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Faced with the challenges of growing your business, increasing profits, and dealing with rising customer expectations? Many distributors have attained operational excellence with solutions from SAP. They can minimise costs, maximise performance, and provide profitable growth throughout the cash-to-order process -- quickly and affordably.

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Make Best Practices Work for You

Put industry best practices to work for you. With SAP Best Practices for Wholesale Distribution, you can quickly integrate disparate data sources for better demand forecasting. You'll also gain insight into your most profitable customers to offer them additional services.

SAP Best Practices for Wholesale Distribution delivers implementation procedures, documentation, and preconfigured business scenarios based on SAP's more than 30-year experience helping companies like yours.

Case Studies

	DITAN Achieves Double-Digit Growth Retail distribution services provider, DITAN, offers portal-based, real-time access to processes and information throughout its entire product life cycle. Read the success story (PDF, 161 KB).
	Heads and Threads Up and Running in 7 Months This midsize importer uses the SAP ERP application to track supply and demand across 4,000 customers and 100 vendors and to manage 50,000 SKUs. Read the success story (PDF, 103 KB).
	Chordus Implements SAP in 5 Months The Office Furniture USA division of Chordus uses SAP All-in-One supply chain capabilities to help increase market share by 17.9% and improve on-time delivery by 9.2%. Read the success story (PDF, 130 KB).

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Increase Profitability with SAP
Designed for your industry. Tailored to your business. Scaled to your size. SAP for Wholesale Distribution supports key business processes. Read the wholesale distribution overview (PDF, 168 KB).

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