Deloitte office
Efforts by wholesale distributors to address shrinking margins and customer demands for higher service levels have been augmented as Deloitte launched Deloitte Consulting Distribution Solution (DCoDS), a preconfigured, industry-specific application, specifically designed to help distributors.
Leader of Deloitte’s SAP DCoDS solution, Christopher Lafaire, who made this known in a chat with news men in Lagos, said the application was scalable, customisable and can assist organisations in their efforts to manage profitability– from customers to channels to products.
“Deloitte’s offering is designed to enhance the value that clients get from technologies and to help wholesale distributors remain competitive in an increasingly challenging business environment.
“Our deep industry experience was integral in developing DCoDS, enhances the impact of the solution set by reducing a company’s implementation time and can accelerate the benefits to their business. This can be crucial for this dynamic industry, where time to market matters, ”he said.
DCoDS, according to him, assists the core functions of a business including financial management, supply chain, operations, sales, marketing and distribution through pre-configured SAP solutions for sales and distribution, FICO, general ledger, financial supply chain management and advanced planning specification.
In addition, it can improve the capabilities of wholesale distributors for forecasting, cash flow management, product traceability, quality inspection, returns and transportation planning.
It also differentiates itself further through the enablement of mobile applications for virtual business processing.