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Business Solution for 3rd Party Logistics

Your customers have more options to choose from, and their demands are increasing. New distribution channels are evolving and existing channels are expanding.

How do you keep costs down without compromising on the value of your offering?

When you promote efficient processes, both you and your customers profit.

The 3PL ERP Solution helps you increase efficiency and control costs by pulling together and sharing information from purchasing, warehousing and sales. This full scope solution includes applications for financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, human resource management, project management, and analytics.

Operational Excellence Through Technology
Supporting complex processes with ever smaller profit margins requires both operational agility and tight controls. Small- to medium-size distributors are benefiting from affordable IT infrastructures built around applications from Microsoft® Business Solutions and SYSPRO support more efficient processes. Expanding the use of information technology is the best way to add greater value while supporting more cost-effective operations.

The automation at each touch point—from order capture to inventory replenishment—streamlines the many diverse processes within the distributors’ businesses. Business intelligence becomes cohesive and comprehensive as information is automatically fed to the appropriate applications and processes. This allows distributors to communicate both inside and outside the four walls of the distribution center with key partners and customers.

Rich integration across the distribution processes enables companies to flexibly manage information and materials while controlling costs and performance. The result is a laser-sharp focus on making good decisions throughout the entire operation and on improved customer service.

Improved Supply Chain Processes
Efficient management of the supply chain is essential for meeting customer expectations. A Web-based approach for cross-business communication enables distributors to deal effectively with the different links in an increasingly global supply chain. With a 3PL ERP Solution, your employees will have immediate access to inventory data from any of your company’s or supplier's locations.

Current technology makes it possible to gain a strong position as a low-cost supplier and create additional revenue in the form of supply-chain services. Portals provide visibility into product availability and delivery data, increasing the response time and the accuracy of commitments made across the supply chain. Web-based storefronts with integrated order and inventory management allow customers to order products directly, simplifying the selling process, improving accuracy, and increasing the speed of delivery.

Tighter Inventory Management
Having the right goods in inventory is critical to success in distribution. An out-of-stock situation can mean a lost sale, or even a lost customer. Flexible inventory applications streamline purchasing, order processing, and inventory management, ensuring that goods-on-hand match customer needs. These tightly integrated solutions can include the use of bar codes and scanners which maintain accurate, real-time inventory data and reduce errors.

Critical forecasting and demand planning can also be streamlined with IT applications. Once goods are in stock, software applications enable distributors to make an ABC-analysis of goods based on the quantity sold, sales volume sold, or contribution to margin. Managers can establish parameters to decide when to replenish the product and how much to purchase. The parameters can be determined by account sales and marketing forecasts along with other relevant input contributors.

A more flexible IT environment is especially effective in improving the efficiency of warehouse operations. Warehouse management capabilities optimize layout, picking methods, movement processes, and accuracy to maximize utilization and secure an efficient product flow through the warehouse. Distributors can then rely on order management software to ensure accurate and on-time order fulfillment.

Better Information for Improved Response
Instant access to decision-driving information ensures that all parts of a distribution business run more efficiently, and helps distributors plan for the future with confidence. Flexible computing environments offer distributors a number of ways to get at data, including online inquires, Web-based reporting, customer self-service tools, sophisticated financial consolidation, and OLAP analysis applications.

Providing up-to-date, accurate information to customers is especially critical to the sales team. With automated solutions, the sales team can answer questions on stock availability and pricing with real-time information. Sales order management applications assist in handling multiple channels, as well as facilitating the return of merchandise.

A flexible IT approach can also capture valuable knowledge of customer buying patterns that can be leveraged to build customer responsiveness and loyalty.


Integrated Business Modules:

• Financial Management
  
• Supply Chain Management
  
• Inventory
  
• Management
  
• Manufacturing
  
• Master Planning
  
• CRM
  
• Project
  
• Accounting
  
• Human Resources
  
• Business Analysis
  
• Enterprise Web Portal