Enterprise-Wide Distribution Software and Solutions - Mass Merchant Management

Large retailers and mass merchants - Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, Federated Department Stores, Linens-n-Things, and others - have the power to create and change markets. To compete for and keep their business, consumer goods distributors need to do business their way. Enabling high volume sales, working through electronic interfaces, providing flexible shipping and payment options, adhering to strict labeling formats, and more. AppriseŽ Distribution retailer and mass merchant management provides the tools and expertise distributors need to capitalize on changing market conditions and meet current and emerging mass merchant requirements - so they can meet their customers' needs and effectively manage chargebacks to maximize profitability.

Key Benefits

• Flexible rule-based environment provides the capabilities necessary to meet the unique requirements of each mass merchant for pricing, credit, collection, and chargeback terms while maximizing returns from each relationship
• Improve order fill rates and customer satisfaction by prioritizing and allocating inventory on a customer level basis
• Meet specific customer requirements for unique shipping and retail labels
• Seamlessly link customer orders and internal product information with flexible cross-reference tables
• Ensure you have the capabilities you need when your customers demand them with ongoing innovation and leading-edge technology, including UCC128 labeling, EDI, RFID and more
• Leverage EDI to streamline the interface with mass merchants for sales, shipment, payment, inventory, point-of-sale (POS), and forecasting information
• Adapt to changing industry and market standards, such as Sunrise 2005 and dynamic routing, on demand and without business interruption
• Capitalize on revenue opportunities by evolving to integrated real-time sales, shipping, payment, and inventory planning in collaboration with large customers
• Real-time information systems provide the depth of insight needed to track, manage, and maximize profitability at the parent company, store, region, and product level and more
• Utilize enhanced scorecard tools to quickly gain visibility into customer specific performance
• Leverage integrated sales, shipping, and forecasting information to meet customer inventory demands and maximize revenue potential
• Define customer-specific business rules to track and reduce customer chargebacks for improved receivables performance and increased profitability