Network Purchase Optimization
Cardeon purchasing and distribution management system
Integrate your suppliers into one system!
Connect your suppliers to your sales points under your full control!
Implement specific rules for every warehouse and/or retail unit!
Take control of the commercial flow!
- Do your suppliers update part numbers and prices all the time?
- Can you keep buying at the best prices if the same goods are offered by several companies simultaneously?
- Do your traders really respect your purchasing and stock keeping rules?
- Too many of your goods expire in big quantities while too many others are out of stock?
- Do you spend much time finding goods in market shortage or replacing goods running out?
- Comparing supplier offers takes most of your time?
Cardeon purchasing and distribution management system was made for you!
If you are member of a purchasing group or you own retail unit(s):
Cardeon system enables you to block individual by-passes and fully exploit your purchasing conditions. You can be sure that your supply is managed according to the priorities you specified. Purchasing will be based on permanent, real time price and lead time comparison and competitive bidding without the need of your permanent supervision. Automating the internal communication guarantees maximum stock rotation and minimum restocking.
If you are a wholeseller:
Cardeon system helps you integrate and optimize your sales activity. Minimize your cost with automated processes and integrate your stock and supplier offers into a web-based ordering system. Enable your company to offer all time best price guarantee to your customers! Boost customer loyalty using the smartest sales interface in the market!
If you are a distributor or franchise owner:
Cardeon enables you to quickly set up a fully functional commercial system regardless of the number and location of the parties involved. You can implement extremely complex rules for purchasing and stock management.
Cardeon system is ready to manage the commercial activity and the stock optimization of one commercial unit to a multinational, multilevel, polycentric network.
Our system is fully functional with any extent of centralized control and any kind of network structure. The web based operation does not need any extra hardware investment.
Cardeon system can be implemented regardless of the type of ERP but can also be integrated with it via a set of internal and external interfaces for accounting, invoicing and logistics.
Features of the Cardeon System
Network structure
- Define and connect suppliers, regional and local warehouses and sales points
- Acquire and process the offer and/or stock of suppliers and warehouses automatically using pre-defined schemes
- Handle different and overlapping purchasing groups and owner groups within the same network
Sortiment and orders
- Manage the scale of available goods
- Offer alternative products sorted by price, quantity or other conditions
- Receive, process, confirm and follow orders by the authorised parties
- Differentiate order priorities (stock replenishment and urgent) Handle supplier and own campaigns and stock allocations
- Set and maintain mandatory stock by retail unit types or warehouses
- Direct web-service connections between supply chain members and network members
Optimized stock
- Arrange automatic gradual discounting and wipe-out of aging stocks
- Prioritize stock orders and order fulfilment from stocks instead of back orders, manage multiple warehouse stocks
- Set rules for automatic and manual goods exchange within the network
- Assemble or automate stock replenishment orders for individual units or the whole network. Different conditions and parameters can be set by product group.
Accounting and logistics management
- Create an optimized mixture of supplier and outsourced shipping
- Multi-level pricing and accounting system internally and externally
- Define any kind of reporting and access hierarchy
Key benefits of the system
- control the network trade to the preferred extent
- implement a professional tool without hardware investment or user training
- make the most of your commercial and logistics synergies
- enable bigger networks to fully exploit regional purchase agreements and reach unprecedented purchasing positions
- avoid all software or compatibility issues among the users
- integrate your suppliers and buyers into the same platform
- implement standardized and transparent functionality to the network
- assign most administrative tasks to your suppliers and automate the rest of the work
- minimize operation cost and avoid human errors
- translate your system easily into any language
