Distribution Best Practices Webinar Series

Join our upcoming educational Distribution Best Practice Webinar Series! These webinars are constructed to offer the latest updates and best practices for all aspects of consumer goods distribution.

On-Demand Past Sessions:

Enhance Operational Decision Making and Improve Supply Chain Efficiency »

For consumer goods distributors, making informed, strategic decisions is vital to your competitive advantage. And an important key to improving your decision making is by having access to in-depth, real-time data. This session covers how business intelligence software integrated with your ERP can help achieve full business visibility for better reporting and operational analysis and much more.

Improving Pricing Accuracy & Flexibility »

Pricing accuracy is essential to profitability. But many consumer goods distributors struggle with the inefficiency of having to manually price orders and review EDI orders for pricing accuracy. This session will discuss how to improve pricing accuracy and flexibility when it comes to managing multiple price books, including account and timeframe-specific pricing, tiers, volume discounts, closeouts and specials.

Automating Customer Consignments »

Are you tracking customer consignments manually or via a virtual warehouse? Keeping track of product that’s not physically on your premises can be tricky, but the right functionality can automate this process and ensure you always have up-to-date inventory levels at your fingertips. Join this session to learn how to strengthen your consignment inventory management by streamlining order fulfillment processes, enabling seamless communication with customers and creating a process flow to meet trading partners' needs efficiently.

Managing Customer Forecasts »

Bearing recent events in mind, now is the perfect time to evaluate whether your ERP system has the functionality to keep you informed of which items and orders may be delayed, and what issues may arise as a result. This session will cover how you can improve visibility into your customer forecasts by providing inventory positions in a time phased view, taking changes into account in real-time, and alerting buyers to inventory shortages.

Challenges of Being a Drop Ship Vendor »

For most consumer goods importers and distributors, keeping up with direct-to-consumer orders and shipments has never been more important - or more challenging. Join this session to learn about some of the challenges of being a drop ship vendor and specific best practices to tackle those challenges.

Simplifying Customer Profitability Analysis »

There are many costs that often go unseen in terms of analyzing how profitable it is to do business with each of your customers. We’ll show you how you can see customer profitability on a real-time basis, which includes all the extra costs associated with the customer.

Managing Compliance Requirements & Shipping Challenges »

This session discusses common retailer compliance requirements with a focus on the impact to shipping product out the door. Key areas of focus include trading partner routing and label requirements, all things direct to-consumer and some warehouse pick strategies that support efficient outbound processing.

WMS Challenges of the Busy Season »

For many consumer goods importers and distributors there was an increase in direct to consumer (DTC) shipping over the past year. This session explores some of the WMS challenges many experienced over the busy season, such as inefficiencies with retrieving product to fulfill orders, packing and labeling outbound shipments, and capturing data such as tracking numbers.

Benefits of Having Built-In EDI »

EDI isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity when it comes to working with mass merchant retailers. And finding the right EDI partner can be a huge challenge. This webinar discusses the benefits of having EDI functionality built into your ERP solution - resulting in more accurate, real-time data, the ability to use a single vendor and the chance to offload tedious EDI tasks from your team.

Reasons to Utilize a Supplier Portal »

Having real-time updates from your suppliers and partners is vital. But what if your vendors were able to input information right into your ERP without the need for emails back and forth? This session will discuss the benefits of having a Supplier Portal integrated directly into your ERP, including more accurate data, real-time updates on shipments, improved efficiency and the ability to keep customers better-informed.

Calculating Landed Costs »

Determining the landed costs on your products is a critical step in understanding your true profitability. This session will cover how the right ERP solution can help you gain visibility into your true landed costs to gauge profitability on each of your products and customers, and gain visibility into areas like: agency fees, shipping expenses, customs fees, duties by harmonization codes, taxes and insurance organized by product, unit, volume, supplier or location.

Improving Visibility into Allowances & Discounts »

Managing and tracking all your various customer’s allowable deductions and allowances is important, but not always easy. This session covers how to improve visibility into these aspects of your organization by: managing allowance rules in one central location, having access to all real-time transactions that impact deductions taken/not taken, and analyzing the impact on either customer or product profitability.

Chargeback & Deduction Management »

Chargebacks and other retailer fees can make a serious impact on your profitability as they add up. And with the challenges of today’s global marketplace, it’s critical for importers and distributors to be able to track and dispute deductions to see where margins can be improved. This session will look at how advanced distribution ERP can help you to better analyze your true profitability in real-time, factor in easy-to-miss costs and deductions and quickly determine which customer and products are most profitable.

Automating & Streamlining Payment Processes »

When your customers pay you, you want to recognize that revenue as soon as possible – but traditional payment processes are far from efficient. And can often mean you having to manually enter them into your distribution ERP system. This session will look at how integrating an online payment platform with advanced ERP software can help you to recognize revenue faster, automate accounting processes, streamline operations and transform the way you run your distribution business.

Drive Online Revenue & Streamline Fulfillment Processes »

As a consumer goods distributor, providing a phenomenal customer experience is key to your competitive advantage. This session will show how integrating a scalable ecommerce platform with advanced ERP software can help you: provide accurate, up to date product information and offers, capture new orders automatically and begin fulfillment processes, provide current order status, tracking numbers and real-time shipping updates – all while driving revenue, streamlining processes and delivering an engaging experience for you and your customers.