Read how modern ERP systems help distributors compete in a rapidly evolving market.
Simplified distribution industry software
Distributors face challenges like growing competition and supply chain disruption, making it increasingly difficult for distributors to deliver the products and services people desire. Our technology empowers you to better serve your customers, differentiate, innovate, and drive transformation.
Our simplified ERP solutions have distribution industry functionality built in. We make it easier for you to offer new value-add services, elevate the customer experience, and achieve operational excellence.
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Agility and automation are foundational for building material distributors
With increasing B2C demand, distributors must continue to streamline operations to further reduce costs. Infor solutions for distributors enable greater automation and reduce the instances that require human involvement in the order process.
Industrial suppliers need automation and visibility
Offering additional services that add value and distinguish your business help ensure customer loyalty. But even so, you still need to vigilantly monitor customer supplies while controlling costs to hold your margins. Infor offers an enterprise solution built specifically to address the nuances within the distribution industry—automating processes and providing the visibility needed to anticipate next steps.
Professional trade suppliers build customer loyalty
Whether it’s large commercial jobs or small DIY projects, it’s critical to provide a seamless customer experience that’s built on superb multi-channel engagement. Coupling the variety of supplies with expertise to assist in decision-making and ensuring optimal delivery execution builds customer loyalty. Relying on an enterprise solution that enables true multi-channel engagement and optimally meets evolving industry requirements can help you achieve a greater competitive edge.
Catering to food and beverage suppliers’ unique needs
Whether you’re tackling quality, variability, tracking and tracing, sustainability, or all of them, it’s critical you leverage an enterprise solution that’s designed to anticipate your needs and provide insights to how you can better serve your customers. Infor solutions provide an innovative platform that’s continually enhanced to address the flexibility and evolution that your industry demands.
Infor CloudSuite™ Distribution Enterprise is an industry-leading ERP software solution for wholesale distributors. It’s built with capabilities that are designed specifically for the wholesale distribution industry and its subsegments. The solution provides an exceptional user experience and powerful analytics in a multicompany, multicountry, and multisite environment. This innovative, digital platform in the cloud enables distributors to continuously adopt new technologies and industry-specific capabilities.
HIGHLIGHTS
Achieve operational excellence across the supply chain
Establish differentiation through innovative, value-add services
Encourage business collaboration through mobile enablement, workflow, and alerts
Streamline inventory management with advanced statistical forecasting and stock recommendations
Maintain the highest margins with supplier- and customer-rebate management
Distribution ERP software for small- to medium-size business
Infor CloudSuite™ Distribution is built specifically for the needs of small- to medium-size wholesale distributors. It’s a comprehensive enterprise solution that weaves innovation into core competencies to help you better serve customers, outpace the competition, and expand profitability. You can optimize every facet of your operations, from sales, omni-channel engagement, inventory, and warehousing, to financials, value-add services, and more. Infor solutions can help you accelerate the pace of business by managing transactions with unparalleled visibility across the enterprise, allowing for better informed and faster decision-making.
Infor® industry analytics deliver relevant and meaningful insights for everybody from the boardroom to the warehouse. Infor Birst® makes business intelligence and analytics easy to consume with prebuilt industry and role-specific content and metrics embedded wherever business users need information.
HIGHLIGHTS
Leverage proven, pre-built industry content
Rely on C-suite dashboards for prescriptive analysis
Utilize intelligent drillback with in-context insights
Implement an open ecosystem for democratized analytics
Infor Rhythm® for Commerce provides a fully integrated, multi-tenant, e-commerce solution that works with existing Infor ERP software products. The solution enables you to sell your complete product assortment in a rich, online shopping experience.
HIGHLIGHTS
Create a powerful online presence that offers a seamless shopping experience
Rely on cost-effective e-commerce management in the cloud
Make it easy for your marketing team to build and maintain
Use the included product information management functionality, or use your own
Infor® CPQ (Configure Price Quote) helps distributors, sell complex products more quickly. The rules-driven platform is designed for visual quoting and dynamic pricing to instantly produce a configuration-specific list price, dealer cost, and quoted selling price. Orders are automatically passed to your business system via enterprise integration.
HIGHLIGHTS
Sell complex products faster with quick and accurate quotes on demand
Optimize your supply chain to improve demand planning and purchasing
Bring your products to life with a visual selection and configuration experience
Customer Relationship Management software Infor® CRM provides distributors with a view of every customer touch point across sales, marketing, customer service, and support teams.
HIGHLIGHTS
Manage leads, opportunities, and activities
Maintain full control of all data, when and where you need it
Leverage back-office and out-of-the-box, Infor ERP software integration
Empower your mobile workforce
Operate at a low total cost of ownership compared to similar customer relationship management products
Infor® WMS is an intuitive warehouse management system that’s designed to help you manage your distribution center activities holistically. It combines warehouse fulfillment with embedded labor management and 3D visual analysis in a unified application. The solution can empower you to enrich service levels and increase product velocity.
HIGHLIGHTS
Rely on holistic, multisite warehousing
Gain unprecedented visibility into inventory, orders, and equipment
Deploy on-premises or in the cloud
Promote a global footprint with 14 supported languages
Infor® EAM is a comprehensive asset management solution that’s built on more than 30 years of experience. It gives you asset management, materials management, and procurement tools to help you solve your critical asset performance challenges. Advanced analysis tools help you take the data you already have and turn it into quality equipment decisions. This modern, configurable, asset management solution gives you the flexibility to integrate data with your other enterprise applications, so you get a single view of your company on any device. You’ll be able to optimize all your asset management processes, facilitate root cause failure analysis, leverage enhanced visualization capabilities, and turn asset management into a competitive advantage.
HIGHLIGHTS
Maximize the reliability and performance of assets
Predict equipment failure and carry out preventative maintenance
Comply with strict legal and environmental regulations
Infor® Human Resources is a leading-edge, end-to-end, talent-focused solution. It can help you strategically align people initiatives and talent capabilities to your overall business strategies.
HIGHLIGHTS
Get all the human capital management functionality you need in one complete solution
Utilize a consumer-grade, personalized, role-based user interface
Leverage relevant and timely data based on behavior science and analytics
Gain complete employee visibility; hire, develop, and retain the right talent
Boost employee performance and improve workforce effectiveness
Wholesale distributors use Infor® OS cloud operating platform to seamlessly connect services across all Infor CloudSuite™ industry solutions (as well as extending into many third-party solutions). Services range from essential, business-critical functionality to more advanced technology that’s capable of providing competitive advantages to the enterprise.
HIGHLIGHTS
Leverage a unified cloud infrastructure for single sign-on, mobility, security, and compliance
Utilize seamless integration across Infor and non-Infor products
Ensure an easy-to-use, unified, user experience across all applications
Capture vital data from IoT devices
Use advanced analytics and AI for guidance and automated decisions
Maintain compliance, collaboration, and accountability with role-based homepages, alerts, and workflows
