Wholesale distribution
Enabling profitable growth through transformation in wholesale distribution
Wholesale distributors are under intense pressure to adapt to rapid change. New technologies help companies transform, protect profit margins, and remain competitive.
Our wholesale distribution software helps you:
Differentiate your brand by offering high-value services
Meet challenging customer delivery demands
Become a trusted partner by providing comprehensive customer solutions
Optimize business operations to help ensure resilience and profitability
Find out how our customers are using wholesale distribution software from SAP
Innovative wholesale distribution software from SAP and our partners
Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth using solutions tailored to the specific needs of the wholesale distribution industry.
Ready-to-run cloud ERP
Optimize processes, increase agility, and improve product and service quality with our intelligent, cloud-based ERP.
Fast, flexible planning
Create flexible supply network plans and match supply to demand while mitigating disruptions and evaluating strategies.
Business resilience
Prepare for unexpected events and manage shortage situations efficiently while improving service levels, lead times, and stock levels.
Transparency from demand to delivery
Plan across your supply network in real time and evaluate your parts inventory based on part volume, velocity, segment, and more.
Collaboration networks
Eliminate siloed, manual processes across your supply chain and work with partners on planning, inventory, and quality management.
Procurement visibility
Consolidate your data into a single system to centralize control of requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, contracts, and analytics.
Sustainable savings
Manage spend more strategically and achieve new savings by discovering and selecting qualified suppliers from a broad supplier network.
Spend visibility
Facilitate near real-time information-sharing and enhanced visibility into procurement processes to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
Streamlined chargeback processing
Administer, model, report, and analyze contracts and chargeback agreements while preventing errors and profit leakage.
Integrated warehouse operations
Manage high-volume warehouse operations and integrate with complex logistics processes to deliver high levels of visibility and control.
Transportation management
Maximize the return on your spend on transportation and domestic shipping across transportation modes and verticals.
Global track and trace
Get actionable, real-time insights into inbound and outbound shipments to drive performance and customer satisfaction.
Yard logistics
Maximize your visibility into yard processes and preview planned workloads with a range of visualization and reporting tools.
E-commerce
Create connected, insightful, and adaptive e-commerce experiences on a feature-rich and scalable technology foundation.
Omnichannel customer engagement
Meet customers where they are with what they want, and produce measurable results with real-time, scalable personalization.
Asset performance management
Minimize asset failure risk by using AI to make better maintenance decisions, analyzing sensor data and monitoring equipment remotely.
Product pricing, configuring, and quotes
Empower your sales team and partners to offer complex product configurations, optimized pricing, and great-looking proposals.
Explore how we can help your wholesale distribution business run better
Our wholesale distribution industry software can help you run your business profitably while driving new growth through innovation.
Business transformation
Deploy a modular ERP solution with the AI and analytics capabilities to support industry best practices and continuous innovation.
Cross-channel order management
Provide a smooth customer experience with a single, user-based, and configurable solution across your sales channels.
Price optimization
Account for factors that influence price, measure elasticity, and align prices with business rules to produce optimized price guidance.
Sales planning and performance
Automate complex sales plans, gain real-time insights, and motivate sales teams for enhanced performance and business growth.
Subscription-based services
Monetize transformation and grow recurring revenues through high-volume subscription billing and entitlement management.
Customer identity and consent management
Handle customer identity, consent, and authentication using a unified profile, providing a smooth customer experience.
Sustainability
Record, report, and act on sustainability goals to help your wholesale distribution business reduce waste, emissions, and inequality.
Artificial intelligence
See how AI embedded in our distribution management software boosts efficiency and optimizes business outcomes – responsibly.
Resources
Delivering growth with technology and innovation
Learn from Oxford Economics how midsize wholesale distribution companies are working to achieve continued and sustained growth.
Building a profitable, growth-oriented business
See how our distribution management software supports sustainable and profitable wholesale distribution businesses.
Supply chain planning in wholesale distribution
See how innovative technologies can provide vital information, enabling better collaboration across departments.
Achieving procurement excellence
Manage global supply risk, protect profitability, and contribute new innovations to your wholesale distribution business.
Optimizing supply chain execution
Make efficient order fulfillment decisions, optimize warehouse operations, and align distribution and fulfillment.
Marketing and sales in wholesale distribution
Engage more closely with customers and give sales teams the insights needed to accelerate productivity and sales performance.
Improving service in wholesale distribution
Connect service teams with the right expertise and provide value-added services to increase field technician productivity.
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Road map for wholesale distribution solutions
Explore how our innovations can help your wholesale distribution company thrive in a fast-changing landscape.
Join the wholesale distribution community
Engage with the community in discussions about solutions and topics impacting wholesale distribution.