Apprise^® eBusiness Solutions

With most businesses already on the Internet, an Internet presence today needs to do more than generate awareness or provide basic marketing for a distributor's products and services. It needs to create a competitive advantage, improve sales and service efficiencies, and enhance their customers' sales and service experience. Apprise® Distribution eBusiness solutions enable consumer goods distributors to deploy a fully integrated eBusiness solution that provides real-time sales and service, expands reachable markets, improves service to customers, and enhances sales force productivity.

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Key Benefits

• Save time and effort in establishing and managing on-line applications with centralized, fully-integrated data management
• Reduce sale to revenue cycle times by providing sales teams and/or customers with the ability to enter their orders on-line - from anywhere at anytime - with ease
• Maximize profits by capturing on-line customer orders that are aligned with their current contract terms and credit and margin management rules
• Utilize flexible business-to-business and business-to-consumer selling options to grow revenues with existing customers while also exploring new markets
• Leverage credit card transaction interfaces to capture real-time sales and revenues
• Reduce order errors and improve customer satisfaction by enabling seamless on-line and off-line quoting and selling that utilizes integrated customer specific pricing and discounting
• On-line inventory capabilities improve sales efficiencies and customer communications by providing sales teams and customers with real-time insight into product availability and allocation
• Reduce support costs and free up limited support resources by enabling on line inquiries, including order status, delivery options, invoices, account balances, and general help
• Cover all the costs of on-line orders by automatically applying freight and other additional charges based on business rules