Distribution in the Cloud
In a rapidly evolving distribution environment you need a modern, agile solution that allow you to manage thousands of transactions, suppliers and customers, while adapting to changing buyer behaviour, keeping costs under control, and effectively tracking all your inventory items.
Infor CloudSuite Distribution is a powerful and proven cloud-based enterprise planning (ERP) solution built for the needs of large wholesale distributors with complex and evolving models.
ComActivity are one of the world’s leading providers of Infor CloudSuite solutions, and are specialists in the distribution industry.
Infor CloudSuite Distribution
With Infor CloudSuite Distribtution, you get deep industry-specific functionality, including:
Order Entry
Retain and reach new markets through a streamlined ordering process that includes a fast order-entry process with item recommendations, non-stock and special
order options, and optimized counter sales.
Inventory control
Improve inventory management performance through better visibility into your largest asset by monitoring inventory turns, demand, optimized levels, and resulting profitability.
Value-added services
Meet increasing customer demands for more comprehensive services from distributors, such as kitting, light manufacturing, assembly, private labeling, and more.
Purchasing
Make intelligent purchasing decisions with access to a centralized interface that has all the information you need right at your fingertips, including color-coded notifications for problems and exceptions.
Financial management
Increase your financial insight and meet the challenges of operating multiple locations and companies, with multiple currencies. Infor CloudSuite Distribution can support your company’s growth whether it’s organic, geographic, or created through mergers and acquisitions.
Complex pricing
Get a handle on complex pricing requirements, including matrix pricing, pricing discounts, quantity breaks, packaging breaks, contract pricing, and special pricing agreements (SPAs).
"Infor CloudSuite Distribution gives us improved supply chain velocity, and a much better picture of our state of play at any one time. Importantly, it is taking us to a true multi-tenancy environment where our technology will be continually improved. We now have the agile, responsive and dynamic ERP we need to innovate and drive competitive differentiation.”
Brett Perkins
COO, Cellnet Group
What Infor CloudSuite Distribution delivers
Core Distribution functionality
- Empower better distribution across every department and every location. The core Infor M3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities within CloudSuite Distribution deliver everything distributors need, including quote and order management, advanced inventory management, pricing optimization, financials, purchasing, value-add services, and more.
Technology platform
- Leverage CloudSuite Distribution’s innovative, core technology service to enable seamless integration
between systems, a unified user experience across all applications, organization-wide visibility into
real-time data, and user collaboration.
Business intelligence and analytics
- Harness the power of distribution-specific business intelligence (BI) and a business analytics service that can understand and optimize complex processes in less time than traditional BI solutions. Using patented automation and machine learning technologies, Infor’s “networked BI” service connects teams and applications across the enterprise via a trusted network of analytics and insights to inform smarter decisions.
Optional capabilities
- Service and rental
- Storeroom management
- Document capture
- Enterprise analytics
- Warehouse logistics
Moving to the cloud
At Comactivity, we understand that while most large scale distributors are planning to move to cloud-based ERP solutions, it can be a daunting prospect, given the complexities.
We have extensive experience working with global distributors successfully implementing cloud-based solutions, and our consultants are fully qualified in both Infor Cloud technologies and Amazon Web Services. We are here to work with you on every step of your cloud journey.
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