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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 Wholesale Distribution?

The wholesale market moves fast. Your SAP solutions must too. We deliver specialised wholesale expertise and rapid deployment of powerful SAP analytics, enabling real-time inventory visibility, optimised working capital, and robust margin control.

Trusted partner to leading wholesale distributors across Europe.

Deep SAP analytics expertise tailored for demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, and end-to-end order-to-cash management.

Fast-track implementations using proven SAP methodologies for high-volume order processing and complex supply network integration.

Experienced in integrating fragmented systems (ERPs, WMS, transport) into a single platform for complete end-to-end visibility.

Support for controlling margin erosion with detailed cost-to-serve analysis and profitability modelling using SAP PaPM.

Services

Notium Services for Wholesale Distribution

Specialised SAP consulting services designed to help distributors optimise working capital, streamline fulfilment, and improve margins.

Project Implementation

End-to-end SAP implementation (SAC, IBP, PaPM, Datasphere) tailored for wholesale, focusing on rapid integration of your order-to-cash and inventory systems.

Back on Track Service

A structured 6-step recovery process to get struggling SAP supply chain, inventory, or finance projects back on schedule and delivering value.

Team Up Services – Wholesale Expertise

Embed our expert SAP consultants into your team to accelerate critical projects like demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, or cost-to-serve analysis.

Tailored SAP Training

Practical, hands-on training for your teams, focused on wholesale-specific processes like SAP IBP for demand planning and PaPM for profitability.

SAP Support Desk for Wholesale

Responsive SAP support built for the high-volume, fast-paced needs of distribution, ensuring minimal disruption to your order and fulfilment systems.

QA & Compliance Review

Independent audits of your SAP stack to validate inventory data accuracy, order-to-cash process integrity, and supply network data models.

Our Other Services & Solutions

Unlock additional SAP capabilities tailored for the evolving needs of Wholesale

Additional Wholesale 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 Wholesale Services

Project Implementation

Back on track Service

Quality Assurance Service

Support Desk Service

Training

Frequently Asked Questions about SAP Solutions for Wholesale

Notium focuses on the industry's main pressures: managing high order volumes with tight delivery windows, inventory optimisation to control working capital, integrating fragmented systems (ERPs, WMS), and combating margin pressure through cost transparency.

By using SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and SAC Planning, Notium provides accurate demand forecasting and inventory simulation. This helps to balance stock availability against carrying costs, freeing up working capital.

We implement SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) to conduct detailed cost-to-serve analysis. This identifies the true profitability of specific customers, products, and channels, allowing leadership to protect margins.

Using SAP Datasphere, SAP BW/4HANA, and S/4HANA Embedded Analytics, Notium integrates data from multiple ERPs, warehouses, and transport providers. This creates a single, governed foundation for end-to-end visibility and decision-making.

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