Growing Customer Trust through Inventory Control
This white paper is designed to help growth-minded distributors nurture customer trust through expanded inventory control via ERP business software.
Building the Business Case for ERP
Executive Summary “If you build it, they will come…” to understand the importance of ERP! The World Series cannot be won by throwing nine random players onto a field. Putting together a winning team involves research, planning, and investment. For distributors and wholesalers, the same holds true in the case of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) … Continued
ERP System Fuels Success Through Increased Productivity
Unclouding Cloud – Enhanced ERP
Turning Around Your Inventory Turnover
Distribution One: Intelligent ERP software for specialized distributors
ERP software for distributors that need practical inventory control, sales visibility, and business management tools that are easy to adopt and built for distribution.
- 25 percent reduction in inventory asset value.
- 400 percent increase in pick and pack efficiency and 99.8 percent inventory accuracy.
- Sales more than doubled over roughly 5 years with flat staffing, and a 500K dollar increase in sales per employee.
Trusted by hundreds of wholesalers and distributors in North America and Europe:
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Comprehensive ERP Software for Distributors and Wholesalers
Distribution One helps distributors unify sales, inventory, purchasing, warehouse, accounting, and reporting workflows so teams can operate from one accurate source of business truth.
Process orders and fulfillment seamlessly across multiple warehouses and multiple sales channels with Distribution One’s order management feature. Interconnected order management functionality relies on the instant availability of all relevant data (like customer status, inventory availability, and item pricing) to streamline and automate the ordering process while reducing costly manual errors. Our solution includes:
- Sales Order Entry
- Sales Analysis and Reporting
- Item Sales and Contract Pricing
Know exactly what is in your warehouse(s), where it is located, and when it needs to be replenished with Distribution One. With accurate inventory data at your fingertips, Distribution One can help you make inventory decisions to avoid stockouts and dead stock, improve order fulfillment, and reduce order cycle times. Our inventory and warehouse management functionality includes:
- Inventory Replenishment
- Wireless Warehouse+
- Kitting/Assembly
Unify your companywide financial processes with leading-edge financial management functionality in Distribution One. Our robust, user-friendly accounting software includes the features necessary to manage income, expenses, and physical assets, from cash management to invoicing. Our flexible General Ledger system helps maintain accurate financial information in order to deliver insights needed to prevent errors, support management decisions, and maximize profits. Solution highlights include:
- General Ledger
- Cash Management
- Vendor and Accounts Payable
- Invoicing and Billing
For distributors and wholesalers looking to expand sales opportunities through a user-friendly online storefront, Distribution One offers a complete eCommerce platform. Our integrated eCommerce solution connects directly with Distribution One software to support fast order processing, display live inventory availability and pricing, view open and backorder items, and much more. To serve the needs of distributors of every size, Distribution One’s eCommerce provides a range of functionality options, including:
- Intuitive menus and product search autocomplete
- Mobile responsive layout
- Live list and contract pricing views
- Live availability and live history
- Complementary items and swatches
- Salesperson login
- Self-service customer and vendor portals
Stay engaged with changing customer needs and build stronger relationships with integrated CRM. Distribution One provides the platform you need to track your sales pipeline, close deals, support your sales team, and manage customer and prospect relationships.
Ensure your needed products are on hand with the help of Distribution One’s purchasing and automated replenishment functionality. Our solution relies on accurate, real-time data to deliver special customer requests, suggested inventory replenishment, and inventory linking. Interconnected data and on-demand reports help take the guesswork out of procurement.
Drive Company-Wide Efficiency with Advantive
Distribution One is a feature-rich ERP solution designed to help growing wholesalers and distributors reduce costs, automate operations, and quickly adjust to current market trends based on real-time information. As part of the Advantive family, we continue to provide support and make ongoing software features and enhancements that add value for our customers.
Expand Your Distribution Process Functionality
Distribution One is a customizable ERP solution that can be tailored to fit your unique distribution industry and functional requirements. You can choose from a selection of supplemental software integrations, including:
- Integrated eCommerce
- Credit Card Processing
- Amazon Connectivity for Distributors
- Mobile Applications
- Shipping Integrations
- Sales Tax Compliance Automation
- EDI Services
- API Services
- SFP-AP Platform
Case Study
Colorado Industrial Packaging Increases Profit Margin by 4%
Learn how an industrial distributor and supplier accurately tracks inventory and saves product costs with Distribution One ERP software.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
- Discover what products best fit your needs
- No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch
Dynamic Inventory Management Software for Manufacturers and Distributors
- Improve operational efficiency with reliable manufacturing and distribution inventory management software.
- Automate error-prone manual processes like stock tracking and inventory counts.
- Increase profit margins with real-time inventory reporting and accurate forecasting.
