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Do you know the route to a more profitable business?

Sage Business Cloud X3 is your road 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 solution 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.

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The total economic impact of Enterprise Management for distribution

Based on interviews with Sage Business Cloud customers, Forrester created a composite organisation with a favourable ROI of 237%.

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Drive your distribution business towards a more profitable future

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

Take 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 fulfil 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.

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One thing that's really key for me is people. As I mentioned before, I've always found the people at Sage extremely helpful, extremely friendly, and extremely willing to make it work for us. I think that resonates with people here. In fact, I can't emphasise enough how important that is. Having a team there that want to work with you and help you get the most out of the software is fantastic.

Graham Heaven, MD
Burbidge

We are utilizing technology in ways that reduce the labor required to complete routine yet vital tasks. Our staff can now spend more time on value-adding activities, and we are able to grow the business without adding additional staff.

John Giczewski, Purchasing Manager

St. Joseph Paper and Packaging

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