SAP Cloud ERP for Distribution

Today's distribution landscape is relentless

Competing channels, evolving customer demands, and rising operational costs threaten your margins. SAP Cloud ERP, also known as SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, is the intelligent cloud ERP solution specifically designed to help you simplify, automate, and scale your business for success.

Distributors of all kinds are seeing new competition from channels like online marketplaces and more than ever must meet ever-increasing customer expectations for fast and reliable service, all while maintaining profitability. This requires a delicate balancing act between providing excellent service levels and keeping staff and inventory investments in check.

SAP Cloud ERP offers specific functionalities for multiple distribution channels, including direct and indirect. With S/4HANA Public and its fit-to-standard industry best practices approach, distribution companies can increase efficiency, reduce costs, improve visibility and real-time insights, enhance agility and scalability, build trust and transparency with sustainability management, all with reduced IT burdens.

SAP Cloud ERP built for growth-focused distributors

Delivered by Navigator Business Solutions, S/4 Public supports growth-focused distribution companies by enabling:

Shifting Landscape: New disruptive players are forcing distributors to innovate. Explore value-added services like light manufacturing, kitting, and product consulting to stay ahead.
Evolving Customer Demands: Customers today crave a personalized experience with wider product selection, faster deliveries, and flexible options. Adapt to meet these expectations.
Holistic Solutions: Customers seek collaboration. Offer complete solutions for specific needs, like supplying all materials for complex projects (e.g., stadium renovation).
Supply Chain - Building Resilience: Global disruptions necessitate a smarter supply chain. Embrace intelligent solutions and business process improvements to ensure efficiency and sustainability.

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Key Benefits of SAP Cloud ERP for Distribution

Key Benefits of SAP Cloud ERP for Distribution

Effortless Efficiency: Eliminate manual tasks and streamline processes with intelligent automation, freeing your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
Real-Time Visibility: Gain instant insights into inventory levels, customer behavior, and market trends, empowering data-driven decision-making.
Unmatched Agility: Adapt quickly to changing market demands and embrace new opportunities with a scalable cloud-based solution.
Cost Optimization: Reduce errors, minimize wasted resources, and optimize inventory management to cut operational expenses.
Elevated Customer Experience: Deliver faster order fulfillment, improve on-time delivery rates, and exceed customer expectations.
Reduced IT Costs: Eliminate the need for expensive hardware and IT infrastructure, freeing up resources for investments in core business initiatives.
Enhanced Security: Robust security features ensure the protection of sensitive business data and intellectual property.
Faster Time to Value: The rapid implementation process of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition allows distributors to see a return on their investment (ROI) quicker.

Enhanced Capabilities for Growth-focused Distribution:

Utilizing Sustainability to Grow Revenue: Strategic connections cultivate a powerful brand, solidifying the distributor's position as the exclusive source for unmatched products and services across the entire industry landscape.
Automation as an Efficiency Driver: Distribution companies build brand loyalty by guaranteeing consistent product availability. This strong reputation rests on a foundation of reliable products and services, robust supplier and partner networks, and strategically located supply chains that get products closer to customers.
Diversifying the Supply Chain: For long-term success, businesses require constant vigilance, a proactive approach to risk management, a commitment to sustainability, ongoing talent development and retention strategies, and optimized supply chains with the right inventory levels.
Digital Transformation and Business Performance: To navigate disruption smoothly, distributors must fortify their digital core. This includes harmonizing data, integrating systems, standardizing processes, documenting workflows, and streamlining architecture.

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Solution Features for Growth-focused Distributors:

Industry-Tailored Best Practices: Leverage pre-configured functionalities specifically designed to address the unique needs of distribution companies.
Inventory Management: Enhance visibility and optimize warehouse operations with seamless picking, packing, and shipping processes. Expecting to manage even high-volume warehouse operations, there is a seamless extension to support you, SAP Extended Warehouse Management
Advanced Analytics: Gain deeper insights into customer behavior, identify trends, and personalize marketing campaigns for targeted customer engagement.
Scalability on Demand: The cloud-based nature of SAP S/4HANA allows you to easily scale your system up as your business grows.

What is the SAP Cloud ERP solution delivered by Navigator?

A ready-to-run, fit-to-standard cloud ERP solution that delivers the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation
An intelligent, cloud-based ERP that optimizes processes, increases agility and improves product and service quality.
Key features of a future-proof solution:
- Proven best practices
- Fast time to value
- Automatic and continual updates
- Continuous innovation
- Security, compliance, and scalability
- Open and extensible

Extending your solution with SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP)

Integrate landscapes and connect processes and experiences to help business users make decisions with confidence.

Tap the power of the SAP Integration Suite, an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS), for connecting and automating business processes with pre-built integrations, APIs, connectors, and best practices.
What does SAP’s BTP for integration offer?
- Integration principles - predefined, open, holistic, ai-driven
- 750+ pre-built integrations to S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- 700+ pre-built, open APIs
- Consistent security and identity management
- Accelerations - connectors, methodologies, standards, process maps, & AI assist

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As your consumer products company grows, your SAP solution grows with you. In other words, you will never outgrow SAP.

