ERP Applications

The Purpose of Wholesale Distribution Applications

Wholesale distribution applications enable businesses to:
•    Be more profitable
•    Optimize processes
•    Retain customers
•    Become more efficient
Being more profitable, optimizing distribution processes, and retaining customers allows businesses to be successful and beat the competition.  Wholesale distributors have the challenge of meeting the needs of several different kinds of customers.  Using wholesale distribution applications can help distributor meet these needs efficiently and effectively.

As the wholesale distribution market grows, distributors are faced with customer demand, fierce competition, and less operating monies.  Wholesale distribution applications can help distributors become more flexible so that they can respond to the market quicker. 
Some popular vendors that offer wholesale distribution applications are:
•    Oracle
•    NetSuite
•    Lawson
•    Microsoft
•    Epicor
•    Infor
•    Sage
•    Mibar.net
•    Softrend
•    Demand Solutions
The wholesale distribution industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States.   Wholesale distribution is an important industry for the United States economy.  Sales for all wholesale distributors in 2007 were approximately four trillion dollars.  There are approximately two hundred and fifty thousand wholesale distributors in the United States alone.  A majority of these wholesale distributors have less than five hundred employees.  The wholesale distribution industry employs approximately one out of twenty Americans, or, just over five million people.  This industry is not only responsible for employing a vast majority of Americans, but also allows America to compete on a global scale.

Wholesale distributors don’t make or product products.  Wholesale distributors receive or buy products from manufacturers.  Once the wholesale distributor receives the product it is often stored in a warehouse.  When the customer requests an order, the wholesale distributor fills the order and ships it out to the customer.  Wholesaling is a way of reselling goods, products, or merchandise to customers.  The wholesaler is the middle man between the manufacturer and the customer.  Wholesalers make money from the amount of product, goods, or merchandise the sell to their customers.

No matter what wholesale distributor you have, you can benefit from a wholesale distribution application.  There are several more vendors on the market than the ones noted above.  If you are seeking a wholesale distribution application, take your time exploring all the vendors and the solutions that have to offer.

Written by :

kristine H