SAP Business One For Wholesale & Distribution Integrated Software to Gain Competitive Advantage in a Complex Business Environment
Introducing SAP Business One Business transformation is essential in the wholesale & distribution industry today. Distributors can reinvent themselves by leveraging technology to optimise their business processes, collaborate closely with their partners, and expand their reach beyond the conventional boundaries. You don’t run a generic business. So why use generic solutions? SAP provides tailored solutions specific to the wholesale & distribution industry. These solutions help you achieve excellent business performance while effectively managing your entire organisation – people, physical assets, business processes, and technology.
Industry Challenges Tight Margins
Competition For Customers
Reduction of Operating Costs
Innovating and Delivering Value to Increase Customer Loyalty
Inventory Management
Managing Service, Warranties, and Maintenance
Eliminating Excess and Dead Stock
Online and Self-Serve Options
Balancing Carrying Costs Against Order Fill Rates Streamlining Warehouse Operations Reducing Shrinkage and Wastage Just-In-Time (JIT), Cross-Docking, and Drop-Shipping
Introducing SAP Business One for Wholesalers and Distributors Integrated business management technology solutions can help wholesale distributors optimise inventory and operations, and enhance profitability by connecting information, people and processes. In addition, this technology can create visibility and transparency within the supply chain, so wholesale distributors can see where a product is, how much of it there is and where the bottlenecks and failure points are in the supply chain.
You can then make more timely decisions about purchasing and replenishment of inventory throughout the supply chain to reduce out-of-stocks while simultaneously reducing inventory and improving time to delivery. SAP Business One for Wholesale & Distribution supports the full range of industry processes – including finance, sales, customer relationship management, purchasing, stock control and warehouse management.
Demand and Supply Planning Includes collaborative forecasting and inventory optimisation,which helps you enhance service levels and decrease capital investments. You can use forecasts for planning and streamlining logistics with our carrier solution.
Procure-to-Pay and Rebate Management Helps you maintain strategic as well as operational relationships with suppliers, including strategic sourcing, purchasing, supplier collaboration, supplier agreement monitoring, and cost recovery.
Supply Chain Execution Includes warehouse and inventory management, inbound and outbound logistics, enabling customs handling, and foreign-trade management, compliance with regulations, and supporting various trading practices.
Order-to-Cash and Chargeback Management Enables you to handle and maintain customer relationships, process orders using different marketing channels, collaborate with customers to manage inventory invoicing and collection activities, and enable chargeback claims processing.
Financials and Analytics Delivers a complete, integrated financial rebate and chargeback management solution to help ensure compliant and accurate accounting and financial reporting.
Industry benefits
Optimised Planning and Logistics Processes
Distributors can bundle orders for optimised,
cost-effective delivery.
Inventory optimisation helps you achieve the
best purchase price from suppliers, which significantly reduces the cost of goods sold.
Improved Profitability It enables you to offer value-added marketing, sales, and financial services. You can use SAP solutions to enable innovative services that provide order and logistics information, New product management, configuration, financing, or repairs.
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You can manage the rebate and chargeback
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credit and dispute management processes.
The integrated business transaction and
billing, and control of agreements.
financial solution improve timeliness and accuracy
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Improved Decision Making By allotting costs based on data in the vendor billing document, the software makes costs noticeable and enables you to evaluate profitability more accurately. Sophisticated business intelligence tools provide deeper insight into business processes, helping you make sound business decisions. Greater insight into wholesale distributors’ customers and suppliers. Which customers or supplers are most profitable? What are each customer’s ordering patterns, revenues, margins, product mix, number of deliveries, costs and their resultant profitability?
Business Benefits of SAP Business One SAP for Wholesale Distribution solutions will suit your business needs whether you are a small business, a midsize company, or a large, multinational enterprise. When you’re ready to grow, the solutions scale with you and support you. These solutions ease the integration processes that are important when growth comes through mergers and acquisitions, helping you smoothly consolidate new systems into your business.
What our Customers Say Shaneel Enterprise - Dilesh Mehta, CEO “We wanted a system that could keep up with every aspect of our rapidly growing business. Silver Touch Technologies and SAP Business One understood our requirements and delivered a solution that improved our efficiency and productivity across all departments. They continue to provide us with up-to-date solutions to match our growing needs, and we look forward to continuing to build on this new relationship.”
The Silver Touch Difference Established in 1992, Silver Touch Technologies has grown to become a leading global provider of ERP and business management solutions. Being an SAP channel partner since 2008, the company has successfully designed and delivered over 100 IT infrastructures with SAP business solutions. As an end-to-end solution provider, Silver Touch Technologies can manage everything required for SAP Business One for Wholesale & Distribution. If you are considering making a step change to SAP or you’re an existing SAP user looking for a partner who can help you maximise your investment, then Silver Touch Technologies can help.
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