Synchronize Inventory and Demand Across Your Supply Chain
Effective inventory management streamlines the ordering process and save costs by balancing inventory levels with customer demand. At Advantive, we offer specialized manufacturing and distribution inventory management software to accurately track and manage items along all stages of your supply chain—from raw materials to finished goods.
Increase Efficiency with Manufacturing and Distribution Inventory Management Software
Take control of your supply chain with Advantive’s scalable inventory management software tailored to fit manufacturers and distributors of all sizes and complexities. Our proven solutions are designed to monitor inventory, categorize products, automate data entry transactions, improve inventory turnover, and reduce operational costs.
Lot tracking is an important function used by manufacturers and distributors to manage the location and movement of inventory more effectively. Our inventory management solutions include specialized lot traceability functionality that provides the real-time visibility required to save costs and increase product quality. Our software allows you to run a simple inquiry to show the on-hand quantity, the manufacturer’s lot number, the purchase order number, the date purchased or received, the country of origin, compliance certifications, commodity codes, and harmonized tariff codes from a specific lot.
To combat variable supply and demand, Advantive offers comprehensive purchase order functionality with our inventory management software. From real-time replenishment calculation to interactive purchasing dashboards, your purchasing staff will be able to respond quickly to customer demand as it is occurring. This allows them to:
- Identify and correct unusual demand
- Plan for recurring orders
- Optimize seasonal, sporadic, and slow-moving product shifts
- Re-balance warehouse overstocks
- Get real-time vendor purchase summaries
Turn purchasing managers into inventory control experts with Advantive’s demand forecasting tools. With powerful forecasting algorithms and intelligent demand analysis, our inventory management solutions identify unusually high or low product demand outliers and suggest a correction to the forecasted demand for that product, allowing you to accept, adjust, or reject the correction. They also include the ability to:
- Increase inventory turns and order fill rates
- Categorize products into recurring, sporadic and seasonal demand types
- Automatically suppress products with slowing demand
- Easily adjust your inventory overstock criteria
Regular monitoring of products, processes, and quality control provides the insight you need to keep your manufacturing and distribution business running smoothly. Advantive’s inventory management solutions include real-time data collection and configurable reporting functionality to help you easily view stock levels, availability, ‘in-transit’ status, open orders, purchase orders, backorders, branch transfers, and returned goods on one easy-to-read screen. With advanced business intelligence and accurate insight at your fingertips, you will be able to make smarter business decisions, respond to changing demands, and maximize your ROI.
With Kiwiplan MES software, we have created plant-specific business rules and customized the solution to fit our exact paper packaging needs. It has helped us increase visibility across all facilities and stay competitive in difficult market conditions.
Thomas M. Herlihy
Executive Vice President
Kiwiplan provides us with the visibility and critical information we need to analyze and determine profitability at the item level. This accurate flow of information from customer service to the factor floor has also helped us eliminate costly mistakes and identify potential problems sooner.
Brad Albright
President and CEO
Distribution One actually helps our business be more productive. We operate our warehouse more efficiently because our software performs like a world-class product. And that’s not marketing hype. We trust in its reliability. It is one of the best decisions our company has ever made!
Vernon Achgill
General Manager
What Our Customers Are Saying
Find out how our customers are lowering costs and driving sustainable growth with effective inventory management software.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
- Discover what products best fit your needs
- No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch
Distribution Supply Chain Management (SCM) Software To Boost Efficiency and Productivity
- Improve margins with real-time visibility across procurement, warehousing, and delivery.
- Automate order fulfillment and logistics with industry-specific tools built for distributors that minimize costs and waste.
- Eliminate manual workarounds and processes with an integrated platform that adapts to your workflows and operations.
Gain a Competitive Advantage in Distribution Supply Chain and Logistics
In the face of continued supply chain uncertainty, visibility is more critical than ever. Advantive’s problem-solving SCM systems focus on data and automation to streamline complex scheduling and inventory processes, optimize visibility, improve quality, and increase profit margins. Whether managing a high-volume warehouse, fulfilling orders across regions, or optimizing procurement, our connected systems give you the speed, visibility, and control needed to run your operations more efficiently and profitably.
Prevent Disruptions and Streamline Operations with an Integrated Supply Chain Risk Management Solution Backed by Experts.
As experts in specialty distribution software, Advantive’s market-leading ERP integrated supply chain risk management software functionality quickly tailors to fit your needs. Our end-to-end technology delivers sustainable growth by optimizing resources, identifying potential supply chain disruptions, and eliminating waste. From raw materials and quality products to packaging and delivery, our products ensure process automation, quality control, and maximized revenue.
