Avanade ERP for Wholesale Distribution

Avanade has expanded its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for finance, business intelligence, human resources and customer relationship management (CRM) with a solution for wholesale distribution, enabling wholesale distributors to become more agile, improve collaboration, streamline operations and focus more on their customers.

Built on the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform, Avanade ERP for Wholesale Distribution aims to help wholesale distributors improve efficiencies in order processing and warehousing, forecasting, pricing and rebate management to manage the inventory life cycle and improve customer service.

The solution comes with industry best practices embedded in predefined business processes that provide greater visibility into the supply chain across multiple companies and sites, allowing businesses to optimise end-to-end business processes and smooth supply chain operations.

Key features and benefits include: visibility and real-time insight into the entire business supply chain; compliance and workflow support; streamlined order processing and warehousing to improve supply chain efficiencies, forecasting for optimised collaboration with supply chain partners; customer segmentation and rebate management tools offering the ability to drive more profit with differentiated pricing and service offerings; and increased customer satisfaction with the ability to deliver improved flexibility in pricing, service levels, product availability, delivery performance and ordering options.