THIS IS ASKED BY ONE OF THE INTERVIEWER

[Former Member]

HI GURUS

IN FMCG COMP ALREADY SAP SD MODULE WAS IMPLEMENTED . WHICH SOFTWARE IS USING BY UR FMCG DISTRIBUTOR. HE ASKED LIKED HOW SHOULD I ANSWERED THESE QUESTIONS. HOW ORDERS WILL COME COME I NEED PERFECT CLARIFICATION. FROM OUTLETS TO CARRYING FORWARD AGENT.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

[Former Member]

the implementation of SAP SD module at the company doest have any link to the distributors software.

however some of the companies like HLL are installing SAP B1 at their distributors place which has seamless integration with SAP r/3.

Some of the companies also use dos based software which is integrated with their software.

Most FMCG companies follow the following Distribution process.

Forwarding agent -

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Distributor----

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Retailer.

Forwarding agent and Distributor may or may not use the software secified by the companybelong/specified by the company.

retailer generally doesent have a software for ordering.(Except large ones )

I hope this solves your query.

[Former Member]

you can consider commonlly used Tally or Matrix also.

[Former Member]

Sorry I here I am giving you few examples of NON- SAP software to which the SAP software get linked through EDI or ALE.

And your questions answer is below not the earlier one. Few software are given below.

CPWerx

CAS is a leading, global provider of Demand Side Management solutions for the Consumer Products industry. With 20+ years of industry-specific experience, CAS has unrivaled, extensive expertise in delivering solutions that manage profitable growth, including trade marketing, account management, and field sales management. CAS customers include Campbell’s, Coty, Danone, Henkel, InBev, and Kraft.

DMS

Optegra DMS (Distributors Management System) is a complete end-to-end mobile PDA solution designed to manage the customer relationship, sales, and delivery processes of a network of distributors in the FMCG and pharmaceutical industries. Optegra DMS covers route accounting, order management, merchandizing, trade deals, collection, inventory management, van reconciliation, and comprehensive reporting modules.

FLEXWARE

FLEXWARE is Avon’s mobile middleware platform with SAP NetWeaver® Exchange Infrastructure and portal integration. It offers field, sales, and service teams access to information via mobile devices in industries like manufacturing, FMCG, BFSI, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and utilities. It can be extended to the whole supply chain, handles changes to business rules and templates, and supports on/offline and wired/wireless sync capabilities.

[Former Member]

Hello friend,

Mostly we are using differnt- differnt software for fmcg industry. where we have distributed system and we creat interfaces between them. These interfaces could be in between SAP to SAP or SAP to non-SAP. for these interface we use IDOC and tool might be EDI or ALE.

These tool are used for automatic transfer of data from one system to another with any combination as SAP to SAP or else. Here the create a link between system to transfer the data through IDOC.

Here ALE is a SAP tool for interface, so this could be used only in case of SAP to SAP interface. And EDI could be used for any combination.

[Former Member]

hi

c it completely depends on the distributors software systems..

most of the order u get from the distributors is thru Xcel sheet..

sometime there are other erp products which r used by the distributors.. where in nowa days u tend to find many erp products which can directly be integrated with the sap system .. a customer can place his own purchase order online from his system and the oders are directly posted into the sap system same as if posted from the sap system.. the order number evrything is generated as in normal system and there are also instances that the third party softwares are so well intergrated that they even confirm the customer abt the order placing thru email or if the location of business and customer is same then an sms to the customers mobile can also be sent....

Reward if Useful

Thanx & regards

Naren..

[Former Member]

Lot of distributors use Focus 5.0, Most of the cases all distributor will send the stock position to the company end of the day, so daily morning company person wioll see the stocks , if it cross minimum quantity they will bill. IN colgate the own software will provide to the distributors. Lot of rural distributors dont have PC's they will order to endusers by phone or fax..

Hope u got your answer

Ramki