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SAP Solutions for the Wholesale Distribution

Empower your wholesale distribution business with SAP solutions that seamlessly integrate order management, inventory, and finance enabling rapid response to customer demand, optimised working capital, and robust compliance across complex supply networks.

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Whole Distribution

The wholesale distribution sector is characterised by intricate supplier networks, high-volume orders, and the need for swift, accurate fulfilment. Notium’s SAP platform delivers real-time visibility into inventory, order flows, and cost structures, allowing distributors to optimise stock levels, streamline fulfilment, and maintain tight control over working capital. By unifying demand forecasting, warehouse management, and financial reporting on a single platform, wholesalers can respond rapidly to market fluctuations, reduce operational errors, and drive sustainable margin improvement across their entire distribution network.

Key Challenges in the Whole Distribution

Distributors face pressure to fulfil large order volumes with minimal lead times while controlling margin erosion and inventory carrying costs. Disparate order-to-cash systems and limited demand visibility impede efficient decision-making, making it essential to adopt a unified, data-driven approach.

High Order Volumes and Tight Delivery Windows

Distributors must efficiently process bulk orders and meet diverse customer service level agreements.

Inventory Optimisation and Working Capital Control

Excess stock ties up capital and increases the risk of obsolescence, while shortages compromise service levels. Accurate demand forecasting and inventory simulation are vital to balance availability and cost.

Fragmented Systems Across Channels and Partners

Multiple ERPs, warehouses, and transport providers often create data silos. End-to-end visibility is required to coordinate supply, optimise routing, and enhance customer satisfaction.

Margin Pressure and Cost Transparency

Rising logistics and procurement costs place pressure on distributor profitability. Detailed cost-to-serve analysis and margin modelling are essential to identify high-value customers and products.

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Suat Ozdemir
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End-to-End SAP Solutions Tailored for Wholesale Distribution

Our comprehensive SAP platform for wholesale distribution unifies demand forecasting, inventory management, order fulfilment, and financial consolidation into a single, integrated system. This enables distributors to synchronise supply and demand, optimise working capital, and maintain full transparency throughout the entire order-to-cash process. By consolidating data from customer orders, warehouse operations, transport networks, and finance, businesses gain the agility to respond swiftly to changing market conditions while ensuring consistent service levels and profitability.

Planning & Consolidation

Optimise replenishment, budget planning, and financial consolidation through integrated demand, supply, and accounting workflows. Adjust forecasts and budgets as market conditions evolve.

Collaborate on demand forecasts, inventory targets, and budget allocations in real time. Run “what-if” scenarios to assess the impact of promotions or supply disruptions.

 

Automate financial consolidation across multiple business units and legal entities. Maintain audit-ready records and enforce consistent accounting policies.

Synchronise sales orders, warehouse allocations, and transport plans on a single cloud platform. Detect potential stock-outs or overstock situations early and rebalance accordingly.

Profitability & Performance

Gain deeper insight into customer, product, and channel profitability. Empower leadership to respond strategically to competitive pressures and cost fluctuations.

Model cost-to-serve for each customer segment, sales channel, and delivery mode. Simulate margin scenarios under varying freight rates and service levels.

Data & Insights

Unify order, inventory, and finance data into a governed foundation. Drive richer analysis, more accurate forecasting, and continuous process improvement across your distribution network.

Integrate on-premise ERP, warehouse, and transportation data with cloud-based sources into a single, trusted layer. Ensure data consistency for all analytics.

Build scalable data warehouses combining historical sales, stock movements, and financial records. Support advanced analytics on demand variability and supply performance.

 

Provide real-time, role-based dashboards within core distribution and finance processes. Empower teams with live KPIs on order fill rates, inventory turns, and cost variances.

Data Visualisation & Reporting

Translate complex distribution data into intuitive dashboards and automated reports; enable stakeholders at all levels to monitor performance, collaborate on strategy and maintain compliance.

Create interactive, real-time dashboards for order book health, warehouse utilisation and delivery performance; support scenario planning and embedded commentary for cross-team alignment.

Produce pixel-perfect, audit-ready reports on P&L, inventory valuation and compliance metrics; ensure consistency and clarity for executive review.

Offer business users drag-and-drop exploration of distribution data—such as channel profitability, service levels and carrier performance without reliance on IT.

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WHY NOTIUM?

Why choose Notium as your SAP partner in Retail & FMCG?

Retail moves quickly. Your SAP solutions should too. We deliver specialised retail expertise and rapid deployment of powerful SAP solutions, enabling agility, growth, and profitability.

Trusted partner of leading retail & FMCG brands

Deep SAP analytics expertise tailored for retail forecasting and omnichannel operations

Fast-track implementations using proven SAP methodologies

Experienced in integrating advanced SAP analytics, forecasting, and profitability tools

Support for compliance with complex ESG and sustainability requirements

Services

Notium Services for Retail & FMCG

Specialised SAP consulting services designed specifically to address Retail & FMCG industry challenges, optimise operations, and accelerate your digital transformation journey.

Project Implementation

End-to-end SAP implementations tailored for Retail & FMCG businesses, ensuring rapid deployment and minimal disruption to your operations.

Back on Track Service for Retail & FMCG

Rapidly recover struggling retail SAP projects. Our structured, industry-focused 6-step recovery approach addresses project bottlenecks swiftly, restoring momentum quickly.

Team Up Services – Retail & FMCG Expertise

Seamlessly integrate expert Notium SAP consultants into your team, who understand retail-specific processes like omnichannel management, sales forecasting, and profitability optimisation.

Tailored SAP Training for Retail Teams

Provide your team with practical, hands-on SAP training explicitly designed for retail processes—covering omnichannel analytics, demand forecasting, and profitability management.

SAP Support Desk for Retail & FMCG

Reliable and responsive SAP support tailored specifically to the fast-paced nature of retail operations, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid issue resolution.

Quality Assurance for Retail SAP Projects

Proactively manage risks, maintain compliance standards, and ensure the success of your retail SAP initiatives through independent QA reviews, strategic assessments, and expert validations.

Our Other Services & Solutions

Unlock additional SAP capabilities tailored for the evolving needs of Retail & FMCG businesses.

Additional Retail & FMCG Solutions

SAP Analytics Cloud Planning & Reporting

SAP Business Planning (SAP BPC)

SAP Disclosure Management

SAP Group Reporting

SAP Business Warehouse

S4/HANA Embedded Analytics

Complementary Retail Services

Project Implementation

Back on track Service

Quality Assurance Service

Support Desk Service

Training

Frequently Asked Questions about SAP Solutions for Retail & FMCG

We offer specialised SAP solutions tailored to retail forecasting, omnichannel analytics, profitability management, and integrated financial planning, including SAP IBP, SAP PaPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Datasphere.

Our SAP solutions unify data across all customer channels, providing real-time insights and predictive analytics—enabling seamless customer experiences and optimised inventory management.

Yes, SAP solutions such as SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Predictive Analytics enable real-time demand forecasting and agile supply chain management, helping retailers rapidly adapt to market changes.

Our SAP consulting helps retailers integrate sustainability metrics directly into their operations, ensuring compliance with ESG standards, transparent reporting, and efficient management of sustainability initiatives.

Notium combines deep sector-specific expertise, proven methodologies, and rapid deployment capabilities—ensuring your SAP investments quickly deliver measurable outcomes for your retail and FMCG business.

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