iDistribute V8.2 Retail ERP

Gillani iDistribute V8.2 - Retail ERP is an Integrated Retail solution that addresses the growing back-office requirements of retailers across the entire spectrum of retail value chain - from planning, forecasting and replenishment, purchasing to financials, and distribution of merchandise.

The Gillani iDistribute V8.2 solution is a flexible and robust enterprise-wide suite of applications that manages multiple retailers/outlets/warehouses. The Distribution Management capabilities address the mission critical needs of the enterprise. The iDistribute System includes Order Management, Inventory Management, Advanced Planning and Replenishment and Purchasing. All modules are fully integrated with the Gillani Financials including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets modules, and Financial Report Writer.

The iDistribute solution offers a highly advanced inventory planning and replenishment system that enables retailers to have the right products in the right place at the right time. The system tracks inventory, forecasts demand usage patterns and sets inventory levels based on statistical techniques, automatically creating recommendations for purchase orders, resulting in high inventory turns, increased customer satisfaction and improved profitability.

iDistribute is easily customized to suit the changing requirements of retail business dynamics. The iDistribute solution offers a unique competitive advantage in that a highly proven solution which has been successfully implemented in large enterprises as well as in the small and medium size companies at a very attractive price-performance ratio.

Functional description

iDistribute provides advanced order management capabilities, integrated with a warehouse and branch inventory management and replenishment systems, and financial management systems.
iDistribute modules are built from a retail and wholesale distribution organization's perspective, where all the modules are modifiable to your successful best practices and functions, including:

• Order capture, validation and execution.
• Product sourcing and inventory management.
• Advanced planning, inventory, replenishment and purchasing.
• Integrated financials, analysis multi-currency, multi-lingual, and security.
• Support for third-party electronic commerce, reporting, and tax compliance.

Competitive advantage

Gillani has successfully completed application testing of iDistribute V8.2 under IBM®'s Retail Store Innovations program. This validation certifies that iDistribute V8.2 has been successfully tested against IBM compatibility checklists of Ready for Store Integration Framework (SIF). The value Gillani offers to retail industry customers include:

• Supporting real-time integration between back office and front office systems, linking applications at the store with iDistribute solution at the corporate office.
• Increasing collaboration and teaming between in-store and corporate staffs.
• Helping Retailers manage stores more effectively.
• Transforming customer experience resulting in added loyalty and customer satisfaction.
• Providing an affordable, reliable and scalable on demand application for Retailers.
• Using Linux based open system platforms in Retail ERP environment.

Business problem

Gillani iDistribute helps you to:

• Improve service to your customers by shortening your cycle time.
• Lower inventory carrying costs and fill orders faster by efficiently managing inventory on a corporate-wide basis.
• Automate your best customer and supplier relationships and reduce supply chain costs with EDI/XML and Internet electronic commerce.
• Increase order fill rates, increase sales, reduce back orders and retain customers.

Business opportunity

iDistribute helps retailers with many business opportunities by streamlining diverse tasks, simplifying business operations, and automating business processes from order capture to inventory replenishment cost-effectively.

With an integrated distribution process, retailers can better manage information and materials while controlling costs and performance. For companies that own or have a stake in other companies, iDistribute allows them to easily and seamlessly integrate and streamline its business operations across with a single view of the company, and maintain viability and transparency.

iDistribute offers a quick path for companies using legacy or home-grown systems with limited functionality to easily migrate their data, and seamlessly integrating it into the new system. Companies can reduce errors in their inventory with bar codes and scanners to maintain real-time inventory data, and use critical forecasting to help plan for future inventory needs.

iDistribute enables retailers to fulfill back-office requirements of planning, forecasting and replenishment, purchasing, financials, and distribution of merchandise. You can reduce manual processes and streamline warehouse operations for faster, more accurate fulfillment that avoids costly noncompliance penalties. Plus, the system can be customized to integrate labeling and shipping into pick/pack and invoicing processes, even with multiple warehouses. iDistribute allows you to gain visibility into your most profitable products, customers, and opportunities.

Return on investment

• Client can modify software for their unique business needs
• Offers a low total cost of ownership with a single solution that can integrate multiple business units and profit centers
• Rapid installation and ease of deployment with full integration with existing systems
• Easy access to database for queries saves time
• Highly secure, protects confidential data
• Improved performance, enabling faster business reporting
• Scalable solution able to handle rapid company growth
• Realtime access to information allows to respond more rapidly and effectively to customer demands
• Centralized view of the business with multiple locations

 
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