Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) wholesale distributors today often find themselves squeezed between increasing
customer demands, competitive pressures, and the accelerating spread of manufacturers across the globe. Tight
margins and the high cost of excess inventory make cost control and efficiency crucial, especially for small to
mid-size companies that can’t afford to make mistakes. Yet too many distributors simply accept the manual processes,
delayed information, warehouse confusion, intuition-based purchasing, inventory errors, and decreasing profits that
make them have to fight to survive.
There is also the challenge to traditional distribution methods. Alternatives such as mail order, catalog sales
and direct sales bypass the traditional distribution channels altogether. To counter this trend, distributors have
to add more and more value to their customers. Technologies such as RFID, EDI and integrated shipping capabilities
not only address many retailers’ demands, but can also improve customer service and lower overall costs.
Integrate Distribution Operations for End-to-End Efficiency
IDEAS is affordable and easy-to-use distribution software solution designed specifically for light manufacturers
and wholesale distributors of:
- Giftware, housewares and home goods
- Toys, hobby and crafts
- Paper-based products, social stationery and greeting cards
- Sporting and outdoor equipment
- Jewelry products
IDEAS integrates your order entry, inventory management, fulfillment, shipping, and financial data to help you
get information and goods when they are needed—fast.
Meeting the Key Business Challenges
IDEAS provides wholesale distributors with quick feedback on business performance and helps automate manual
procedures, eliminate rekeying of data, improve replenishment decisions, process orders quickly, improve fill
rates and get strong returns on inventory investment.
With IDEAS, you get a complete end-to-end distribution software solution that meets the business challenges you
face every day:
- Right item, right place, right time
- Inventory visibility and integration
- Improving warehouse productivity
- Controlling inventory costs – reduction of safety stock
- Labor and operations agility
- Managing vendor relationships
- Increased demands for just-in-time inventory (Demand Planning)
- Need for up-to-date supply chain visibility
- Service automation requirements of customers
- Razor-thin margins
- Customer Profitability
- Increased difficulty in obtaining timely supplier rebates
- Large Retailers By-pass Distributors
- Distribution Costs Sensitive to Energy Prices
- Competition from Manufacturers (Web driving consumer product education
Leverage Microsoft Dynamics NAV Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software
Based on
Microsoft's Dynamics NAV Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, IDEAS’ suite of financial,
manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing and services management modules offer a user experience
tailored to peoples’ roles within your organization—helping them work productively, make confident decisions,
and respond quickly to new marketplace opportunities. And Microsoft Dynamics NAV works like and with the other
Microsoft products and technologies people already use, helping to ensure a smooth implementation, minimize
training requirements, and provide a solution that can move your company into the future. If you’re looking
for a system that can be implemented rapidly, learned and used easily and maintained with minimal disruption
to your business,
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an ideal solution.
Benefit from Our Guarantee Against Software Obsolescence
In order to ensure the highest level of management reporting, software performance and ongoing client
profitability, we’ve developed a unique concept within the importing and distribution industries, which
is our ‘Guarantee Against Software Obsolescence’. Under this concept, research and development on advanced
computer software processes is ongoing and results in the periodic release of new software functionality, which
not only meets the current needs of our business partners but sets the standard for importing software and
distribution software nationwide.