Distribution Industry ERP

How Sage ERP X3 helps the Distribution industry

Meeting your main challenges and managing your supply chain includes:

• Striking a balance between demand and supply planning,whilst minimising inventory levels: Sage ERP X3 for Distribution factors in your sales forecasts and offers a powerful replenishment planning engine.
• Maintaining a healthy operating margin: to keep a tight rein on distribution costs, Sage ERP X3 for Distribution boasts extensive management control functionality covering such areas as budgeting, estimated sales and actual sales at both at summary and detail levels.
• Improving customer service: leveraging optimisation and collaborative tools, Sage ERP X3 for Distribution is your gateway to improved customer relations to help you to deliver the levels of product and service quality demanded by customers.
• Visibility and multi-site interoperability: Sage ERP X3 for Distribution provides a multi-site and multi-company architecture, with the automated movement of goods and services between different sites and companies to guarantee a fast response to any unforeseen incidents.

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Functionality Tailored to Your Needs

Sage ERP X3 offers advanced distribution, warehousing, customer relationship management (CRM), and accounting functionality with application features that address the unique and specialized needs of your company. The following are critical areas in helping you to control costs and better service customers:

• Robust warehouse management system (WMS) capabilities, scalable to accommodate the size and complexity of each facility
• Integrated sales, inventory, purchasing, CRM and accounting
• Comprehensive pricing, promotion, and contract management features
• Flexible demand planning and inventory replenishment techniques
• Advanced order fulfillment and inventory allocation procedures
• RFdatacollection
• Complete shipping, routing and carrier compliance solutions available

Available in multiple languages and legislations, the system enables users to access the system in their own language wherever they are. It also centralizes country-specific parameters, such as legal and market requirements, to offer a single global solution.

KEY FEATURES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIES

Inventory

• Multi-level warehousing: location, lot and sub lot control
• Forward and backward lot traceability
• Product serialization
• Shelf life management with expiration date control
• Movements and transactions
• RF data acquisition
• Quality control
• Costing
• Physical counting
• Replenishment

Purchasing

• Purchase requisitions
• Encumbrance accounting
• Requests for proposals
• Purchase orders
• Multi-level approval processing
• Sub-contracting
• Invoice tracking
• Sophisticated pricing and contract management
• Supplier returns

Finance

• General ledger
• Budgeting
• Allocations
• Fixed assets
• Analytical accounting
• Project accounting
• Accounts receivable
• Accounts payable

Sales

• Open pricing
• Quotes and contracts
• Order entry
• Product configuration
• Inventory allocations
• Delivery scheduling and shipping
• Invoicing
• Customer returns
• Sales commissions

CRM

• Marketing campaigns
• Sales force automation
• Customer support, including complaint management, warranty tracking, field service and dispatch management

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