B2B Buyer for Distributors

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Capabilities:
  • Allows distributors to connect electronically to their manufacturers' and suppliers' software solutions to view inventory and pricing information, monitor order status, and execute electronic funds transfers
  • Allows distributors to send orders to manufacturers/suppliers in a few short keystrokes
  • Allows distributors to send documents to manufacturers with their own item codes
  • Enables distributors to receive real-time price updates from their manufacturers
Benefits:
  • Eliminates re-keying and the associated costly errors
  • Decreased lead times on products and increased service levels from the manufacturers
  • Streamlines processes with manufacturers/suppliers
  • Improves customer service
  • Fosters good relationships between distributors and their manufacturers/suppliers
  • More timely and accurate price changes reduce costing errors

As an independent distributor, you know how important it is to maintain good - and efficient - relationships with the companies that manufacture and supply your products. B2B Buyer, a component of Activant Trading Partner Connect, an Internet trading network, facilitates the relationships and procurement processes between manufacturers and distributors.

Trading Partner Connect streamlines the commerce process between you and your manufacturers/suppliers and end-users, thereby increasing sales and improving customer service while reducing operating costs. As a distributor, you benefit from dead stock reduction, lower EDI VAN costs, and access to millions of items, enabling you to compete on a larger scale and improve customer service.

Real time, all the time

B2B Buyer lets distributors electronically query manufacturers for price and availability information, monitor order status, and execute electronic funds transfers. Also, B2B Buyer uses functionalities of other components of Trading Partner Connect to ensure that all transactions comply with the trading terms - i.e., contract prices, volume breaks, etc. - that have been pre-negotiated by the trading partners.

B2B Buyer exploits the supply chain to everyone's advantage. With vendor managed inventory (VMI) or distributor manufacturer integration (DMI) via B2B Buyer, manufacturers and suppliers receive updates on how much of their product a distributor has in stock so they can plan production cycles - which translates into lower costs for the distributor. Distributors also have the opportunity to view and download all of their manufacturers' latest price updates from Trading Partner Connect.

Keep Your Customers Happy

With B2B Buyer, your system is integrated with your manufacturers' ERP systems - which means that you can locate products in their inventories almost instantly. With this ability, you can improve your customer service by letting end-users know what you have access to - and when they will receive their orders. Also with B2B Buyer, every transaction is processed with only a few short keystrokes. Purchase information flows through your enterprise software solution and the process is tracked through shipment and billing. Distributors have immediate access to all information related to purchases, from order through shipment - without ever having to pick up the phone.

Clean Documents

With B2B Buyer technology, you have the ability to send your manufacturer/supplier documents with the correct rationalized item codes. This helps keep your expenses down by keeping your manufacturers' order processing costs low and ensures you get the right product, on time, every time.

With Trading Partner Connect B2B Buyer, distributors can improve customer service while improving relationships with their manufacturers/suppliers using leading edge Activant technology.

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