Wholesale distribution

Deliver what your customers need, where they need it, and at the right time using SAP solutions for wholesale distribution.

Adapt to the new economics of wholesale distribution

Drive profitable growth and meet evolving customer expectations with intelligent warehouse management and e-commerce solutions with embedded AI.

SAP Business Suite can help wholesale distributors:

Future-proof supply chains

Withstand disruptions from global shocks, compliance pressure, and fierce competition by building a resilient, sustainable distribution network that can adapt and recover quickly.

Enhance customer engagement

Provide sales teams with pricing, inventory, and margin insights to accelerate productivity, improve performance, and engage customers.

Bolster sourcing and procurement

Achieve cost-effective, efficient wholesale distribution by building reliable supplier and channel partnerships while safeguarding product quality, traceability, and compliance.

Transform finance

Manage your top and bottom lines more effectively by improving supplier cost recovery, gaining better insights into profitability, and understanding your cash flow position.

Explore how SAP can help your wholesale distribution business run better

Achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth using solutions tailored to the specific needs of the wholesale distribution industry.

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Fast, flexible planning

Evaluate strategies and mitigate disruptions with the ability to:

  • Improve forecast accuracy by unifying finance and operations data.

  • Reduce stock-outs and rush orders using dynamic materials planning.

  • Optimise inventory, customer service, and working capital with AI.

  • Manage backorders, surpluses, and expedited fulfilment costs alerts.

  • Boost uptime and lower costs using service parts planning.

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Demand planning

Manage stock levels and lead times, minimising stock-outs due to unexpected events.

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Transparency from demand to delivery

Plan across your supply network in real time and evaluate parts inventory based on part volume, velocity, segment, and more.

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Collaboration networks

Work with trading partners on planning, inventory, and quality management.

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Infosys Demand Sensing Solution

Improve short-term forecast accuracy by deploying daily level demand sensing with depth, recency of data, and high granularity.

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AI/ML Powered Budget Forecast Accelerator by YASH Technologies Incorporated

Improve visibility across the entire supply chain, enhance internal strategic planning, and align volume plans with financial plans.

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Spend visibility

Facilitate information-sharing and visibility into procurement processes to:

  • Protect margins by managing cost recovery for rebates and chargebacks.

  • Act faster and minimise supply disruptions with risk alerts and scores.

  • Source strategically based on insights by supplier, product, and region. Boost compliance and tighten cost control with automation.

  • Cut costs and reduce exceptions by improving supplier collaboration.

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Procurement visibility

Centralise control of requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, and contracts by consolidating data on one system.

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Strategic sourcing

Manage spend more strategically and achieve new savings by discovering qualified suppliers from a broad supplier network.

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Chargeback processing

Prevent errors and profit leakage by administering, modelling, reporting, and analysing contracts and chargeback agreements.

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EcoVadis Business Sustainability Ratings for SAP Ariba

Augment procurement with solutions that reduce ESG risk across the value chain and offer trusted sustainability ratings for your trading partners.

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Streamline incentive processes to shorten sales cycles, predict revenues better, reduce costs for go-to-market programmes, and motivate sales teams.

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Warehouse operations management

Coordinate high-volume warehouse operations with complex logistics processes that:

  • Spot risks, avoid disruptions, and gain transparency via alerts.

  • Optimise inventory and speed fulfilment with directed putaway.

  • Reduce risk with integrated quality, production, and track and trace processes.

  • Gain control of automation equipment through interactive user experiences.

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Transportation management

Manage and integrate transportation and shipping across transportation modes and verticals.

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Global track and trace

Drive performance and customer satisfaction with actionable, real-time insights into inbound and outbound shipments.

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Yard logistics

Maximise your visibility into yard processes and preview planned workloads with a range of visualisation and reporting tools.

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Optimised Dynamic Pricing by Pricefx

Optimise pricing with tools that quickly respond to market fluctuations, maintaining price discipline to prevent margin loss.

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ReturnoTrack: Returnable Packaging Tracking and Optimisation

Track, optimise, and reclaim packaging to reduce costs and boost utilisation.

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Connected omnichannel commerce

Personalise e-commerce journeys on an adaptive feature-rich platform to:

  • Reduce churn by presenting a unified view to customers across all channels.
  • Increase conversion rates with real-time inventory and tailored pricing.
  • Boost revenue and strengthen loyalty through rebates and incentives.
  • Drive revenue opportunities with specific cross- and upselling offers.
  • Grow share of wallet with customer and product profitability insights.
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Omnichannel customer engagement

Produce measurable results with real-time, scalable personalisation.

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Asset performance management

Minimise asset failure risk with AI-assisted maintenance decisions, sensor data analysis, and remote equipment monitoring.

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Product pricing, configuring, and quotes

Empower your sales team and partners to offer complex product configurations, optimised pricing, and appealing proposals.

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DataXstream OMS+ Cross-Channel Order Management Solution

Manage complex commerce across channels to increase sales, reduce order errors, and on-board new assets efficiently.

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Zilliant Price IQ

Apply predictive models to quantify potential profit and revenue trade-offs from price changes and deliver optimal, deal-specific prices.

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TeamViewer Frontline Augmented Reality

Enables deskless workers to digitalise industrial processes and workflows for logistics picking, assembly, quality assurance, maintenance, and field service.

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Integrated, AI-enabled processes

Transform end-to-end processes and apply analytics that enable you to:

  • Cut days sales outstanding, bad debt write-offs, and costs via automation.

  • Examine cash flow, manage payments, and mitigate financial risks with AI.

  • Offer advantageous payment terms and identify discounts through analytics.

  • Close faster with real-time profit and loss insights and smart workflows.

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Travel, expense, and invoice management

Gain visibility into spend by managing expenses, tracking travel, and staying ahead of vendor payments from anywhere.

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Workforce management

Optimise staffing, control labour costs, and stay compliant with automation, real-time insights, and seamless integration.

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Human capital management

Support your workforce with unified data, smart insights, and automatic updates.

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Enable AI-driven interviewing and onboarding to simplify applications and scheduling for candidates, shrinking time-to-hire.

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SAP Content Stream by Skillsoft

Boost skills and productivity with curated content about leadership, technology, risk mitigation, and other high-demand skills.

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SAP Workforce Forecasting and Scheduling by WorkForce Software

Optimise employee productivity and workforce scheduling while forecasting and planning workforce requirements.

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