Distributors are experiencing significant change in their marketplace resulting from the pressures of:

• Increasingly sophisticated electronic commerce
• Strategic customer and supplier alliances
• Supply chain integration and collaboration
• Globalisation
• Company consolidation due to mergers and acquisitions

Distributors with a competitive advantage will understand how their customers buy and what they want, not just what they buy or who they are. Increasingly, customers are defining their business values. Distributors and suppliers who can partner to deliver that value will have a competitive advantage. Integrated enterprise software applications provide the agility and focus for distributors to reduce inventory, control costs, grow revenue, and improve customer service.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne collaborative planning and fulfilment solution solves the dilemma of selecting a software solution that must be significantly modified. Distributors no longer have to sacrifice scalability and flexibility to realize distribution-specific functionality.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solutions have been helping distribution organizations achieve the following business objectives for over 25 years:

• Control and optimise inventory levels
• Control and optimise warehouse and transportation costs
• Manage remote customer inventories
• Provide immediate, knowledgeable response to customer inquiries
• Enhance profitability through optimal pricing/promotion capabilities
• Focus employee activities on exception and high value-add activities

Read the Grocery Distribution overview to see how JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is tackling these issues.