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.