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ERP Software for Distributors and Wholesalers

By Grace Barton Updated
ERP Software for Distributors and Wholesalers

Learn the fundamentals and benefits of ERP Software.

What should I know to begin?

To be successful in today’s business climate, distributors and wholesalers must synchronize their departments, maximize worker efficiency, and ensure the accuracy and accessibility of business data. Comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software fulfills these requirements while eliminating manual processes and associated costs to streamline teams and raise company-wide productivity.

Who is Distribution One?

For over 20 years, Distribution One has helped wholesalers and distributors achieve transformational process improvements though user-friendly, comprehensive ERP-ONE business software.

Learn more about Distribution One >

How does ERP software help?

The main issues facing distributors involve data access and accuracy. Using the comprehensive features of ERP-ONE, when an order is received, users can instantly process the order and payment options, check real-time inventory levels and stock locations across multiple warehouses, purchase needed items, and plan shipments. With ERP-ONE, all related information is readily available which streamlines user productivity while reducing the errors and costs associated with unnecessary paperwork and manual activities.

To better understand the benefits of ERP, we invite you to follow this helpful knowledge path to broaden your understanding of how Distribution One can help you succeed.

The ERP Learning Path

These are but the first steps in the larger ERP software journey. For true “apples to apples” comparison, distributors must investigate and understand the features within comprehensive ERP-ONE software as well as supplemental integrations and topics like Deployment and Training.

Distribution One has helped hundreds of companies successfully navigate these waters and is here to help you on your journey.

Grace Barton

Marketing Specialist

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Grace Barton is a digital marketing and competitive intelligence professional who crafts strategic narratives by bridging marketing insights with analytical expertise. At Advantive, she creates engaging, data-driven content tailored to the distribution, manufacturing, packaging, and quality industries. Her goal is to deliver impactful messaging that drives engagement and growth based on specific gap closure needs, whether responding to sales organization requirements, pinpointing gaps in content, or meeting immediate market trends.
She thrives on transforming competitive intelligence into actionable insights for the sales organization. Grace manages Advantive’s competitive intelligence platform, Klue, to equip the sales team with the battlecards and market data they need to stay ahead of competitors. Since launch, she’s built 28+ battlecards across four lines of business, ensuring the GTM strategy stays sharp.
Grace has a passion for leveraging market insights with storytelling to guide strategic decision-making, empower sales organizations, and nurture organizational growth.

Areas of Expertise: Digital Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Strategic Narratives, Marketing Insights, Analytical Expertise

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Distribution & 3PL review panel

Articles on wholesale ERP, 3PL operations, and warehouse management are reviewed by the DDI System (inFORM ERP), Distribution One (ERP-ONE+), and VeraCore teams — the platforms running specialty wholesale and fulfillment operations across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fasteners, JanSan, and 3PL verticals.

Customers using Advantive in distribution & 3pl

30%

“Distribution One has allowed us to deliver 30% more orders without having to increase our labor force.”
President, Patiin,Inc

$500,000

““Having spent 30 years on the operations side of distribution using SAP and AS400 software within global giants such as Seiko Instruments® and Nike®, I have not encountered a better system than ERP-ONE. The efficiencies and expandability has allowed us to improve our sales by $500,000 per employee in a year.””
Chief Operating Officer, VLC Distribution
“Both Fast-Spec and Summit Industries have worked hand-in-hand with Distribution One to create customized solutions… which have enabled us to focus on streamlining our productivity and servicing our customers.”
President, Fast-Spec, Inc. and Summit Industries, Inc.

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