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The wholesale distribution industry has seen sweeping changes as the pressures of consolidation, increased competition from 3PL’s and increasing retail power have meant decreasing profitability and influence for independent distributors.
Even so, there are many areas within the distribution supply chain where revenue enhancement and cost reduction opportunities can be realized through the effective application of modern ERP software.
Solarsoft’s approach focuses on the overriding needs of distributors and wholesalers to deliver:
- Better management information
- More effective sales order processes
- Smarter buying
- Efficient stock/warehouse operations
Solarsoft for Distribution offers industry specific features and customizations critical to particular markets. Whether your need is compliance with Federal food labeling standards, pharmaceutical batch traceability or EU control of substances harmful to health (COSHH), your Distribution software will be configured at installation to meet individual operational requirements.
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Solarsoft’s investment in research and development delivers products that are:
Modern - built for the future using today’s technology standards
Open - connect easily with Excel or other systems to share data
Reliable - validate data to ensure database integrity at every step
Easy to use - have a Windows user interface that is quick and easily learned
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Management Information
Linked to our Management Information Option, our Distribution systems give business owners and managers an instant feel for:
- Margin by product, supplier, sales representative or customer
- Supplier and customer behaviour and performance
- Patterns of sales by product, region or between products
- Stock turn, ageing and outages, cost of carry
- The impact of changes in volume, prices and margins
The Management Information Option summarises operational data on a dashboard that gives an immediate insight into key performance indicators for the business. What’s more, with a few clicks of the mouse, the system allows you to “drill down” to get a detailed line-by-line breakdown of the transactions behind the summary or to export data to Excel for further analysis.
Sales Orders
In creating systems for Distributors our goal is not simply to provide efficient order entry but to maximize the value of each customer contact. Naturally, we support the multiple sales channels essential to a modern distribution business. There’s a web sales option for online account management and tele-sales and e-commerce support with a range of standard EDI mappings for direct order entry. The software provides a complete set of quotation, pricing and delivery options and full recall of order history:
- Rapid entry for prompt service on the phone or at the counter
- Integrated PO generation for back-to-back orders
- Kitting and calculators for light assembly operations
- Full search and histories available with flexible search
- Targeted promotions – up sell, cross-sell and vouchers
Pricing flexibility is built in – but can be controlled product by product to ensure that staff keep to required margins.
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Purchase Orders
Purchasing is completely integrated with ledgers, sales order processing and stock control, offering:
- Efficient order quantity rules and alerts for breaks and promotions
- Comprehensive history and drill down
- Best price/performance – reliability, defects, discounts
- True cost comparisons – freight, stockholding, scrap
Optional clearing system and EDI integration is available for full automation of payments and orders.
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Industry References
Solarsoft has a large and broad customer base in distribution with references across many market segments:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Books and music
- Hotel and catering
- Apparel
- Bicycles and sports
- Food and beverage
- Electrical and electronics
- Industrial supplies
- Leisure products
- Health-care and safety
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Efficient Operations
From basic industrial components to high value electronic parts, Solarsoft for Distribution focuses on efficient operations, timely delivery and precise stock management. Multiple warehouses and optional bin-level stock control are available with full support for a complete range of movements and operations:
- Streamlined GRN operations – orders, returns, goods-in and PO matching
- Forward order stock allocation, contracted delivery schedules and drop shipment and collections
- Wave pick and pack operations with catch weight and label operations
- Lot/batch and serial level traceable stock control
- Sequenced loading at truck and container/pallet level
- Accurate movements using smart wireless devices and perpetual inventory
Large product catalogues are easily maintained and managed using powerful key word search that does not require users to memorise product codes to find items quickly and accurately.
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Featured Customer
Food and Beverage
Hanover Foods - The largest independently-owned food processor in the eastern United States, produces millions of cases of frozen, canned, refrigerated, fresh, glass-packed, snack food, and freeze-dried food items. Hanover Foods meets consumer demands in the retail, food service, fresh home meal replacement, private label, military, |
Technology
Our ERP software for Distribution is available on a selection of vendor platforms giving customer to select the system that best fits the size and style of their operations.
Customers looking for an IBM System i based application will choose iVP. Where Microsoft .Net technology is important the natural choice is mVP. Our cross-platform solution, xVP is available on various flavours of Unix including Linux as well as Windows.
All our platforms offer a common set of core features with a range of SOSA compliant Options that may be purchased over time. Your system can grow and expand with your business.
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All Solarsoft applications are backed by our professional services teams. We will take care of installation, configuration and data upload. And once your system is up and running we will provide training and ongoing service and support.
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