As your wholesale distribution business grows or you become part of an international group of companies, it is easy to lose sight of what made you great in the first place: responding effectively to your customers. It’s simply harder to manage resources the bigger you get, isn’t it? Not any more.
Multi Distribution Centre makes it as easy to manage a global operation as a single warehouse. And it gives you an edge. You can beat smaller rivals because now you have access to inventory from your parent company’s factory in Shanghai or your French subsidiary’s warehouse in Bordeaux. Meanwhile, the smaller rival is having to tell customers of a six-week lead-time.
Multi Distribution Center gives you a view from your desk into the warehouses of all your partner companies around the world. If you find what you are looking for, you can have it sent to your warehouse or direct to the customer. The software will handle the paperwork:
- Order documentation.
- Invoicing.
- Logistics.
- Financial transactions.
- Currency issues.
- Language.
You can also use Multi Distribution Centre to operate a central warehouse system. This simplifies supply side planning. The central distributor deals with external suppliers and provides inventory on demand to local warehouses. In fact, Multi Distribution Centre can help you deal with any combination of central and local warehousing so that you can find the business model that suits you best.
When a number of business units combine efforts, it’s easy to duplicate information. IBS offers a way around this by centralizing the data. Individual businesses still have access to the information, but the cost overhead in creating it is reduced.