Modernize your business

Take your business to the next level with Infor CloudSuite™Distribution. This ready-to-run solution, built specifically tomeet the needs of distributors like you, gives you deep,proven capabilities in key areas such as inventorymanagement, order processing, pricing and rebates,supply chain and procurement, value-add, financials, and more.

Even better, the solution is delivered in the cloud—whichmeans you get cost savings, built-in support, efficientexpansion capabilities, and security that followsindustry-leading best practice protocols.

Get your business moving

As a wholesale distributor, the

challenges you face today are forcing

you to rethink the way you do business.

Old processes and approaches just

don’t cut it anymore. Neither do legacy

ERP systems. You need a solution that

drives the rest of your business to be

even more agile than the people and

processes it supports.

Infor CloudSuite Distribution

Take advantage of innovative technologydesigned to address modern challenges.

Distribution

■ Distributor revenue has grown nearly55% over the last 10 years in the US, creatinga $5.4-trillion industry. With positiveeconomic trends, such as rising employmentand strong retail sales, distributors like youshould continue to pursue expansion opportunities.

■ More than 56% of distributors plan to growtheir analytics capabilities by investing morein technology, time, and people. Greateraccess to key, relevant data can vastlyimprove decision making.

■ As globalization continues to escalate, morethan 50% of distributors are looking to—

or already are—expanding their on-shorecapabilities. On-shoring allows you torespond more quickly to demand, make moreaccurate forecasts, maintain more accuratestock levels, and decrease transit times—all ofwhich can help increase customer satisfaction.

Wholesale distributors like you must addressthese challenges with enterprise solutions thatallow you to embrace omni-channel commerce,operate leaner, and meet increasingly demandingcustomer requirements. These modern solutionsalso allow you to empower the next generation ofemployees, support an evolving business modelthat’s dependent on additional levels of service,and manage growth without adding resources.

Maximize profitability in an increasingly complex marketThe global distribution industry’s growth and pace of change is in overdrive.

Consider the numbers:

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With Infor CloudSuite Distribution, you get deepindustry-specific functionality, including:

■ Order entry—Retain and reach new marketsthrough a streamlined ordering process thatincludes a fast order-entry process with itemrecommendations, non-stock and specialorder options, and optimized counter sales.

■ Inventory control—Improve inventorymanagement performance through bettervisibility into your largest asset by monitoringinventory turns, demand, optimized levels, andresulting profitability.

■ Value-added services—Meet increasingcustomer demands for more comprehensiveservices from distributors, such as kitting, light manufacturing, assembly, private labeling, and more.

■ Purchasing—Make intelligent purchasingdecisions with access to a centralizedinterface that has all the information you needright at your fingertips, including color-codednotifications for problems and exceptions.

You’ll also be able to manage the purchase ofboth stock and non-stock products withadvanced order control, inventorymanagement, and other flexible features.

■ Complex pricing requirements—Get ahandle on complex pricing requirements,including matrix pricing, pricing discounts,quantity breaks, packaging breaks, contractpricing, and special pricing agreements (SPAs).

■ Financial management—Increase yourfinancial insight and meet the challenges ofoperating multiple locations and companies,with multiple currencies. Infor CloudSuiteDistribution can support your company’sgrowth whether it’s organic, geographic, orcreated through mergers and acquisitions.

■ Rebate claim management—You no longerhave to manage complex rebate processesmanually or with clunky tools. With a rebatemanagement tool that encompasses theentire rebate claim process, you can quicklyrecover the rebates you are entitled to andachieve the best possible product margins.

Meet your unique needsInfor CloudSuite Distribution provides you with an unparalleled depth and breadth of distribution capabilities in one solution.

Take your solution to the next level

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With deployment in Infor CloudSuite, you can:

■ Support expansion—The solution providesreal-time data that is accessible anytime,anywhere. You can allow controlled access toemerging partners, suppliers, joint ventures,and other entities—all of which helps make iteasier to launch and expand to new locations.

■ Reduce total cost of ownership—Becausedata is no longer stored onsite, you can saygoodbye to expensive servers and hardware, and redirect personnel to morestrategic activities.

■ Realize a speedier time to value—Withpreconfigured yet flexible, industry-leadingbusiness processes, templates, training

materials, tools, and simulations, you candeploy or upgrade, with minimal upfrontinvestnment, in weeks or months—not years.

■ Ensure security and reliability—With datamanaged by AWS, you benefit frombest-practice protocols in application, network,physical, and operations security, as well ascomprehensive monitoring on a highly secureinfrastructure. Infor CloudSuite has a 99.9%average historical uptime, and has seen about1.9 million attempted—and failed—attacksquarterly. With Infor CloudSuite DistributionEnterprise, you get greater reliability, uptime,and security than most companies canachieve on their own.

Gain reliability and securityInfor CloudSuite Distribution is deployed in the Infor CloudSuite, an agile and highly flexible hosting platform thatis currently serving more than 2,800 customers and over 45 million subscribers globally. You get a functionallyrich, comprehensive, cloud-based suite that is made available through Infor’s partnership with Amazon® WebServices (AWS) to give you access anywhere, anytime on your preferred device. With the Infor CloudSuite, youget reliability and security you can count on and the ability to focus on your business, not your technology.

Get the benefits of the cloud

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Get deep functionality, greaterflexibility, and lower TCO.

■ Streamline key processes across your business.

■ Optimize every facet of your operation—frominventory and warehouse management,financials, multichannel sales orders,purchasing, and more.

■ Keep all of your distribution systems and datacurrent, secure, and reliable.

■ Lower costs, increase profits, and reduce risks.

■ Gain 24x7x365 access to your core businesssystem and data in an environment thatprovides greater flexibility, hassle-freeownership, reliability, and security than youcould provide on your own.

Address today and tomorrow’s challengesTo succeed in today’s competitive environment, you need modern tools that help you address today andtomorrow’s distribution industry challenges. Infor CloudSuite Distribution offers the functionality you need in onecomplete solution, with the broadest capabilities from a single vendor—all deployed in the cloud.

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