Wholesale Distribution
The wholesale industry acts as an important link in the global supply chain and is responsible for distributing most products among business partners around the world. By definition, a wholesaler buys products in bulk from a manufacturer or supplier and sells them to customers at wholesale prices. Customers are often commercial facilities, traders, or retail stores. Wholesalers maintain strong relationships both upstream and downstream in the supply chain. Upstream, retailers maintain relationships with their suppliers. Suppliers are often manufacturers of products that are stocked and distributed by wholesalers. Distributors typically buy goods in bulk from manufacturers and suppliers, disassemble large quantities of goods, store them in distribution centers, and finally at wholesale prices for various companies, contractors, hospitals, restaurants, retailers.
SAP and Partner Technologies for Wholesale
SAP and partner technology solutions allow wholesale vendors to pursue new sales sources, find efficiency opportunities and build differentiating capabilities through digital transformation. These technical solutions are available in the following areas:
The wholesale industry acts as an important link in the global supply chain and is responsible for distributing most products among business partners around the world. By definition, a wholesaler buys products in bulk from a manufacturer or supplier and sells them to customers at wholesale prices. Customers are often commercial facilities, traders, or retail stores. Wholesalers maintain strong relationships both upstream and downstream in the supply chain. Upstream, retailers maintain relationships with their suppliers. Suppliers are often manufacturers of products that are stocked and distributed by wholesalers. Distributors typically buy goods in bulk from manufacturers and suppliers, disassemble large quantities of goods, store them in distribution centers, and finally at wholesale prices for various companies, contractors, hospitals, restaurants, retailers.
SAP and Partner Technologies for Wholesale
SAP and partner technology solutions allow wholesale vendors to pursue new sales sources, find efficiency opportunities and build differentiating capabilities through digital transformation. These technical solutions are available in the following areas:
- Procurement solutions help in areas like buy buying and delivering services, goods procurement, cost recovery, procurement analytics, source and contract, supplier management etc.
- Supply chain planning solutions in wholesale distribution helps distributors with demand management and insights, response and supply planning, sales, inventory and operations planning
- Supply chain execution solutions assist in areas like order promising, logistics network track and trace, transportation management, warehouse and yard management
- Sales and marketing solutions help wholesalers perform commerce personalization, manage customer rebates and incentives better, build omnichannel commerce management capabilities and sales force automation.
- Service solutions help in areas like buy & deliver services, field services management, subscription management, customer experience management etc.
Key Considerations for SAP Organizations
- Building competitive differentiators with SAP S/4HANA– View this webinar on-demand to learn how successful Wholesaler Distributors are using SAP S/4HANA and RISE to address challenges facing the industry and differentiate themselves from the competition.
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Transforming business operations with private cloud– Learn how when GraceKennedy Limited needed to upgrade its infrastructure to support its international expansion and increase its performance and reliability, it turned to the private cloud. The results have delivered significant value to the business and freed its IT personnel to work on higher-level tasks that provide greater impact.
McKesson Ensures Business Continuity While Accelerating Innovation –
– This article highlights how McKesson, a healthcare wholesale distribution company transformed its business operations leveraging SAP technologies.
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