The problem Buho solves

The Indian economy heavily relies on its medium and small scale vendors -or the MSME Sector. A dominant class in the market, the importance of this sector is cemented by the recent investments done in it by the Government of India to ease the pandemic stricken class of the largest vendors, merchants and small scale industries and businesses.

Although a substantial number of operations happen in this class-when it comes to logistics and management at a planned level, it is almost non-existent -be it because of lack of resources, or lack of general know-how.

Now some apps claim to resolve this issue and bridge the gap of B2B logistics for MSMEs, the heavier consideration in those apps lean towards payments and payment gateways, where sellers and businesses can keep a consolidated log of incoming and outgoing monetary expenditures, there is little or no functionality for inventory management and monitoring.

Buho introduces the concept of a complete inventory management solution to medium and small scale vendors. With just a few taps away, your entire store logistics, ranging from a comprehensive catalogue management to incoming and outgoing inventory from the warehouse.
Buho uses Machine learning to classify objects into categories categories, so you do not have to manually enter each and every product detail. Just point your camera at the product, and Buho will do the job for you. No intricate mumbo jumbo.

Moreover, future updates plan to integrate a dynamic budgeting option -giving a vendor power to track their bulk budget, and alerts on a depleting inventory.

Everything is customizable extremely customizable, so you need not worry about a wrong entry. Just go into settings, and change whatever you need to.

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So welcome Buho - efficiency redefined for every business.

Challenges we ran into

A problem faced by us was the integration of ML into our project. Since it was a new concept for us, but we were still unable to integrate it.

Another challenge we ran into was pushing data into Firebase and avoiding a data loop, which took us some time to figure out.

Navigating the logged-in user to the home screen as well as creating product profiles for each user discreetly (so as to avoid multi-user access of the same data) was something that took some time to be figured out too.