IBS Enterprise and our underlying IBS Orchestrate architecture are designed from the ground up. They help wholesalers, distributors and distribution-focused manufacturers like you transform supply chain execution, from a cost that needs to be managed into a real-time competitive weapon. We call it Distribution Excellence and it ensures your five key profitability and value drivers are all running at optimum:
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Maximized revenues – by increasing customer satisfaction through faster cycle times, e-business and improved customer service
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Reduced expenses – with smarter processes across the business
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Improved margins – driving down sourcing and fulfilment costs through extensive supplier collaboration
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Optimized inventory – through constant improvement of warehouse and transport workflows, forecasting, fulfilment and returns management
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Controlled cash – by accelerating order-to-cash cycles, freeing up working capital
The benefits of Distribution Excellence
IBS Distribution Excellence is based on industry standard methodologies such as the Supply Chain Council’s SCOR (for Supply Chain Operations Reference-model) and the Dupont Model. It delivers:
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Better process visibility – you can’t manage what you can’t measure – and you can’t measure what you can’t see. Our performance management tools provide total visibility of your entire distribution business and every process in it. In real-time.
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Rapid process improvement – Every wholesale distribution business has its own key performance indicators and IBS distribution software models every business process backward and forward across the supply chain to improve performance and margins and cut operational costs.
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Rapid system implementation – IBS Enterprise comes with over 80% of the critical distribution software processes built in via our FasTrax process templates, allowing you to deploy new functionality quickly and start driving efficiencies.
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Low-friction logistics – The constant operational improvement of warehouse and transport workflows, order fulfilment and returns management.
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Better industry benchmarking – around the big four KPIs of distribution:
• Asset turns or how successful you are in utilizing assets to generate sales revenues. These are different between distribution segments. What is considered high for one industry may be low for another. We benchmark entire industries to help determine optimal performance for you.
• Cash-to-cash cycle time or how long operating capital is out of action. The speedier the cash-to-cash cycle the leaner the business can operate in cash terms.
• Customer / supplier fulfilment rates or the speed and accuracy with which an order is carried out from receipt to delivery. This includes fill rates.
• Inventory turns or the number of times your inventory is recouped over a given period. Inventory turn ratios that are out of kilter with industry norms usually indicate loss due to shortages, excess inventory or poor customer service
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Industry-leading domain knowledge – IBS has over 30 years’ experience helping wholesale distributors across multiple industry sectors, all around the world. We’ve implemented our software in over 1200 distribution companies and growing. It all adds up to unrivalled knowledge of your industry and the processes that underpin it.
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