B2B Buyer for Manufacturers

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Capability:
  • Allows manufacturers to connect their ERP system directly to their distributors' over a secure Internet network
Benefits:
  • Streamlined transaction processes
  • Reduced costs
  • Fewer errors
  • Improved customer service
  • Increased sales
  • Enhanced communication

As a manufacturer, you've probably seen the costs of doing business with your distributors rise continually over the past decade. But, with B2B Buyer, a component of Activant Trading Partner Connect, you can reduce transactional expenses, increase customer satisfaction, and eliminate many of your day-to-day headaches and hassles.

Trading Partner Connect streamlines the commerce process between manufacturers, their distributors, and end-users, thereby increasing sales and improving customer service, while reducing operating costs. Trading Partner Connect B2B Buyer can help enhance manufacturer-distributor relationships. And, because of better manufacturer-distributor communications, manufacturers' ability to predict consumer product usage is vastly improved.

B2B Buyer Transaction Benefits

With Trading Partner Connect B2B Buyer, orders flow directly from your distributors' enterprise software solutions into yours - eliminating time-consuming and costly re-keying errors. Also, since invoices are electronically transmitted, your printing, paper, and mailing costs are reduced, and typical mailing delays and processing delays are eliminated - which can shorten accounts receivable days.

Improve Customer Service

Trading Partner Connect B2B Buyer allows distributors to see into your ERP system for stock availability information - reducing the amount of time your customer service representatives spend answering routine telephone inquiries. Also, the time they would normally spend on data and order entry is cut dramatically, because distributors expedite orders from their own desktops. Your employees' newfound free time can be refocused on other activities - like driving additional sales.

You can also help distributors help themselves by linking information about products and related items to offerings in your online catalog. With this information, distributors can learn more about product offerings - and make better recommendations to their customers.

Supply Chain Collaboration Benefits

Information is processed through Trading Partner Connect in real-time, allowing for speedy transactions and quick retrieval and analysis of distributors' information. As a manufacturer, you can use this information to remove excess inventory from the supply chain and schedule production with greater accuracy.

Because of these capabilities, Trading Partner Connect enables manufacturers to more efficiently facilitate the vendor managed inventory (VMI) process, lowering distributors' costs and streamlining the manufacturing process.

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