An organization’s ability to better plan its inventory creates leaner supply chain environments, freeing up cash flow and decreasing overhead costs. Our SCM software leverages advanced demand forecasting and intelligent demand analysis to help you accurately predict inventory flows, evaluate recurring and seasonal demand, and project future demand.
Effective procurement is an integral component of supply chain management software, and when done accurately, it gives you an edge over your competitors. Our SCM systems include the real-time data insights and required purchasing, sourcing, and automated replenishment functionality you need to acquire the necessary materials to operate profitably and maintain strong vendor relationships.
Process orders and fulfillment seamlessly across multiple warehouses and sales channels with Advantive’s SCM for distribution software. Designed to smooth the entire quote-to-cash processes and reduce lead times, our solutions include critical functionality to automate the order process, eliminate errors, increase your speed-of-sale, and scale as volume increases.
From wireless warehousing to picking and shipments, Advantive offers advanced warehouse management systems (WMS) to help you monitor and maintain the movement of materials within your warehouse(s). Our SCM solutions include flexible warehouse management functionality to help you keep inventory in check, build efficient delivery routes, track multiple PO container shipments, and automate workflows and warehouse activities.
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What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
- Discover what products best fit your needs
- No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch
All-in-One Distribution ERP Systems to Connect Your Core Processes
- Take control and optimize your entire supply chain and operations with unified ERP software built for distributors and retailers.
- Reduce errors and operating costs by automating time-consuming and error-prone manual processes.
- Realize rapid value and ROI with modern distribution software that delivers complete operational visibility and instant access to real-time data.
Manage Your Entire Distribution Business in One Place
Are you struggling to scale your distribution operations with entry-level accounting software or unintegrated point systems? Whether you are a regional or global distributor, ERP software connects and streamlines the people, processes, and data across your entire organization. Our retail and distribution ERP software solutions provide a complete business management system that centralizes financials, sales, inventory, fulfillment, and industry-specific requirements into a single platform.
Optimize Performance with Financial ERP Software Purpose-Built for Retail and Distribution
Advantive’s mission-critical retail and distribution ERP solutions are specifically designed to add value along the entire distribution lifecycle. User-friendly and fully customizable, our scalable software serves various distribution-based industries. It utilizes business process automation, seamless integration, and real-time data to optimize supply chains, control quality, forecast sales orders, simplify pricing, and more.
Gain a 360-degree view of your business financials with Advantive’s retail and distribution ERP software solutions. Our world-class systems help you gather accurate financial data and keep your general ledger, balance sheets, and integral financial statements organized and up to date, without manual workarounds.
- Simplified and easy-to-use financial reporting
- Seamless bank reconciliation
- Built-In compliance with automated audit trails
Proper inventory management is the cornerstone of a retailer’s and distributor’s success. Our proven ERP solutions include advanced inventory and warehouse management functionality to smooth supply chain operations, simplify complex scheduling, optimize resource utilization, and ensure complete control over inventory levels. With powerful demand forecasting, real-time replenishment, and more, Advantive can help you combat variable supply and demand while maximizing your margins.
Our distribution ERP solutions provide a centralized database to easily track and organize important customer, employee, and vendor information. With instant access to accurate data and increased collaboration between departments, your employees can complete tasks, close deals, communicate with customers, and process orders quickly and easily.
Eliminate guesswork and make informed decisions based on actual business data. Our distribution ERP solutions include the financial and operational reporting and analytics capabilities you need to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze workflows, maintain compliance, track business performance, and support strategic decision making.
Industry-Tailored Retail and Distribution ERP Functionality
Manufacturing Industry Functionality:
At Advantive, we deliver specialized software with industry best practices built in, rather than a ‘one-size-fits-all’ option. All of our ERP solutions are responsive to the nuances of distribution businesses and can be tailored to fit your unique requirements. Here are some highlights of the functional features available:
- Order Management
- Warehouse Management
- Procurement
- EDI and eCommerce integration
Distribution One actually helps our business be more productive. We operate our warehouse more efficiently because our software performs like a world-class product. And that’s not marketing hype. We trust in its reliability. It is one of the best decisions our company has ever made!
Vernon Achgill
General Manager
DDI System allows us to easily see at all times what we have on-hand, making it so much easier to keep accurate levels consistently and not rely on an annual inventory event.
Connecticut Longaker
Director of Operations
We have realized a very quick return on our investment with DDI System. The payoff in fine tuning our operations, data transparency, and ease of use has been astonishing over the first 18 months!
Bob Pontes
Operations Manager
What Our Customers Are Saying
Find out what some of our long-term ERP customers have to say about our highly configurable manufacturing and distribution ERP solutions.
Speak to a Distribution ERP Systems Expert
What to Expect
- Free 20-minute call with a product expert
- Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
- Discover what products best fit your needs
- No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch