Wholesale distributors are often squeezed between increasing customer demands, competitive pressures, and the accelerating spread of manufacturers across the globe. Tight margins and the high cost of excess inventory make cost control and efficiency critical. The right technology can create new opportunities to increase operational efficiency across your business, fill orders faster, and reduce inventory and costs.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an integrated, adaptable business management solution designed for small and midsize companies that are looking for a system they can implement and customize rapidly, learn and use easily, and maintain with minimal disruption to their business.

Financial Management
Microsoft Dynamics NAV accounting and finance solutions help you track and analyze your business information. With end-to-end integration, you can efficiently manage your general ledger, payables, receivables, inventory, analytical accounting, fixed assets, and cash flow as well as perform bank reconciliations and collections. You can also manage your financial processes across multiple currencies, locations, or companies.

Supply Chain Management
Streamline your sales, purchasing, and pick/pack/ship cycle. With Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can tailor workflow processes to meet specific needs and keep pace with competitive markets and low margins. Improve inventory management, manage single- or multi-site warehouses, and handle order processing and demand planning.

Business Intelligence and Reporting
Bring strategic insight into your business processes with sophisticated reporting, analysis, and budgeting solutions that help you improve critical decision-making. Direct access to real-time, business-critical information and a wide range of analytical and reporting tools can help you manage budgets, create and consolidate reports, and look for trends and relationships.

Customer Relationship Management
Customer relationship management enables automation of many day-to-day tasks for sales, customer service, and marketing professionals. Manage customer records and sales histories, create and launch marketing campaigns, and track customer activity. Make service operations more profitable by organizing your service resources for optimum efficiency, forecasting and tracking parts consumption, proactively managing contracts and service agreements, and gaining tighter control over costs. Accessible from Microsoft Office Outlook® and Employee Portal, Microsoft Dynamics NAV helps your sales team work without limits.

Workspace Collaboration
Help people across your business collaborate effectively by expanding access to business applications, information, and processes. In addition, you can use Microsoft Windows® SharePoint® Services to help create workgroups and teams to generate discussion and exchange information related to specific interests and projects.

Work with a partner who understands Distribution
Tap into the global network of Microsoft Certified Partners with the industry and technical expertise to help you tailor a Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution to fit your specific type of business. Your local Microsoft Certified Partner can provide expert support for implementing your Microsoft Dynamics NAV solution and help your company benefit from a rich ecosystem of finely tailored, industry-specific offerings and add-on solutions. They can help you customize and extend the solution to meet specialized needs across a wide range of industries and make it easy for you to conduct business over the Internet or take advantage of new opportunities.

To learn how Microsoft Dynamics NAV can help you to achieve your goals in the Distribution industry, call (888) 477-7989.