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a modern warehouse that must respond quickly to changing business conditions. With our modern, flexible warehouse management system (WMS), you can manage a high volume of goods and run sustainable, risk-resilient operations with digitalized warehouse processes in the cloud.

Explore Extended Warehouse Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

With PLM software from SAP, you can build a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain that provides actionable information, supports product innovation, and empowers people.

Explore Product Lifecycle Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

The SAP Service Cloud portfolio revolutionizes customer service management by creating meaningful connections throughout the customer journey.

Explore Service Cloud

eCommerce Integrations

Smoothly integrate with SAP ERP with pre-built or custom eCommerce integrations.

Amazon
Ebay
Hybris (via Data Workbench)
Magento, Magento 2.1
Shopify
Volusion
WooCommerce
ChannelAdvisor, and more. . .

Digital Manufacturing Cloud

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is for manufacturers of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. It is particularly well-suited for manufacturers who are looking to improve their production efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the quality of their products.

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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Robust back-end EDI for SAP ERP provides an instant two-way connection between internal business systems and your trading partners without an expensive software setup.

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SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Leverage the power of data to seamlessly record and transparently report on your sustainability initiatives, all while achieving them on a larger scale. Record. Report. Act.

Explore SAP's Sustainability Control Tower

SAP Supplier Network and Supplier Portal

Broaden your supplier base while improving communication and collaboration.

Companies can find localized terms and conditions for procurement, the SAP supplier code of conduct, and other information about doing business with SAP and our affiliates. We build sustainable relationships with our suppliers to help fulfill our operational needs, stimulate economic growth in the communities we serve, and satisfy the expectations of our stakeholders.

Explore the SAP Supplier Portal

Extended Warehouse Management

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a modern warehouse that must respond quickly to changing business conditions. With our modern, flexible warehouse management system (WMS), you can manage a high volume of goods and run sustainable, risk-resilient operations with digitalized warehouse processes in the cloud.

Explore Extended Warehouse Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

With PLM software from SAP, you can build a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain that provides actionable information, supports product innovation, and empowers people.

Explore Product Lifecycle Management

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

The SAP Service Cloud portfolio revolutionizes customer service management by creating meaningful connections throughout the customer journey.

Explore Service Cloud

eCommerce Integrations

eCommerce Integrations

Smoothly integrate with SAP ERP with pre-built or custom eCommerce integrations.

Amazon
Ebay
Hybris (via Data Workbench)
Magento, Magento 2.1
Shopify
Volusion
WooCommerce
ChannelAdvisor, and more. . .

Digital Manufacturing Cloud

Digital Manufacturing Cloud

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is for manufacturers of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. It is particularly well-suited for manufacturers who are looking to improve their production efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the quality of their products.

Explore Digital Manufacturing Cloud

EDI Integrations

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Robust back-end EDI for SAP ERP provides an instant two-way connection between internal business systems and your trading partners without an expensive software setup.

Explore EDI Integrations

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Leverage the power of data to seamlessly record and transparently report on your sustainability initiatives, all while achieving them on a larger scale. Record. Report. Act.

Explore SAP's Sustainability Control Tower

SAP Supplier Network and Supplier Portal

SAP Supplier Network and Supplier Portal

Broaden your supplier base while improving communication and collaboration.

Companies can find localized terms and conditions for procurement, the SAP supplier code of conduct, and other information about doing business with SAP and our affiliates. We build sustainable relationships with our suppliers to help fulfill our operational needs, stimulate economic growth in the communities we serve, and satisfy the expectations of our stakeholders.

Explore the SAP Supplier Portal

Benefits of SAP Cloud ERP inherent features:

Scalability and Agility: The cloud-based nature allows distributors to easily scale their systems up or down to meet fluctuating demand, a key advantage for growth-focused businesses.
Reduced IT Costs: Eliminate the need for expensive hardware and IT infrastructure, freeing up resources for investments in core business initiatives.
Enhanced Security: Robust security features ensure the protection of sensitive business data and intellectual property.
Faster Time to Value: The rapid implementation process of SAP S/4HANA allows distributors to see a return on their investment (ROI) quicker.

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Understanding the Grow with SAP Program

The Grow with SAP program connects clients with the right solution, implementation and support partner, and community so the solutions you implement meet your needs now and in the future, for your industry. The program is designed to help growth-focused firms adopt cloud ERP with speed, predictability, and continuous innovation - at a reasonable cost.
When you partner with Navigator Business Solutions, you’re not just getting an implementation partner. We provide on-going technology consulting and support services to all our clients.
When it comes to helping clients get the most out of their SAP Business software and meet their specific business needs. Navigator has a program that helps identify the ongoing services needed to allow our clients to operate efficiently and profitably by leveraging the power of technology.

Learn more about the Grow with SAP program.

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