Benefits to Manufacturers
Timely and accurate visibility into the sales and distribution channel is critical to enable manufactures to make timely decisions that affect day-to-day operations as well as more strategic business decisions. ChannelBiz Visibility enables:
  • Better inventory planning for the channel
  • Immediate notification of inventory stoking issues in the channel
  • Accurate sales and inventory forecast from the channel partners for production planning
Channel sales information can also be consolidated to:
  • Enable accurate channel profiling
  • Plan more effective marketing campaigns
  • Identify inefficient channel partner operations
  • Affect customer satisfaction
Benefits to Partners
Channel partners There is generally no incentive for channel partners to provide timely and accurate information to manufacturers as they consider it a one-way flow of information that benefits the manufacturer only. In addition, the process of data submission is both laborious and time consuming, as channel partners need to cater to the numerous types of data and system requirements dictated by the multitude of manufacturers that supply products to them.

ChannelBiz Visibility provides value-added information back to the partners by providing partners with the "Big Picture". This is especially important for partners who have multiple physical sites with separate tracking systems. ChannelBiz Visibility also provides reports to reflect ranking performance with other distributors in the region or globally. These are useful feedback for partners to further streamline and optimize their distribution business. This information enables partners to:

  • Improve cash flow
  • Forecast Inventory needs
  • Plan product mix

In addition, ChannelBiz Visibility formalizes and simplifies the process by providing the partner with a tool that enables a one-time extraction of information from their ERP systems, which can be formatted and processed for submission to more than one supplier/manufacturer.



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