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Get seamless visibility across your distributor network with TradeEdge
One of the biggest challenges for manufacturers today is the lack of granular visibility into distributor sales, inventory, and consumer offtake.
Knowing the answers to these questions is important for manufacturers to optimize inventory allocation, trade spend, and maximize reach. Incomplete and/or delayed information hampers business decisions leading to frequent out of stocks, failed promotions, loss of sales, and customer dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, such information is out of reach for most manufacturers, especially in emerging markets.
Barriers to data visibility
Large number of distributors
Smaller distributors with relatively low process maturity form a major chunk of distribution networks.
Lack of technology investments
Distributors work on different systems and often paper-based processes. This compromises data consistency and quality, creating information silos.
Time and effort-intensive
Companies that have tried to do this on their own have found it to require significant time and effort chasing partners for data. It may even lead to rework due to frequent changes in distributors’ systems.
Get a consolidated view across distributors, retailers, and e-commerce with TradeEdge
TradeEdge is an intelligent supply chain management platform that enables manufacturers to gain maximum channel visibility and accelerate supply chain digitization. The TradeEdge is a multi-tenanted, cloud-based, highly configurable platform. It is designed to maximize the efficiency and productivity of manufacturers. With TradeEdge, you can:
Get visibility
to distributor secondary sales and inventory delivered as a fully managed service
Make promotions more effective
with real-time insights into campaign performance and effectiveness
Improve retail outlet coverage and expand market reach
with the ordering App and smart route planning that maximizes sales rep productivity
Measure consumer offtake
by getting near real-time visibility to POS at the retail store-item level
Reduce out-of-stocks
by targeted short-term replenishment
Gain a unified view of business
harmonized to your internal product hierarchies
Get the pulse of your business with TradeEdge
Some powerful benefits delivered to our clients
20%
enhanced forecast accuracy using real-time sales inputs
2%
sales growth by adjusting delivery plans
10%
improvement in case-fill rates
20%
reduction in stock-out scenarios
50%
improvement in distributor data accuracy
60%
reduction in procure to review cycle
70%
increased productivity and efficiency
90%
reduction in manual report generation
Powering an agro-technology company’s ambitious new distribution strategy
Our client, a global biotechnology company, specializing in agrochemicals and seeds, was under pressure to onboard a large number of distributors as it pivoted its model for scale. This presented challenges in distributor management, hindering secondary sales and inventory visibility. Moreover, the lack of an integrated and centralized system resulted in errors and high costs.
Download the case study to learn how TradeEdge DMS helped digitize over 90% of orders, gaining visibility into secondary sales data.
Enabling end-to-end global supply chain visibility and collaboration for a global European beverages company
Food & Beverage companies are driven by frequent new product introductions, high demand uncertainty, and new regulations that impact supply chain efficiencies. They require access to timely and accurate high-quality data to gain end-to-end real-time supply chain visibility and ensure customer needs are met.
Our client, a global beverage company, faced data challenges that resulted in sub-optimal production planning and the inability to optimally manage stock. Download the case study to learn how the client leveraged TradeEdge to achieve a ~20% reduction in ‘stock out’ and a 10% increase in case-fill rates.
Strengthening demand planning for a global consumer goods conglomerate
Supply chain optimization is essential to the survival of the consumer goods (CG) industry as it’s defined by hyper-competitive markets, high customer expectations, and a wide range of products. Moreover, overcoming data challenges is key. Hence, seamless acquisition and harmonization of near real-time data can help CGs ensure the product is available at the right place and at the right time.
For instance, data acquisition was a challenge for our client, a multi-billion-dollar global consumer goods company. With the implementation of TradeEdge, a supply a chain management platform by EdgeVerve, they were able to improve data quality and time to insights, thus achieving 5X growth in 5 years.
Enabling supply chain visibility in emerging markets for the world’s largest snack company
Our client – a leader in the food industry with a global footprint, worked with a complex network of distributors. In emerging markets, their distributors and retailers did not have the technology to collect or transfer data from the ground. Without data, they had inadequate visibility into their secondary sales and inventory situation across the entire supply chain.
They were looking for a globally scalable data exchange platform for fast-growing markets, that could help in data gathering from distributors and third-party data consolidators. Download the case study to learn how TradeEdge enables seamless data acquisition, cleansing and harmonization to enable operational visibility of sales data across distribution partners.
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