SmartStart for WholeSale & Distribution

SmartStart for Wholesale & Distribution offers a new approach to delivering a fully integrated, cost-effective, front and back office mySAP system straight out-of-the-box, which means you can be live on SAP within weeks of starting your project. Smart start for Wholesale & Distribution is the core product developed by Chelford SAP Solutions and provides the foundation of the industry-specific variant solutions, which have been categorised as mySAP All-in-One solutions in their own right by SAP.

Who Is It For?

SmartStart for Wholesale & Distribution is designed specifically for:

• Mid-Market Wholesale & Distribution companies (typically 50-1000 employees)
• Subsidiaries of large companies
• Business Units within large companies.

Each of these solutions includes pre-configured functions designed to specifically help support the business processes of companies who operate in the Wholesale and Distribution sector and who have some or all of the following characteristics:

• Primarily distributors with minimal / no manufacturing
• Generally dealing with large number of suppliers and customers
• Having a variety of customers who range from large retailers to small shops and distributors
• With suppliers who are typically the manufacturers, and who vary from large to small
• May have their own label products as well as branded goods
• Who often deal with very large inventories and who need to manage high stock levels
• To whom customer service is vital and who deal with short delivery times
• For whom pricing and discounting is critical and where margin visibility is important
• Who have a sales & marketing focus - often running a series of marketing campaigns to promote own products
• Where profitability reporting and sales analysis need to be flexible to highlight profitable lines and customers very easily.

But as well as addressing these general requirements each individual Smart start solution supports the specific needs of companies operating in 6 sub-vertical markets.

The six Smart start solutions address the following industry sectors:

• Healthcare Distributors
• Mail Order Companies
• Grocery Wholesalers
• High Tech Distributors
• Chemical Distribution Companies
• Household Product Distributors

Each of these will have its own industry peculiarities, be it dealing with short shelf life fresh produce or managing the documentation required when handling hazardous chemicals, from managing agents and catalogue sales to working with the different emphasis on own label versus branded products.

Smartstart for Wholesale & Distribution consists of a broad range of core modules which can be augmented by a range of fixed scope 'Value Packs' (see the diagram below). This allows a customer's final solution to be tailored to meet their particular needs whilst still adopting a market specific templated approach.

	Accounting	Financial Statements Ledgers Financial Analysis Order & Project Accounting Product & Service Cost Calculation	B u s i n e s s A n a l y t i c s
	Customer Relationship Management	Customer Service Marketing Campaign Management
	Sales Cycle Management	Sales Agreements Pricing Sales Order Processing Complaints and Returns
	Supply Chain Management	Demand & Supply Planning Procurement Distribution
	Stock and Warehouse Control	Warehouse Management Inventory Control Physical Inventory
		Value Packs...
	Corporate Value Packs	GB Payroll Human Resource Travel Management Management Cockpit
	Logistics Value Packs	Manufacturing Service Advanced Purchasing Transportation RF and Bar Coding Internet Selling CIC