Integrated Wholesale Distribution ERP solution

Gain real-time visibility across your business – with supply chain ERP

Supply chain complexity is growing, customers are increasingly demanding and there's more competition than ever before in wholesale distribution. To meet these challenges you need to improve agility and collaboration, while driving efficiency across your entire value chain. Wholesale Distribution ERP will give you the real-time visibility and control over critical business processes that's necessary.

Insight to improve supply chain agility

Avanade ERP for Wholesale Distribution is powered by Microsoft Dynamics AX. It provides a proven, fully integrated solution and reporting platform, driven by industry best practices. This delivers the agility you need to meet rapidly changing markets.

Greater supply chain efficiency – with better forecasting and streamlined ordering processes you can improve collaboration with partners, while cutting costs.

Increased profit – using sophisticated pricing and service strategies to expand business opportunities and protect margins, as well as manage rebates more effectively.

Improved customer service – raises customer satisfaction by ensuring you meet their demands for competitive pricing, improved service, better availability, easier ordering and accurate delivery, across all channels.

IT aligned to the business – increasing your agility to respond to market changes and boosting your competitiveness.

Total visibility across the value chain – with real-time business insight and easy financial reporting across your global operations, you can improve decision-making.

Supply chain ERP driven by best practice

Uniquely, Avanade ERP for Wholesale Distribution is an innovative, integrated solution that embeds industry best practice in pre-defined business processes. The result is faster implementation, with low total cost of ownership and reduced risk, so you can start to benefit sooner from your investment and supply chain agility.

With Avanade, you have the reassurance that all our experts have a background in wholesale and distribution and understand the pressures you face. They will use the insight and knowledge they have from their long experience of working in your industry to find the best possible Wholesale Distribution ERP solution for you.

With a choice of deployment options to suit the way you work – including hosted, on-premise or in-the-cloud – you will have a secure, cost-effective IT environment.

Support for a scalable two-tier system also makes it easy to connect headquarter systems to your subsidiaries, divisions, branches and business lines.

The Avanade Advantage

Avanade ERP for Wholesale Distribution is based on a proven, enterprise-fit platform – Microsoft Dynamics AX – which integrates with your IT environment to improve agility and collaboration and enable you to respond effectively to changing market conditions.

Being jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft our deep industry insight keeps us at the forefront of technological innovation.

Avanade is the only Microsoft partner working exclusively with all Microsoft products. So whatever the product or size of your company, we can
help you.

With over 13,000 professionals working in more than 20 countries we have a successful track record in delivering complex projects – as well as the global presence to support your operations as you grow.

Our unique Avanade assets include:

A quick, agile and budget-friendly implementation approach that significantly reduces the risks involved
Best practice models and industry knowledge, gained working with the most innovative wholesale distributors in the world, help ensure the highest standards
One stop delivery of Microsoft solutions, right up to outsourcing your IT department
Application Management – for the long term to make sure you get the most out of your ERP solution as your business changes and grows
Support for new strategies – like Cloud ERP and Two-Tier deployment – that enable you to optimise your IT environment

As the largest global business technology services provider 100% dedicated to Microsoft solutions and technology, we are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for ERP. Avanade is certified for distribution by AMR Research (a Gartner company) and is Microsoft's 2011 Dynamics Distribution Partner of the Year.