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SAP Business One for Wholesale Distribution

Business Benefits

  • Streamline order-to-cash process through automated supply and distribution chain.
  • Reduce costs through optimized inventory management – reduced excess supply or waste, paper work, and costly shipping errors
  • Improve profit margins with efficient quoting and improve decision making through greater visibility into the true costs of orders.
  • Increase customer satisfaction through faster and more accurate order processing.

As a wholesale distribution company, you likely face unrelenting competitive pressure to keep prices low and to increase volume, and that means being on a constant lookout for ways to improve margins and grow revenue. This requires greater focus on reducing operating expenses and cutting costs throughout the order-to-cash process, managing inventory more efficiently, and integrating operations more tightly with your customers and suppliers.

SAP Business One software can help you manage this balancing act by streamlining your entire order-to-cash process and providing clear visibility into inventory levels, order status, supplier schedules, and customer demands.

Inventory Planning and Forecasting for SAP Business One

Key benefits:

  • Reduction of investment in held inventory by an average of 20%

  • Reduction in purchase planning time of up to 85%

If you could reduce your held inventory by 20% how much cash could you free up? 

Inventory Planner for SAP Business One is a next generation inventory forecasting and planning tool that will forever change the way you plan your inventory. It enables you to forecast, plan, and optimize inventory with less effort and more accuracy. And the module is affordable, fast, and easy to use. It is a smart system and does the complex computations for you.

Inventory Planner determines which items to stock, which items to order, and which items are excess or overstocked. It manages an unlimited number of items and locations, and provides flexibility while different planning parameters allow more precise planning. Inventory Planner helps you manage by exception. The software's intelligence provides "Alerts" of potential problems, before they occur... saving you valuable time and assisting you to avoid potentially serious Customer Satisfaction problems.

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Advanced Warehouse Management for SAP Business One

Advanced Warehouse Management delivers a powerful, scalable and flexible real-time warehouse management system that helps you boost productivity, reduce costs, shorten order fulfillment times and increase customer satisfaction. Advanced Warehouse Management integrates seamlessly with the SAP Business One core package to provide the warehousing link in a total supply chain solution. Advanced Warehouse management offers a feature-rich solution to automate, streamline and verify all your in-warehouse processes. From the receiving dock to the shipping dock, advanced warehouse managment tracks every movement of stock into, out of, and within the warehouse.

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Key Benefits

  • Average reduction in warehouse staff costs of 20% in a 12-18 month period
  • Typical pick accuracy of 99.9%

User examples:

PLUM Products - Before implemenatation SAP Bsuiness One warehouse management they were employing 10 temps in seasonal peaks, after implementation they were able to manage seasonal peaks without the need for temps.

GLOPAC - Before implementation SAP Business One warehouse management they were running 2 shifts of 12 staff, after implementation they were able to reduce this to 1 shift of 12 staff whilst still growing revenues.

 

Wholesale Distribution Solutions

For wholesale distribution companies we recomend the following solutions:

SAP Business One >>
Adv. Warehouse Management >>
Inventory Forecasting >>