Essay - Order Management Systems Increasing Distributed Order Management and Enterprise Resource...

Order Management Systems

***** Distributed Order ***** and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Performance in the Sports Nutrition Industry:

Recommendations for Europa Sports Products

Executive Summary

Introduction

***** of Research Findings

Recommendations to Europa Sports ***** 5

Analysis of Distributed ***** Management & ERP Systems Use 8

Conclusions and Recommendations

References

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Executive Summary

The intent of this research paper and recommendations is to first define how distributed order management systems are progressing from being ***** centric and more customer-focused ***** demand-driven, and second, how *****se systems are making it possible for sports nutrition distributors to attain their selling, service and long-term growth objectives. For sports ***** distributors in general and ***** Sports Products specifically, the need for synchronizing ***** 177 suppliers that provide just over 5,400 products, inventoried in 215,000 squ***** feet of warehouse space spread across four geographic locations underscores ***** urgent need the company has ***** a reliable distributed order ***** system. Inventory turns across each ***** ***** four distribution centers located ***** Fresno California, Strongsville Ohio, Charlotte North Carolina, and Me*****ite Texas are critical to Europa Sports Products' financial performance and future growth. Integrating with suppliers' Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, supply chain, order management, and forecasting systems is also ***** to the success of Europa Sports Products. The business model of distribution is predicated on price, availability, accuracy of fulfillment ***** support programs for dealers and resellers. In additi*****, the ability to continually improve existing customer-facing sales and ***** processes, keeping ***** Sports ***** agile in terms ***** changing their approach to serving customers, is critical. Underscoring all these strategic requirements that necessitate the use of ***** ***** management ***** is the need to also measure performance and progress. The growing importance of analytics as they relate to managing ***** chains, order *****, fulfillment and integration ***** ***** discussed.

Introduction

***** many respects the business model of any distributor is to act as a bank, providing financial terms including credit lines and extending payment terms to assist its customers who are ***** and resellers, to be pr*****itable. The sourcing and w*****housing processes of ***** are highly dependent on ***** processes being integrated between suppliers, buyers, and the *****s' w*****housing and distribution center locations. For ***** nutrition distribu*****rs specifically, who specialize in products which have relatively high inventory turns, ***** inherent challenges in their ***** models is particularly difficult. It is essential for distributors of sports nutrition products to have their *****, warehousing and fulfillment systems synchronized internally, ***** also to have a high level of supply chain sourcing and forecasting process visibility with suppliers outside their companies as well. The ***** of Demantra's supply chain visibility applications, acquired by Oracle in 2006, is used ***** sports nutrition ***** as well (Business Editors/High-Tech Writers).

Due to the ***** for extensive process and *****-level integration, the need for synchronization throughout an organization's many sourcing, pricing, warehousing, ***** fulfillment systems, and the need ***** better manage to a set of key performance indicators, d*****tributed order ********** ***** have