eBusiness Solutions

Apprise Distribution’s optional eBusiness solutions can help expand your markets, provide real-time sales and service, and increase your sales and customer service representative productivity. Streamlined data management enables ease of implementation and maximum flexibility and control.

Key benefits include:

Increased sales and revenues

• Reduce sale to revenue cycle times by providing sales teams and/or customers with the ability to enter their orders on-line - from anywhere at anytime - with ease.
• Leverage flexible business-to-business and business-to-consumer selling options to grow revenues with existing customers while also exploring new markets.
• Utilize credit card transaction interfaces to capture real-time sales and revenues.

Improved customer service

• Integrated customer specific pricing and discounting enables seamless on-line and off-line quoting and selling.
• On-line inventory capabilities provide sales teams and customers with real-time insight into product availability and allocation.
• Utilize robust on-line inquiries, including order status, delivery options, invoices, account balances, return material authorization, and general on-line help, to give your customers 24/7 access to the tools and information they need.

Business efficiency and profitability gains

• Save time and effort in establishing and managing your on-line application with centralized, fully-integrated data management.
• Improve sales efficiencies by providing flexible access to real-time customer and inventory information.
• Reduce the demands on your limited customer service resources by providing on-line help and service options that empower your customers.
• Automatically applying freight and other additional charges, based on business rules, to cover all the costs of on-line orders.
• Maximize profits by capturing on-line orders that are aligned with your customers’ current contract terms and credit and margin management rules.

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