Complete business solutions: SAP offers its
SAP for Wholesale Distribution solutions. The
solutions help large, mid-sized, and small distributors automate and optimize business
processes, reduce supply chain costs, increase
cash flow, and facilitate collaboration with suppliers, customers, and partners.
SAP’s solutions are designed to meet the complex challenges of wholesale distribution. Low
profit margins, rising logistics costs, and intensified competition are driving companies to seek
better visibility and technical advantage with their
IT solutions. To address these challenges and
maximize return on investment, the enterprise
software packages are tailored to the specialized
needs of the different segments within the
wholesale distribution industry. The solution sets
are based on an in-depth knowledge of the
processes that drive the health-care, food, and
industrial segments, and feature applications
such as purchase optimization, catch-weight,
track and trace, chargeback and rebate management, and multichannel sales order processing.
SAP for Wholesale Distribution solutions provide a platform for companies to easily and
quickly implement and transform their business models to meet changing market
demands. The solutions allow optimization of
key business requirements while enabling
change, integration, and collaboration, resulting
in maximum value delivery to joint customers.
SAP’s strong ecosystem of partners enables
customers to quickly find and deploy the
wholesale solutions to accelerate innovation,
improve return on investment, and grow. SAP
for Wholesale Distribution offers companies a
solution that provides business-level context
and industry-specific functionality to give customers the insight, efficiency, and cost control
needed in today’s market. (SAP, www.sap.com)
Export extras: Next Generation Logistics Inc., a
company that offers managed freight services,
TMS software, and supply chain consulting, has
added new Export Documentation functionality
to its FreightMaster TMS Suite transportation
management system. Available in both the hosted and on-premise models, the NGLExportDoc
enhancement contains features to make international trade documentation quick and easy.
NGLExportDoc creates quality customs,
export, and shipping documents, according to
the company. The solution eliminates the need
to manually type in needed information, as
well as the requirement of working with multiple systems. Instead, all orders are processed
through FreightMaster TMS, improving efficiency and reducing costs by preparing all export
documents in house. (Next Generation
Logistics Inc., www.nextgeneration.com)
Faster “ 10+ 2” filings: Log-Net Inc., a supplier of Web-based supply chain execution
solutions, announces the availability of its Importer Security Filing (ISF) service. Using
Log-Net’s Web-based portal services, importers or their agents can file the 10 importer
data elements directly to U.S. Customs to comply with the “ 10+ 2” regulation.
Many importers who are concerned about the challenge of collecting the required
information and transmitting this to Customs in a timely fashion have focused on processing through destination customs brokers. This service will enable importers to file
from any location via shippers, forwarders, or brokers, according to the company. (
Log-Net Inc., www.Log-Net.com)
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