Wholesale and Distribution

Industry Expertise

At one time the Wholesale & Distribution market was a pure trading environment. Companies bought, stocked and sold goods and storage and logistics were the key tasks. The wholesale and distribution companies of the 21st century must operate under very different parameters, some of which are shown below:

Supplying added value services, as, for example, re-packaging and product assembly

Managing multifaceted and often global, sourcing agreements

Responding to increasingly short order to delivery times

Fielding the unremitting customer pressure to lower prices

Managing the mounting regulations that pertain to tracing and tracking products and handling product returns

Although wholesalers work hard to create profits and growth, shrinking margins, higher costs and more competition, has caused many to embrace value added services as a way of improving customer loyalty; and key business processes are being outsourced in an effort to lower costs.

Competition can be expected to continue to grow thereby forcing wholesalers to find more and more ways to simplify and downsize internal infrastructures in order to achieve the operational excellence on which customers insist. Merely having superior warehousing and logistics operations will not guarantee success. The complex supply chains characteristic of today's Wholesale and Distribution companies require total visibility so that companies can:

predict demand more accurately to avoid stock outs and schedule resources effectively

match supply and demand meticulously so inventory can be used to advantage anywhere in the supply chain

better traceability and tracking without adding overhead

improve delivery performance and, at the same time, lower costs

apply cost effective controls to the reverse supply chain

What does all this mean? Warehousing & Distribution companies, be they large or small, must have business applications that will let them deal with ever more complicated supply chains efficiently, effectively and, with the greatest possible profits.

Sapphire can help you improve your business processes to make your business more agile. We offer solutions that will help you to:

Respond to growing demand for faster turnaround times without adding extra headcount.

Have the latest supply chain data so decision making is improved

Standardize the business processes used by your entire organization

Improve delivery times and inventory management

Decrease expenses by improving financial, sales, procurement and warehousing processes

Apply real time profitability reporting to departments, subsidiaries, sales, product lines and customers

Improve traceability and quality control

Save time and effort in the event of product recalls

For more information on the solutions that can fulfil these requirements please visit our products and solutions section.

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