Achieving operational excellence for wholesale distribution businesses can be challenging.
Operationally excellent distributors are using ERP to tackle disintermediation in their industries by setting up business strategies that allow them to be more effective, consistent, and react quicker to disruption.
Understanding the flow of value to customers is the key to achieving operational excellence
Being stuck in the middle of the supply chain between manufacturers and commercial customers, wholesale distributors have seen margins erode due to changing market conditions and the targeted reduction intermediaries from both ends of the supply chain.
Mapping the flow of value via customer experience is what many distributors are doing to improve operating profits.
Key benefits of utilising ERP to reach operational excellence
Reduce your operating costs by minimising errors in quoting, fulfilment, and operations
Improve sales forecasting accuracy with product configurator and available to promise
Increase working capital efficiency with demand planning and supply chain management
Klugo Solution Map for Wholesale Distribution
Klugo’s end-to-end solution supports wholesale distributors to increase margins whilst lowering costs and freeing resources to offer a high-quality service. By achieving operational excellence, you can offer a flow of value to your customers at both ends of the ever-changing supply chain.
An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution like NetSuite for wholesale distribution measurably improves your operating performance giving you an advantage in a crowded marketplace. With one system, you can manage your entire customer journey, improve your decision-making, and grow your business.
NetSuite ERP
Order management
NetSuite ERP
Financial management
NetSuite ERP
Project and job accounting
NetSuite ERP
Supply chain management
NetSuite ERP
Warehouse and fulfilment
NetSuite CRM
Sales force automation
NetSuite CRM
Opportunity management
NetSuite MES
Production Management
NextService FSM
Field force automation
NextService FSM
Schedule and dispatch
NextService FSM
Planned maintenance
NextService FSM
Asset management
Verenia CPQ
Product configurator
NetSuite ERP
Financial management
NetSuite ERP
Order management
NetSuite ERP
Project and job accounting
NetSuite ERP
Supply chain management
NetSuite ERP
Warehouse and fulfilment
NetSuite CRM
Sales force automation
NetSuite CRM
Opportunity management
NetSuite MES
Production Management
NextService FSM
Field force automation
NextService FSM
Schedule and dispatch
NextService FSM
Planned maintenance
NextService FSM
Asset management
Verenia CPQ
Product configurator
Enterprise Resource Planning
With distribution ERP software you can manage logistics operations as well as front- and back-office activities. Determine product demand and ensure that you deliver on time. Control all your inventory, warehousing, and logistics in one place.
Financial management 
Report product level gross margin contribution in your financial reports. Manage your business with financial, operational and customer metrics on one page.
Track and correlate integrated operational business intelligence key performance indicators like inventory turn, shrinkage, working capital, day sales outstanding (DSO) and returns.
Order Management 
From quote to fulfilment with integrated freight. Supports 3PL and multi address shipping from.
Project and job accounting
Project management and accounting for installations. Job and service contracts profitability.
Supply Chain Management 
Purchasing and supplier performance reporting. Demand planning with sales order and promotional campaign forecast.
Warehouse and fulfilment 
Directed put away, wave and batch picking. Serial and lot tracking. Multi-location hierarchical distribution replenishment.
By implementing ERP technology, distributors seeking to be operationally excellent can take a data-driven look at their processes and identify bottlenecks and redundant activities, maximising inventory turns and Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment (GMROI).
Customer Relationship Management
CRM provides distributors with layers of technology automating sales processes from the back-office to on-site, integrating all systems for decision–support through the complete customer experience. NetSuite offers a multi-channel sales engine that can provide a fully operational level of engagement and cost–to–service for all clients, from the more impromptu to the high touch large customers.
Sales force automation 
Sales conversion tracking from quote to cash. Multiple price levels, product group price and volume discounts.
Opportunity management 
Manufacturing Execution System
NetSuite MES module helps distributors to simplify the order process and provide a seamless customer experience. Manage complex orders with a multi-level bill of materials and automate sales processes that directly integrate freight bookings and costs.
Production Management 
Work order management with multi-level bill of materials and costing.
Operationally excellent distributors shift the inventory business model toward proactive management of their inventory, motivating staff to reduce costs and provide superior customer service.
Field Service Management
Real-time data adds clarity to both short-term forecasting and long-term strategising, enabling wholesale distributors, as well as their sales reps, to always stay on top of market demand. NextService FSM technology ensures that live information flows to support data-driven decitions in the field and in the office.
Scheduling and Dispatch 
Service request and programmed maintenance scheduling for technicians, crews, or sun-contractors.
Field Service Automation
Mobile device job management, checklist, and dynamic forms. Timesheet, expenses, quotes, and sales from the field.
Planned Maintenance  
Asset Maintenance 
Configure Price Quote
A Salesforce survey stated that in 2020, 75% of B2B buyers expected to receive a personalised experience from their wholesale suppliers and that this experience included dynamic delivery with real-time automation. CPQ systems can help automate complex work order management.
Dynamic BOM and routing
Eliminate BOM templates. Eliminate and build work orders and routes from options selected in the product configurator.
Product Configurator 
Guided sales quote generation for configuring products with options, conditional selections and pricing.
Klugo are committed to our customers
Achieving operational excellence for our customers is at the core of what we aim to do. Our mission is to help customers achieve operational excellence using NetSuite + NextService.
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Our customers
Wholesale Distribution Industries
Although we can help most wholesale distributors to achieve operational excellence utilising the Best-in-Class ERP solution for Australia and New Zealand, we have strong expertise in the following wholesale distribution industries:
Machinery and Equipment
A complete solution for machinery and equipment distribution businesses designed to create streamlined customer engagement, product tracking, fast fulfilment and more for distribution businesses. Our solution caters for distributors who also perform service, maintenance and warranties.
Motor Vehicle and Parts
Streamline the distribution of motor vehicles and parts with NetSuite ERP. Klugo offer a complete solution for motor vehicles and parts distributors to completely manage production, track supplier/vendors and monitor the flow of inventory through to delivery to help them run a profitable and scalable business.
Construction Supplies
Our solution for distributors of supplies for construction, building management and renovations offers a single source of data to power their entire distribution chain. From CRM, resourcing, payroll, job costing and more, Klugo can help distributors to streamline their supply strategies for the construction industry.
Klugo’s NetSuite ERP implementation
We have selected the worlds leading cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite + NextService as our business platform of choice to help Australian businesses achieve operational excellence. Why? Because cloud business platforms are future proof, this enables our customers take advantage of emerging IoT and AI technologies.Â