At a glance
Unit4 Business World is a flexible and fully integrated end-to-end solution for dynamic wholesalers that is tuned to the changes in your organization and the dynamic supply chain.
The solution offers extensive opportunities for:
- Full optimization and automation of your trading processes.
- Extensive functionality for purchasing, sales and stock.
- Full control over loading of goods.
- Distribution to and integration with several carriers.
- Warehouse management with technology for picking, packing and shipping.
- Project management and visibility of resources/time used.
- E-commerce with strong online marketing and strategic channel capabilities.
- Extensive reporting and analysis capabilities.
A better solution
Unit4 Business World is designed to respond effectively to the changing market, the dynamic chain and to your specific needs to get you up and running and supporting your trading processes – without delay and without business disruption. Like all Unit4 solutions, it delivers the ongoing agility to help you adapt to changing circumstances and deliver the information and insights essential to continued business success.
The solution:
- allows you to easily make adjustments to meet the changing needs of your organization,
- means you can differentiate yourself from other partners in the chain by adding value at all stages,
- enables you organization to realize its goals while minimizing risks,
- can be implemented while your business remains open,
- is implemented by consultants who understand your business,
- is timely and cost effective to adjust, long after the initial implementation.
As a result, you are better able to seize opportunities and avoid threats; optimizing business processes according to the needs of staff/users instead of forcing your business to conform to how the system works.
KEY ADVANTAGES
Procure-to-pay – Unit4 Business World allows you to control the complete purchase process and call upon purchase management as an instrument to increase your success and profitability.
Order-to-cash – Manage the movement of goods between unlimited administrations or branches and have real-time insight of your stock. Quickly gain real-time insight into your sales processes and the various statuses of orders, while meeting the demands of each situation.
E-commerce – The fully integrated e-commerce platform supports the ecommerce needs and channel strategies of wholesalers. Seize opportunities whilst supporting specific channel strategies such as launching a website with an e-commerce portal, connecting with the virtual marketplace or partnering up with an affiliate.
Supply chain execution – The solution enables you to optimize the movement of goods, ensuring the right goods are in the right place at the right time, in the right quantity at minimal costs.
Financials – Unit4 Business World supports your overall strategic objectives, financial health and manages your daily accounting, including multi-company, multi-currency, and multi-lingual capabilities.
Key capabilities
Unlike traditional ERP, Unit4 Business World keeps in step with the changing needs and structure of your organization – long after it is first put in place. This agility, which goes beyond delivering a low total cost of ownership by ensuring customers benefit from something even more significant: a low total cost of change.
The solution enables you to:
- Have correct and accurate information about your business management.
- Respond immediately to situations by being automatically informed of business critical events and conditions.
- Be responsive to sudden changes and unforeseen operational problems.
- Keep on top of your workload, stay informed and keep ‘in the know’.
- Warn users when things don’t go as planned, and give them the opportunity to react as necessary.
- Move closer to your markets while cooperating within the supply chain.
- Make faster and more informed decisions.
- Utilize specific functions for international business.
- Proactively and accurately inform your customers about current offers.
- Use inter-company capabilities to provide clear insight into stock of parent organization / sister organization.
Information at the heart of your organization
Information is vital to your organization so instead of focusing only on collecting data, Unit4 Business World is built with an information warehouse at its core. Not only does the coding structure allow for unlimited dimensions of analysis, that structure can be changed at any time as required – for example, to support a new organization chart, new product ranges etc. As these changes can be done by end users, there is no need for IT support or external consultants.
Unlike most other ERP solutions, all enquiry, analysis and reporting tools are integral parts of the solution. With Unit4 Business World, you have great reporting and analysis tools, overlaying a remarkably flexible and rich structure, which can change as required.