EDI Platform (Electronic Data Interchange) for B2B Networks

Comarch

What is Comarch Online Distribution?

Supporting all manufacturers by ensuring the shortest time-to-market

It frequently happens that a manufacturer does not have clear access to valuable information gathered by wholesalers and distributors that it partners with. That's mostly because of certain technological limitations - a company needs advanced IT tools to be able to process and analyze its partners' data efficiently.

That's why we deliver Comarch Online Distribution - a modern reporting and communication platform for effective management of the entire distribution network. Enabling manufacturers to make better business decisions based on actual market behavior, it automatically creates detailed stock and sales reports using data collected from your distributors' sales systems. All the information, provided in the form of electronic messages, is sent to the central database where it is mapped, harmonized, and verified by certified Comarch consultants to produce the best results.

The integration of our system with your partners' ERP solutions will give you instant access to an expansive database updated in real-time. The result? You will never be short of business-relevant information and have a much greater chance to gain a real competitive advantage.

What are the benefits?

Maintaining high-quality and transparency of all sales data
Gain instant access to up-to-date sales information - allowing you to better respond to all market changes
Enabling automatic, daily reporting of business-relevant data
Speed up your order-to-cash processes with automatic reporting of sales activities
Real-time monitoring preventing out-of-stocks and overstocks
Receive online notifications from all partners that are part of your network to optimize product distribution processes with ease

The key features of Comarch Online Distribution

DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Our primary goal is to make sure that all of your data processed by Comarch Online Distribution is consistent with information managed by distributors' sales systems. The data collected from your business partners' is automatically compared with their paper equivalents at all times to ensure its high quality.

The purpose of this verification is to check the integrity of gathered data and identify both the payers and places of delivery (on the basis of external sources such as zip code database, etc.).

DATA MAPPING AND DEDUPLICATION

Comarch Online Distribution was designed to provide you with technologically advanced functionalities, giving you full control over data management processes.

Data mapping enables pairing your data with patterns generated on the basis of sales information provided by your business partners - wholesalers, retailers, and distributors. Thanks to this functionality, you can quickly resolve any information discrepancy to ensure the best quality of data. It also allows you to build stronger, trust-based relationships with all your partners. Data deduplication, however, is about eliminating all repeating records in the database.

The end result? Clear access to a central database of products and outlets updated almost in real time.

DAILY SALES AND INVENTORY DATA REPORTING

All the data collected from distributors/retailers is processed, completed, and unified, and then reported to a manufacturer. The available reporting options are:

Database replication
Integration with a manufacturer's business data warehouse
Comarch Reporting Module

CATEGORY REPORTING

Collect, analyze, and compare your sales results in accordance with one of the selected categories:

Reporting using the categories selected by a manufacturer - carry out detailed analyses of market share within a selected range
Reporting without specifying a product name and competition's brand - determine which business areas you need to improve to achieve better results
Total Reporting - compare your sales results with your competitors' market performance

INTEGRATION WITH OTHER COMARCH SYSTEMS

Comarch Online Distribution can be easily integrated with other systems. The facilitated information flow allows each user to monitor the completion of KPIs (e.g. target sell-out, target sell-in):

Comarch Mobile Sales Force - a robust application for sales representatives. It guarantees better business results by providing instant access to customer data, the history of cooperation, dedicated offers, orders, and receivables.
Comarch Reporting Module - designed for sales and marketing managers, and their partners, it enables comprehensive communication, reporting and automation of sales processes. Providing you with instant access to current sales and stock reports, it gives you information about the realization of target sell-outs & target sell-ins.
Comarch Trade Promotion Management - an advanced application for managing your company's promotional campaigns. It allows you to measure the effectiveness of all commercial activities, analyze your marketing strategies, and use historical data to develop new methods of increasing sales.

Combine it with the power of EDI

Thanks to the integration of Comarch Online Distribution with our modern EDI platform, you can be fully convinced that the quality of data collected from your business partners, as well as optimization of all supply chain processes, will improve significantly.

Our EDI and Online Distribution platforms provide manufacturers with the opportunity to achieve better results across all sales channels, build stronger relations with retailers, distributors, and wholesalers that they partner with, and enhance their business strategies to address market needs effectively.

Enabling synergy with EDI

"Our choice of an IT solution that guarantees information on re-sale from distributors to retail and current warehouse stock has been preceded by a thorough analysis of our needs, confronted with the technical possibilities the market offers.”

"It allowed us to commercially “isolate” sales representatives from warehouses so that our representatives could provide customers with a wider range of distributors, products and a better offer.”

"The decision of using the Comarch solution was not purely based on the quality of sales and inventory data they provide. We were looking for a reliable partner; a company that not only has the knowledge, but also vast experience. Comarch has it all."

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ON-BOARDING

An enhancement to the entire business communication process carried out in accordance with a proposed schedule (including information regarding your campaigns, webinars and newsletters).

SERVICE DESK

Comarch’s multi-lingual, highly experienced Service Desk team provides practical support while maintaining the highest quality of standards.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Experienced managers are being assigned to specific projects so they could supervise every stage of the implementation process - the initiation, preparation, execution, and finalization - and make sure that the end configuration meets your company's needs.

Frequently Asked Questions about Online Distribution

1. How does the process of system integration and connecting distributors look like?
Comarch coordinates the entire process of system implementation - from preparatory tasks, through installation to the configuration of the communication interface. The process is carried out by experienced IT employees of distributors or external integrators. Before the launch, we make sure that all data exchange processes are set up in accordance with our client's requirements. We also verify the quality of data, prior to it being processed by the system.
2. What makes Comarch Online Distribution different from any other product?
At Comarch, we carry out hundreds of data reporting operations each day using 300 thousand active sales points. The experience we have gained for the past 15 years enabled us to create a modern, highly efficient IT product that meets all of our client's needs and requirements. Plus, because we are responsible for the entire process of pairing customers and products, a producer is never required to make any additional adjustments on their side. It's pretty straightforward - tell us about your goals, and we'll make sure that the system will help you achieve them.
3. Are today's distributors technologically ready to share their data?
Comarch is ready to collect business-relevant data from any reporting and sales system, regardless of the technology in use. Comarch Online Distribution can gather data from over 100 different types of internal systems used by distributors these days.

Comarch Online Distribution

What is Comarch Online Distribution?

What are the benefits?

The key features of Comarch Online Distribution

Combine it with the power of EDI

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Frequently Asked Questions about Online Distribution

1. How does the process of system integration and connecting distributors look like?

2. What makes Comarch Online Distribution different from any other product?

3. Are today's distributors technologically ready to share their data?

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