Distribution

 

Distribution Services

 

How Templeton Solutions Improves Business Processes

You will succeed in the distribution industry with financial, process, and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Deploying these flexible solutions can give your company a significant competitive advantage by helping to: meet customer demands more effectively, lower the cost of operations, and improve information.

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Critical Issues

Distributors’ results are closely tied to their ability to market effectively and run an efficient operation. Their margins are sometimes razor-thin and without an automated operation, they are working at a disadvantage. Distributors have to possess the capabililty to track orders, trends, inventory and margins. They also have to be able to accurately fill orders. In addition, they need to be able to work with sometimes thousands of vendors that represent the products that make the distributor successful. In turn, for many of their vendors, the distributor represents one of their largest direct customers.

The distributor’s ability to forecast upturns and downturns in revenue affect their use of spending power and their own employment. Without automation, it’s difficult for them to forecast properly and to act quickly.

Key Drivers

Demand is driven by cyclical business needs and the health of the economy. Distributors need to be concerned about new competitors and the marketing capabilities of existing players. Original manufacturers do work with distributors to merchandise their products and run promotions to increase sell-through. The ability to turn inventory is a key indicator in assessing the operating health of a distributor.

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Distribution Companies Benefit from Templeton Solutions

Supply chain management

  • Manage all parts of the process.

  • Trace raw materials through all stages.

  • Provide product availability and delivery time through a Web portal.

Inventory management

  • Maintain real-time data.

  • Reduce errors with bar codes and scanners.

  • Optimize layout, picking methods, and movement processes.

  • Ensure on-time order fulfillment.

  • Use critical forecasting to plan for future needs.

Business intelligence and analysis

  • Provide easy access to all critical information.

  • Take advantage of online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.

Financial management

  • Improve efficiencies with automated transaction processing and payment adjustments.

  • Enhance financial controls with complete audit control.

  • Organize financial information with flexible accounting structures.

  • Create Excel-based budget templates.

  • Perform dimensional analysis of financial, sales, and purchase transactions.

  • Build refreshable reports for delivery to decision-makers.

  • Simplify payables/receivables management.