Built specifically for the needs of the evolving wholesale distribution industry, CloudSuite Distribution is a comprehensive enterprise service that weaves innovation into core competencies with unmatched flexibility to better serve customers, outpace the competition, and expand profitability. With CloudSuite Distribution, companies can optimize every facet of their operations—from sales, inventory and warehouse management, financials, omnichannel engagement, value-add services, and more.
Designed to provide an unmatched user experience, Infor CloudSuite™ Distribution delivers industry-specific capabilities without extensive customizations or integrations by combining the Infor® cloud platform built on infrastructure services from Amazon Web Services® (AWS®) and Infor OS. With CloudSuite Distribution’s critical business applications, distributors can experience automatic upgrades that deliver the latest advances in enterprise functionality.
- Core distribution service. The core enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities within CloudSuite Distribution deliver everything distributors need, including quote and order management, advanced inventory management, pricing optimization, financials, purchasing, value-add services, and more.
- Business intelligence and analytics. Harness the power of distribution-specific business intelligence (BI) and a business analytics service that can understand and optimize complex processes in less time than traditional BI solutions.
- Pricing science. Pricing science gives distributors the ability to generate data-driven prices to increase overall margins while ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Proof of delivery. Organize the delivery of multiple orders within a customized route, as well as capture, display, and store customer signatures using a manager app and a convenient, handheld driver app.
- Infor Implementation Accelerator for Distribution. Get up and running quickly with preconfigured distribution business processes and data models, user-defined menus, and distribution-specific training.
- Users can extend the core solution with prebuilt integrations using Infor technology, including:
- Service and rental integrates advanced service-focused functionality—such as scheduling and mobile accessibility—into CloudSuite Distribution. Distributors can expand revenue streams through equipment rental with advanced functionality to help manage rental equipment inventory, rental contract agreements, and support for various rental rates and billing frequency.
- Storeroom management. Distributors can manage customers’ indirect material and machine supplies by monitoring the warehouse space.
- Project job management. Manage numerous bids within a project.
- Financial reporting and analysis that provides a real-time view of business information.
- Enterprise analytics. Personalized metrics for roles or individual users who need to create their own KPIs or create and edit metrics.
- Document capture. Process documents digitally, intelligently classify them, and extract data.
- Warehouse Logistics. Gain unprecedented visibility into inventory, orders, equipment, and people to improve accuracy and enrich service levels.
- Application development. Rapidly build and deploy an app for the business using a browser-based development tool.
- E-commerce delivers a rich, online shopping experience to transform omnichannel customer engagement.
Infor OS provides Infor CloudSuite Distribution customers a comprehensive technology platform of services to choose from, which serve as a unifying foundation for an industrial enterprise’s entire business ecosystem.
- Infor’s data lake, a unified repository for capturing enterprise data, ensures data fidelity, governance, security, and access.
- Data and system governance through governance, risk, and compliance capabilities.
- Seamless integration in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid deployments with Infor’s advanced, integrated platform as a service (PaaS) capabilities and API gateway.
- Extensibility to create the right experience with minimal coding with Infor’s developer tools.
- An enhanced user experience with single sign-on and real-time, organization-wide visibility.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning to attain enterprise goals.
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