Achieving operational excellence for wholesale distribution businesses can be challenging.
Operationally excellent distributors are using ERP to tackle disintermediation in their industries by setting up business strategies that allow them to be more effective, consistent, and react quicker to disruption.
Understanding the flow of value to customers is the key to achieving operational excellence
Being stuck in the middle of the supply chain between manufacturers and commercial customers, wholesale distributors have seen margins erode due to changing market conditions and the targeted reduction intermediaries from both ends of the supply chain.
Mapping the flow of value via customer experience is what many distributors are doing to improve operating profits.
Key benefits of utilising ERP to reach operational excellence
Reduce your operating costs by minimising errors in quoting, fulfilment, and operations
Improve sales forecasting accuracy with product configurator and available to promise
Increase working capital efficiency with demand planning and supply chain management
Klugo Solution Map for Wholesale Distribution
Klugo’s end-to-end solution supports wholesale distributors to increase margins whilst lowering costs and freeing resources to offer a high-quality service. By achieving operational excellence, you can offer a flow of value to your customers at both ends of the ever-changing supply chain.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution like NetSuite for wholesale distribution measurably improves your operating performance giving you an advantage in a crowded marketplace. With one system, you can manage your entire customer journey, improve your decision-making, and grow your business.
Enterprise Resource Planning
With distribution ERP software you can manage logistics operations as well as front- and back-office activities. Determine product demand and ensure that you deliver on time. Control all your inventory, warehousing, and logistics in one place.
Report product level gross margin contribution in your financial reports. Manage your business with financial, operational and customer metrics on one page.
Track and correlate integrated operational business intelligence key performance indicators like inventory turn, shrinkage, working capital, day sales outstanding (DSO) and returns.
From quote to fulfilment with integrated freight. Supports 3PL and multi address shipping from.
Project management and accounting for installations. Job and service contracts profitability.
Purchasing and supplier performance reporting. Demand planning with sales order and promotional campaign forecast.
Directed put away, wave and batch picking. Serial and lot tracking. Multi-location hierarchical distribution replenishment.
By implementing ERP technology, distributors seeking to be operationally excellent can take a data-driven look at their processes and identify bottlenecks and redundant activities, maximising inventory turns and Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment (GMROI).
