Industry
ERP for Trading & Distribution
Distribution margin lives in landed cost and price discipline. Both are easy to lose when purchasing, stock and invoicing sit in different systems and freight is apportioned afterwards.
What we hear
The problems that bring people here
True cost unknown
Freight and duty are booked as overhead, so item margin is overstated.
Price leakage
Discounts applied at the counter outside the agreed structure.
Stock in transit invisible
Branch transfers disappear until they are received.
Availability guessed
Orders promised against stock that is already allocated.
The approach
How the system handles them
Landed cost on the item
Freight and duty distributed across the shipment onto item cost.
Price lists enforced
Customer and quantity pricing applied at entry, with approval for exceptions.
In-transit as a location
Transfers are visible while they are moving.
Allocation at order
Availability reflects what is already committed.
What the day-to-day looks like
The sequences that change most when the work moves onto one system.
Purchase to shelf
- Purchase order raised against agreed pricing
- Shipment received with freight and duty distributed
- Item cost updated to landed cost
- Stock available at the receiving branch
Order to delivery
- Order entered against a price list
- Stock allocated and availability updated
- Picked, dispatched and delivered
- Invoice raised and posted
Products for this sector
Modules that typically carry the load — from the product catalog, not duplicated here.
Solutions that fit
Start from the business problem if a module name is not how you think.
Business Management
Run finance, operations and people from one set of records.
Customer Management
One customer record across sales, delivery and finance.
Process Automation
Let approvals, recurring work and routine documents raise themselves.
Business Intelligence
Reporting across every function without an export step.
What changes for a trading & distribution business
- Item margin based on landed cost
- Discount discipline enforced at entry
- Stock in transit visible between branches
- Availability that accounts for allocation
See how BPS supports trading & distribution
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