If you are a value added reseller (VAR) and connected to SP Richards distributor for your day-to-day business transactions, it is time to choose an appropriate business management platform that integrates with your distributor’s online catalog. This is the key to simplify your procurement process, speed up the quoting process, which will enable to fulfill orders quickly.
You have decided to use a software platform to ease your business processes. However, the very purpose of incorporating the platform gets defeated if it cannot be integrated with your distributor. Integration will ensure that SP Richards catalog is easily accessible via the platform.
Product related information such as product name, Part#, SKU, Mfr., Availability and Price is readily available. You can also search the product from the catalog using various parameters. Also, when you want to include product data into your quote, it is just a couple of mouse clicks away.
With SP Richards integration, procuring products from the distributor to create a quote or fulfill any order is no longer a tedious process. Since product related data in the distributor catalog changes frequently, it is downloaded daily into the platform. This allows your sales team to access updated information at the time of creating quotes.
However, there are business management software tools that have real time connections with SP Richards distributor. Thus, using these software tools gives you real time price (P) and availability (A) information from distributors that you are connected to. You have up-to-the-minute updates of every product from the catalog.
Real time P&A feature allows you to create quotes with greater accuracy, driving high revenues. The up-to-the minute access to product data will enable you to create quotes that give higher profits. This is one of the biggest advantages of having real time integration with distributors like SP Richards.