abas Trade for retail companies - ERP trade solution optimizes business processes

Business success in trading above all relies on timing, the right price and excellent quality. Everything has to be just right in retailing - the product, quality, price, time and place. Precisely interlocked logistics without losses due to friction is a significant requirement to ensure sales. Retail promotion, blanket orders, quick delivery or additional services can maintain the trust gained from the customer and can help to maintain a long term connection.


The solution to these tasks is on one hand a stronger effort at making the business process suit customer requirements, and on the other hand to reveal and use all productivity reserves, e.g. by reducing the stockholding time, faster goods transfer, shorter delivery times or eCommerce technology. The goal must be: less stock, less costs, increased profits and above all - satisfied customers.

Trade solution requirements
ERP solutions for wholesale have to fulfill several requirements at once. They have to be efficient enough to handle fluctuating order situations, complicated pricing methods and complex challenges. Moreover, they have to be future-oriented and flexibly adjustable to the respective requirements, they must have many functions and always be on an up-to-date technical status.

abas Trade is a business software which has been fulfilling these requirements for years. abas Trade is a comprehensive materials management solution which supports all business areas in a company, such as purchasing, sales, warehouse/logistics, financial accounting, cost accounting and fixed asset accounting.

The architecture of abas Trade along with extremely flexible customization options and guaranteed upgrade possibilities ensure an optimal representation of business processes in the most different organizational forms and trade sectors. Furthermore, there is also an extremely extensive eCommerce integration available.


Optimization potential
For example, the warehouse management must be fast and efficient if a company wants to avoid scrap, wants to check stock, track stock movements and to fulfill the most differing tasks. Pricing and product information must be interlocked interactively with eCommerce technology because trading is the basis for dynamic eCommerce solutions, such as eShops. Data for a Webshop must only be recorded and maintained in the goods management once. Shop orders are immediately ready for processing in the goods management. Import and export of data and also duplicate administration is prevented.

This is, of course, also valid for other areas, such as for example, purchasing and sales. For example, in this way the respective fast entry screens for company requirements can be be produced quickly and targeted to the companies' needs. Furthermore, the respective blanket orders and framework orders can be quickly and comfortably processed using abas Trade. This is, of course, also valid for other areas, such as pricing, set management, collective invoices, bonus and commission management, repairs management and connection to the external sales force.

Also optimizing critical business processes improves the communication and the information exchange and can, therefore, increase productivity. Furthermore, the most modern technology facilitates working between your customers, vendors and business partners, also the Internet - at every location in the world, any time and, if necessary, also working in several languages in parallel.

Benefits of using abas Trade
· Higher customer satisfaction through quick and reliable information, improved advice, shorter delivery times, improved quality management
· Higher liquidity through minimization of warehouse stock, lead times and quick and secure backflow of resources
· Increase in sales due to eCommerce integration
· Less administration effort in procurements, scheduling, delivery and financial management

Satisfied users
Tanja Link, General Manager Operations of Cybertronics-EU GmbH is convinced by the trade solution abas Trade: "The intensive support through the project representatives of the ABAS Projektierung Rhein-Main provides our company quickly with the yearly improvements and expansions of abas Trade. I can not imagine how I could process my constantly growing workload without the infosystems in the abas Business Software. With abas Trade as a 'Back Office' base I know that the international expansions of our group of companies are also secure." The company located in Leimen distributes network engineering components.
Also the Tamron Europe GmbH uses the trade solution from ABAS. The decision to use abas Trade was made on the grounds of their high flexibility and customizability. No other package could be so flexibly and quickly adjusted to the individual requirements of the company. The company from Cologne distributes camera objectives. Office and PR Manager, Michael Dickel: "We will be introducing the abas Business Software trade solution to continue to optimize our goods flow and maximize cost-effectiveness. With growing customer demands and continuously shorter production cycles, an intelligent ERP system like abas Business Software creates significant plus points so that we can be even more competitive."
Technical specialist wholesaler for industrial hygiene and safety, and safety in the workplace, is the profession of the Hamburger Sattelmacher KG. CEO, Rainer Sattelmacher: "The technical wholesaler Willbrandt KG is another client who is managed using abas Trade. Through the flexible interface we can mostly realize special customer requirements quickly and without great effort. abas Trade distinguishes itself through stability in running operation. The constant availability is an important factor, especially in wholesale, as a large number of processes must be handled daily."

Company profile of the ABAS Software AG
The core competence of ABAS Software AG is the development of flexible ERP and eBusiness software for medium-sized companies with up to 1,000 employees. More than 1,700 customers throughout the world have opted for both ABAS as IT specialists, and for the integrated abas Business Software. The company ABAS that was once characterized by students has now become a group of companies ABAS Software AG in Karlsruhe employs about 85 people, together with over 50 abas partners worldwide that is a total of approx. 450 employees. The abas Software Partners provide on-site support and a range of services including implementation, hardware and network support, customization and a helpdesk and ensure short reaction times and high service quality. International partners in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Latin America and the USA represent the ABAS Software AG throughout the world. The partner network is continuously expanded.

abas Business Software – product profile
The brand name abas Business Software includes the products abas ERP for production, abas Trade for trade and service companies and the eBusiness solution abas eB. abas Business Software (ERP, PPC, MRP, eBusiness), a solution for medium-sized companies, is flexible, adaptable and future-proof. The clear structure and well thought-out implementation strategy of the system enables a short implementation period, as well as a trouble-free integration into the company structure. Specific adaptations can be integrated with very little effort. With every upgrade new functions and technologies are constantly added to the standard software. As a result, abas users are always using the most up-to-date product. abas Business Software can be run using Linux, Unix and Windows. ABAS has supported the open source operating system Linux since 1995. Approximately 80% of over 1,700 abas installations are based on Linux.
abas Business Software - range of services: Sales/sales order processing/shipping, purchasing/purchase order processing, warehouse management, scheduling, logistics, materials management/MRP, production/PPC, financial accounting, fixed asset accounting, cost accounting, controlling, eBusiness, etc.

ABAS Software AG
Team Marketing & PR
Südendstr. 42
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel. +49 721-9672301
Fax +49 721-679651
info@abas.de
www.abas.de

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