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Market-Specific SAP For Wholesale & Distribution
SAP is an optimum Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business software solution for businesses who wish to thrive in a competitive and changing marketplace.
Shwasya SAP offers expertise in Wholesale and Distribution, providing market-specific software and business management solutions that you can rely on for the challenges ahead.
SAP for Wholesale and Distribution
Gain Insight, Drive Up Efficiency
SAP for Wholesale and Distribution is a proven solution for small and mid-market companies who want to see improved customer satisfaction and higher profit margins.
Because our SAP supply and delivery solutions contain all the functionality wholesalers and distributors need in one system, users achieve the following benefits for their supply and delivery needs: |
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Increased efficiency and decreased costs |
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Improved access to information |
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Greater visibility of business performance |
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Faster processing of orders |
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Reduced stock-outs and shrinkage |
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Improved traceability of products |
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Lower inventory levels |
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Improved delivery performance |
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Increasing customer satisfaction |
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More accurate forecasting |
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Better understanding of marketing effectiveness |
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All of which means more competitive pricing, improved field sales productivity and improved responsiveness to your customers.
Meeting the obstacles as a team
In a highly competitive marketplace, wholesale and distribution companies have little room for manoeuvre. To be successful they must differentiate themselves by excelling at customer service and keeping prices competitive.
Excelling at customer service involves a number of factors:
Selecting the right product range is crucial. But beyond this: factors such as avoiding stock-outs, fast delivery, effective returns handling and proactive complaint handling are vital.
Competition on price is high and margins are continually under pressure. Consequently wholesalers and distributors must be constantly looking to optimise their stock holding and make their internal processes, from sales to shipping, purchasing to warehouse management, as streamlined and effective as possible.
Only by doing so can they both minimise inefficiency and increase productivity.
With Shwasya SAPs longstanding experience and expertise in this area, especially for midmarket companies, why not let us meet the challenges of Wholesale and Distribution together.
Seamless Processes
Achieving the twin goals of high customer service and competitive pricing is a tough challenge for smaller wholesale and distribution companies. In some ways their size helps them, because smaller organisations can be more flexible. But, on the other hand, if business processes are fragmented then they will never deliver the efficiencies required.
Just think how efficiency would be improved if orders entered by sales or call centre staff flowed directly through to the warehouse for fulfilment, updated the stock control system, alerted purchasing to potential stock-outs and were automatically sent to the accounting system for invoicing.
How much better would customer service be if sales staff had access to a customer's complete order history, knew the exact stock position at any point in time and could quote based on up-to-date pricing information? How much easier would managing the business be if there was complete visibility of all these transactions and a system in place for reporting when exceptions occurred?
The SAP systems that deliver seamless business processes like these were once the sole preserve of larger companies. The cost was simply prohibitive for small companies.
SAP Wholesale and Distribution means smaller companies can now afford the same functionality as larger companies and gain the benefits of improved customer service and higher margins
SAP Industry Specialists
Your industry specialisation is our industry specialisation:
There was a time when Wholesale & Distribution was a pure trading environment. Companies bought goods, stocked them and sold them on. Warehousing and logistics were the primary functions that had to be managed.
Today's wholesale and distribution companies have different paradigms
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The provision of added value services, such as re-packaging and product assembly. |
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Complex, often global, sourcing arrangements. |
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The provision of added value services, such as re-packaging and product assembly. |
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Increasingly short order to delivery times. |
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Continuous downward pressure on prices from customers. |
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Increasing regulatory requirements for tracing and tracking products and effectively managing product returns. |
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| Having effective warehousing and logistics operations is no longer enough. Wholesale and Distribution companies must have complete visibility of their complex supply chains in order to: |
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Forecast demand more accurately, to avoid stock-outs and schedule resources effectively. |
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Closely match supply and demand, to optimise inventory throughout the supply chain. |
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Improve traceability and tracking, without adding overheads. |
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Improve delivery performance while reducing costs. |
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Cost-effectively manage the reverse supply chain. |
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Increasing regulatory requirements for tracing and tracking products and effectively managing product returns. |
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