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01 The Wholesale Industry

Industry consolidation and globalization has widespread impact on the wholesale and distribution sector. The wholesale industry is also facing competition from both online retailers and manufacturers selling their own products over the Internet. The retail and wholesale sectors are merging sales channels to control a larger part of the value chain, increasing pressure on the supply chain as a whole. Managing product information effectively throughout the supply chain helps your company increase revenues and decrease costs by speeding up new product introductions, improving invoice and order accuracy, improving your overall business process efficiencies and making it easier for trading partners to do business with you.

02 The information supply chain

Most wholesalers struggle to manage large and ever growing assortments, made more complex by expansion into new markets creating a need to manage product information in many languages. E-commerce solutions need to be constantly updated and large customers want an updated catalogue in their purchasing systems. Add to this the printed catalogues, sortilogs and advertisements which need to be produced, and we find that the information supply chain is in most cases nowhere near as fast and efficient as the physical supply chain. As a result the process becomes too slow and costly, due to the manual updating of multiple documents and systems in several different channels, causing a lack of information quality and inconsistency. This seriously damages business competitiveness as it takes too long to deliver product information out to the channel in time.

03 Let inRiver help you meet these challenges

To meet these challenges and take advantage of all the business opportunities that a dynamic marketplace brings, you need to be able to act fast. This is where inRiver PIM Suite comes in. The sole purpose of our solution is to process product information through the supply chain at optimum speed, cost, and quality and deliver it to all your market channels. Whether you need product information for advertising in a newspaper, a banner on the web, in a web-shop or a web site, in an interactive kiosk in your stores or in your Point-of-Sale solution - inRiver PIM Suite will deliver it. Not only will it deliver the correct and updated information at the right time to the right channel, it will also do it in the right format. By applying business rules the distribution process can be highly automated, thus saving both time and money as well as keeping consistency across market channels.