Building Material Retail and Distribution

As the Building industry rebounds, meeting profit margins and customer service pressures will remain very high. Meanwhile, larger retailers are playing a more pro-active role in the recovery and capture of market share with faster and newer products and services. As a result, boutique and specialty Building-Material retailers and distributors need to become more innovative, agile, and profitable. In many cases, these rapid changes in the economy and business models have resulted in disjointed business processes and supply chain inefficiencies-preventing companies from being responsive to their customers’ needs and meeting their full profit potential.

To optimize profitability and compete with larger and more established players in the industry, specialty Building-Material Retailers and Distributors need to possess the supply chain agility that can only be achieved with extreme and immediate visibility in their business. Gaining this visibility requires the leveraging of automation and integration across all critical business processes including those in finance, customer relationship management, purchasing, inventory management, point-of-sales, order management, and warehouse management.

How can these enterprises achieve cost-effective organizational agility?
To begin with, it requires effective financial management, powerful planning, and precise inventory management up and down the supply chain. Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a powerful platform for these critical business processes, along with revealing analytics for full visibility at all levels of the enterprise. It’s a cost-effective and integrated solution that minimizes your implementation efforts by easily plugging into your current IT infrastructure, including specialty point solutions, such as point-of-sale systems.

• Multi-dimensional financial management architecture using data models, assuring the capture of all relevant financial information for products, entities, and categories
• Advanced order management, purchasing and replenishment functions, including promotion management capabilities, deals management, and special project management capabilities for increased sales and forecasting
• Demand planning and management
• Multi-channel marketing and sales management support
• Warehouse management and POS retail solution