Inform ERP provides distributors with the ability to drive operational excellence, improve margins, and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. It incorporates critical modern distribution requirements with the capacity to handle most supply chain integrations like CRM, eCommerce, advanced inventory forecasting, and a powerful price matrix.
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Leading-Edge ERP Software Made for the Wholesale Distribution Industry
DDI System’s connected ERP technology and industry-specific functionality provide distributors with the ability to drive operational excellence, improve margins, and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. Our easy-to-adopt distribution management system meets the changing nature of the wholesale distribution industry. From daily operations to mobile workers, DDI System incorporates today’s critical distribution requirements with the capacity to handle almost any supply chain integration including CRM, eCommerce, advanced inventory forecasting, and a powerful price matrix.
Accurate Financial Management
Take control of your accounting and financials with DDI Systems:
- Get intelligent insight into account and financial reports that enable distributors to drive out costs.
- Easily reconcile bank accounts and statements and view details of underlying transactions for any item with drill-down capabilities.
- Eliminate time-consuming end-of-day/month postings while maintaining access to all of your historical accounting data.
- Save time and money with paper and file-free workflows plus reprint, fax or email documents on demand.
Advanced Inventory Management
Make smarter decisions with accurate inventory insight and demand forecasting tools in DDI System. Our distribution ERP solution includes powerful forecast algorithms, easy-to-use exception management, and unique, intuitive purchasing screens to help you reduce inventory levels and carrying costs, eliminate dead stock, increase inventory turns and order fill rates, streamline multi-location inventory, and combat variable supply and demand.
Streamlined Order Fulfillment
Complete the entire order entry process in just a few clicks for maximum profitability. With DDI System, you can easily move from quote to order, or order to quote, expedite order processing, check stock, research linked purchase orders, verify shipping preferences and more in one single sales order control panel.
- Increase your speed of sale when handling orders with quick search capabilities.
- Streamline the order process with automated proof of delivery, signature capture, and advanced POS processing components.
- Easily manage warranty claims.
Strategic Customer Pricing
For a distributor, pricing is by far the most powerful lever for increasing profits. DDI System delivers multi-dimensional price flexibility, allowing your sales force to be more efficient and effective by tailoring pricing to each customer and situation. Our solution includes:
- Strategic Margin Protection – Effortlessly build individual customer pricing and automatically maintain sell prices based on the previous sales’ profit margin without the need to set up contracts or matrices.
- Built-in Price Matrix – Quickly import hundreds of products, update list prices and costs, and easily set up unlimited scenarios using our multi-tiered price matrix to maximize profitability and support customer-specific promotions.
- Customer Rebate Tracking – Manage customer net pricing, vendor rebated costs, and vendor rebated cost load. Contract/rebate costs can be used in conjunction with a separate sell price matrix or with separate margin-based customer prices for a uniquely low-maintenance rebate management system.
Paperless Workflows
Save costs and increase efficiency across your entire organization by streamlining paperwork flow with electronic document scanning and signature capture. DDI System safely stores important documents online and includes simplified document scanning and automatic signature capture to help distributors evolve to a paperless operation and reduce time spent processing orders.
Embedded Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Having the right information at the right time strengthens customer relationships, fosters loyalty, and allows your team to provide superior service over competitors. With DDI System’s embedded CRM, wholesale distributors gain a 360° view of department-specific operations, can track detailed contact engagement, rank customers for growth, identify growth opportunities and resolve business issues with live reporting. Our unique calendar with related transactions, contacts, and activity tracking helps sales reps manage their territory, grow their business, and continually track performance levels.
Intuitive Drill-Down Reporting
DDI System’s intuitive, drill-down reporting capabilities and role-specific dashboards keep you aware of trends while diving into every aspect of your business for complete operational and financial awareness. Avoid potential pitfalls and give your team the confidence to make actionable business decisions based on deep insight into key business metrics with:
- Hundreds of pre-built reporting templates developed by wholesale distribution experts.
- Easy-to-create custom reports and KPI graphs in a few clicks.
- Tailored dashboards to fit every user’s needs, including sales, inventory, and receivables.
- Quick report sharing and collaboration, automatic scheduling, and instant access to mobile reports from anywhere.
Warehouse Logistics
DDI System’s extensive warehouse management module combines all the essential functionality you need to efficiently dispatch trucks, keep inventory in check, track multiple PO container shipments, and simplify workflow automation. Our solution includes:
- A drag-and-drop delivery truck dispatch system to streamline the daily task of building efficient delivery routes.
- Scheduled cycle counting to maintain visibility and control over your inventory at all times.
- Technology to monitor, manage, and receive multiple containers.
- Workflow automation and label printing to automate the process of special order items and streamline warehouse activity tasks.
Realize ROI Faster with Advantive
DDI System is a flexible ERP solution that strengthens the most successful distributors with an integrated suite of order fulfillment, strategic pricing, customer relationship management, and demand forecasting tools. As part of the Advantive family, DDI System users can fully leverage our extensive distribution industry expertise, reliable support, and seamless integrations to drive profitability and cost reductions in an ever-evolving, customer-connected environment.
Customer Care
Get access to a real-time customer portal, phone support, extensive documentation, an online how-to video library, plus an interactive client help center.
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Hands-On Training
Take advantage of ongoing training webinars, our interactive user portal, and an active online community to boost your knowledge and ROI.
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Extend Your DDI System Software with Advanced Functionality
Leverage the latest technology trends to reach the next level of success. DDI System offers advanced modules that deliver automation, productivity, and control to better meet your company’s growing needs.
- Connected B2B and B2C eCommerce
- Wireless Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Mobile Solutions
- Electronic Signature Capture
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Integrations
- Vendor Management Inventory
Case Study: Johnstone Supply Grows Sales Through the Versatility of Inform ERP Software
It’s amazing to have all the tools that can be used to help our company grow. We find something new everyday that has helped us with our sales team.
Barb Redinger, Credit Manager
