Financial Services

WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION

All-In-One Solution for Wholesale Distribution

This SAP Qualified All-in-One Solution significantly upgrades the performance of wholesale distributors. It is an affordable option for clients seeking a world-class solution tailored for their industry – and a fast implementation at a defined price.

The Value Proposition for the SAP qualified Wholesale Distribution solution ,is an ERP application that improves performance, increases revenue and lowers cost, enabling wholesale distributors to overcome key industry challenges.

Product Description

The Solution (Vision, Velocity, Value) is based on the latest SAP baseline release V6.0. This world-class solution is a fully-configured SAP product, based on proven industry best practices. Cambridge provides full implementation and support services.

KEY BENEFITS OF THE SOLUTION:

Decreased total cost of ownership (TCO)
Improved labor efficiency
Reduced monthly financial closing cycle time
Decreased days-sales-outstanding (DSO) cycle
Reduced enterprise operating costs
Improved inventory turns
Reduced overall IT budget by consolidating to one system
Reduced software upgrade and maintenance expenses

Differentiators
A complete Solution for the mid-market wholesale distributor can generally be implemented at a defined price in a set time frame, depending on the customer’s circumstances. We deliver a complete solution at the lowest possible total cost.

Not a generic ERP implementation; it is a specific support platform for wholesale
Based upon the best performance and operational practices of hundreds of wholesale distributors

Implementation Options

Rapid implementation, scoped for low risk, short time line and low cost, based on industry best practices, generally in 16 weeks
On-site demonstrations and rapid fit/gap blueprints help save time
Rapid business case with costs and benefits for board-level validation provided by the Cambridge
Add-on components and services tailored to the client’s needs
Hosting of implementation and production environments can be provided locally
Application maintenance services
Financing options are locally available

A Single Platform for Greater Business Effectiveness and Flexibility

From managing your supply chain and warehouse operations to financial accounting, the SAP solution provides a single integrated platform that solves the vexing problems posed by multiple vendors and heterogeneous IT environments. The Solution improves wholesalers’ and distributors’ daily procure to-pay and order-to-cash processes with new wholesale specific functionality for purchase order and sales order processing, warehouse management, inventory tracking, finance, and controls. You get the reporting, logistics, and financial capabilities you need to provide customers and suppliers with value-added services. In addition, you gain comprehensive profitability analytics capability to boost operational excellence across the entire supply chain

THE SOLUTION ADDRESSES

Sales order processing – With powerful support for ordertocash processes, you can quickly deliver customer-specific orders. Additional capabilities include capturing sales contracts, performing credit checks and holds, third party drop-ship orders, electronic data interchange (EDI) support, availability checking, returns processing, and billing procedures.
Financial processing and performance monitoring – To help analyze performance, the system compiles real-time product and vendor data. Reporting features unlock the visibility and responsiveness necessary for wholesale distribution initiatives – with additional support for accounting practices, general ledger processing, and month end close processing.
Procurement processing and materials management – As the market trends toward outsourcing, consolidation, and collaborative distribution, accurate planning, tighter collaboration, and real-time visibility across the supply chain become mission-critical. The system offers additional support for EDI transactions, purchase order quantity optimization, supplier contracts management, supplier volume incentive agreements, and three-way invoice matching.
Warehouse management – Lowering the cost of goods sold requires strong logistics planning and execution. The solution supports the key processes in this endeavor: picking, packing, posting, goods issue and goods receipt, shipping documents management- plus physical inventories and cycle counts as well as returns-to vendor. These capabilities set the stage for established processes that can be leveraged across all warehouses in the future.

SAP Best Practices
Based on years of experience working with companies in wholesale distribution, SAP has developed an understanding of the industry best practices you need to maintain competitive advantage. Our consulting and implementation services help you configure your SAP software to speed up the implementation and scope it properly to meet your needs as a midsize company. You get fast time to benefit, with a 16-week implementation that supports the following core business processes:

Supply chain planning and execution
Procure to Pay
Supply chain execution
Order to cash
Value-added services
Financial and management accounting with profitability analysis

You also have the option of augmenting the baseline package described above with additional functionality from the SAP ERP application, including business processes and tools specific to wholesale distribution. Today, more than 1,000 wholesale distribution companies – including industry leaders such as AZWELL Inc. in Japan, the BayWa Group in Germany, and McKesson Corporation in the United States – use SAP expertise, support for best practices, and solutions to manage their businesses.

RAPID IMPLEMENTATION AT A FIXED PRICE
Like all business people, you face the challenges of streamlining operations, enhancing efficiencies, and reducing overall costs. At a midsize company, however, you’re also constrained by time, budgets, and IT resources. That’s why Cambridge offers a predefined pricing structure tied to a phased implementation approach. By clearly defining the SAP software configuration and settings needed to address your specific challenges, Cambridge can articulate the scope of each implementation phase in exact terms. This streamlined implementation strategy minimizes disruptions to your business while maximizing enterprise wide adoption. Furthermore, each phase of the implementation delivers immediate business value for a high overall return on your investment and a low total cost of ownership.

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