search icon

Transform your distribution tracking and delivery with Sage Business Cloud

Our free guide will help you overcome your distribution management challenges.
Download now

Do you know the route to a more profitable business?

Sage Business Cloud X3 is your highway to success.

Business growth and efficiency can be tough, especially for distribution companies that have to balance inventory, forecasting, and logistics processes with sales, customer service, and everything in between. Luckily, this is where a powerful, easy-to-use solutions for enterprises can help.

Can you deliver the goods ?

The complexity of wholesaling presents major business challenges such as huge product inventories, narrow margins, diverse downstream customer requirements, long lead times, and unpredictable supply. But can you overcome these three key challenges?

Improve customer service with mobile technologies

Mobility, both in the warehouse and out on the road, is one of the major trends affecting your industry—without it, your team can end up being tied to a computer terminal or wasting a customer’s time in the field. Your business can’t afford to be left behind.

Get the most from your stock

No distribution business will make a profit, or survive, if customers are left waiting because products are out of stock. Inventory management is a constant balancing act to match demand to stock levels—and getting it wrong can be disastrous—leading to lost sales, too much cash tied up in excess inventory, and damaged customer relationships. Fixed assets, in the accounting sense, also have to be kept as low as possible as they represent a significant cost in the annual financial statements, and achieving this involves increasingly complex calculations.

Don't let legacy systems hold you back

How many units shipped last month? What’s your most popular item? Who’s your best customer? Which warehouse sees the most turnover? For distributors still using disparate legacy systems like spreadsheets and homegrown databases, getting answers to these questions in an efficient and timely way can be extremely difficult.

Overcome your distribution management challenges

Solve common complexities by embracing these trends.
Download guide

The total economic impact of Sage X3 for distribution

Based on interviews with Sage Business Cloud customers, Forrester created a composite organization with a favorable ROI of 237%.
Download report

Drive your distribution business towards a more profitable future

We can help you overcome the challenges of a complex, fast-moving industry.

Seize control of your stock

Improve visibility across the supply chain to ensure accountability for all stakeholders—from suppliers to customers. Understand all aspects of your inventory, product profitability, order to cash, and warehouse operations so you can stock, pick, and fulfill orders more efficiently.
 

Ramp up profit margins

Make better purchasing decisions and margins and manage supplier quality and performance. Manage sales force assignments with ease and track corresponding targets and commissions.

Empower your teams

Empower a mobile sales force with visibility into customers, stocks, past purchases, quotes, and promotions through any connected device.

Surpass customers' expectations and increase profits

Overcome your warehousing woes with our intelligent, intuitive wholesale distribution solutions. 

Sage 300

If you want to manage your finances, operations, or inventory around the world, our solution delivers at a fraction of the cost of traditional ERP software.

  • Simplify inventory management, track and ship orders on time, from multiple locations.
  • Process and track domestic and international orders that customers and your teams can place and monitor 24 hours a day.
  • Maintain an unlimited number of currencies and exchange rates, get daily updates, and automate gains or losses from fluctuations.
  • Automate your finances

Sage X3

Sage X3 provides faster, more intuitive tailored business management solutions than conventional ERP. It's for organizations looking to thrive and retain their competitive advantage by increasing their agility and quickly embracing change.

  • Tailor behaviour, user experiences and automate business processes and operations easily.
  • Get world class cloud capabilities offering customers unrivalled choice.
  • Drive continuous improvement, reduce costs and improve customer experience.
  • Improve production efficiency and quality control
  • Accelerate your entire supply chain from purchasing to delivery

We’ve been much better at forecasting our internal inventory. We’ve reduced our inventory on-hand values by 50% while increasing fill rate and inventory turns.

Calvin Johnson, CEO

Lykki, Vancouver BC

Advice about managing your wholesale distribution business

Read our articles, guides, expert tips, and more.

What is dead stock inventory and how do you avoid it?

What is dead stock inventory and how do you avoid it?

What is dead stock inventory? Why is it bad for business, and how do you minimise (and manage) dead stock?

Read More
Read More
Trade and traceability: How to battle supply chain disruption

Trade and traceability: How to battle supply chain disruption

As a process manufacturer, how can you reinvent your firm? Fuelled by digital transformation and Industry 4.0, manufacturers are overhauling their processes across product innovation and through the supply chain with traceability. The shift from products to services and the need to bypass traditional sales channels to exploit the value-added activities of the digital economy are […]

Read More
Read More
How distributors can benefit from advanced inventory insights

How distributors can benefit from advanced inventory insights

At its core, the mission of distribution companies hasn’t changed over the years. It’s about buying inventory, stocking it, and then reselling it. But even if the basic principles remain the same, the distribution industry is changing: There are significant margin pressures, with distributors caught between manufacturers that want them to be more efficient, and retailers that want […]

Read More
Read More
Six key trends distribution companies and manufacturers should keep in mind

Six key trends distribution companies and manufacturers should keep in mind

Learn why in certain industries like food and beverage and pharmaceutical manufacturing, having a handle on changing regulations is vitally important.

Read More
Read More
How wholesalers and distributors can use analytics to boost productivity

How wholesalers and distributors can use analytics to boost productivity

Find out how wholesalers and distributors can benefit from the use of data analysis and ERP technology integration.

Read More
Read More
Get more Sage Advice

Give Feedback