Is a market defined by margin pressures and customer demand for service straining your business operations? It's no wonder you're focused on efficiency and growth – differentiating your company through innovation and building economies of scale.

To manage operational complexities – and sustain growth in an uncertain economy – midsize companies like yours can consolidate IT systems with SAP solutions for:

• Supplier integration – Engage in collaborative forecasting with suppliers and customers, and better manage supplier-related activities.
• Visibility into transactions – Track key information from customers, suppliers, and logistics service providers, and provide accurate, real-time views into all transactions.
• Cost control – Maximize margins by controlling costs throughout the order-to-cash cycle.
• Value-added services – Identify your most profitable customers, and offer them the high-margin, value-added services that keep them loyal.

SAP solutions give businesses like yours the breadth of visibility, integration, and process support they need to control costs, maximize margins, and sustain profitable growth. In fact, over 1,600 wholesale companies run SAP solutions. And it may interest you to know that more than half of those are midsize companies.

SAP can help you:

• Improve collaboration with customers and suppliers
• Optimize inventory service levels and forecast inventory demand
• Manage and share information stored in multiple locations, providing real-time views into all business transactions
• Support customer RFID requirements
• Optimize your warehouse distribution channel
• Streamline warehouse, transportation, and order management operations
• Standardize and streamline your accounting practices and financial and profitability reporting processes
• Identify and rank your most profitable customers
• Deliver value-added services such as vendor-managed inventory and detailed invoicing, and track and analyze the profitability of these offerings

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Learn more about how SAP solutions have made a real difference to midsize distributors. Read some of our customer references.