Distribution

The distribution industry

 

Distributors are the middlemen between manufacture and retail, who exist only to provide logistical and other services as well as financial value-add to their supplier customers. Distributors have long relied on sophisticated technologies to automate warehousing and logistical processes to squeeze out supply chain costs and maintain profitability. But now with sky-high fuel prices and lower demand pressuring bottom lines, they are looking at inward-facing operations with a tech-savvy eye. They are integrating electronic document management (EDM) functionality into their core processes to automatically disseminate web-based forms, documents, and customized reports to suppliers and their end customers.

 

In many cases EDM replaces far more expensive, time-intensive communications protocols, dramatically reducing costs while increasing operating efficiencies and compliance.

S4i solves workflow headaches and cuts distribution costs by:

•  Enabling scanning and indexing of documents such as bills of lading, proofs of delivery, claims, and claims photos from multiple geographic locations for easy retrieval

•  Streamlining and integrating business processes: such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and human resources to increase efficiencies and security•  Reducing revenue cycle times and realizing vendor discounts via timely payments

•  Reducing or eliminating pre-printed forms by transitioning them to paperless business processes, saving on material, operating, and distribution costs

•  Improving customer satisfaction by regular dissemination of customer specified reports, and also by efficient retrieval of customer requests, such as expediting specialized merchandising requirements

About S4i Express

S4i Express is a fully integrated System i report and document management system that automates all document processing enterprise wide. Because of its scalability, completeness, and cost/value benefit, S4i Express is the preferred System i EDM offering. Most organizations realize ROI in less than a year and some as soon as 3 months.