Cutwater Announces Standardized Business Performance Solution for Wholesale Distribution
Cutwater BI provides end-user control and functionality for accurate reporting
WILMINGTON, Del.--In response to the growing need of a precise business performance tool for wholesale distribution, Cutwater today announced that it has standardized its Cutwater BI software solution to provide reporting across sales, shipments, inventories and purchasing for this industry. Cutwater offers cost-effective, straightforward software that turns data residing in transaction systems into usable information.
“Many companies fail to utilize decision support tools due to their complex nature or the effort required to install,” stated Jim Heatherington, managing director of Cutwater. “Quite often, wholesale distributors don’t have the staff and resources for large, complex software efforts. By standardizing for the industry, Cutwater has made what was once difficult, very straightforward without disrupting the business managers who often have many varied responsibilities within the organization.”
Customers of wholesale distributors are demanding a more service-oriented approach to supporting their businesses, which can only be done if current data is available to management. Whether a company is selling industrial, electrical, plumbing or medical supplies, service is the differentiator in wholesale distribution. Even more important than the products they are providing, is the need for a wholesale distributor to quickly report on how customers are being served.
Cutwater BI for wholesale distributors provides summary and detailed data in an interface built specifically for the industry. With the standardized Cutwater BI solution, report areas across sales, invoicing, orders, stocks and purchasing have all been configured with defined fields for ad hoc reporting and analysis. While the solution does allow for additional configuration, the out-of-the-box organization of data and reports provides users with 90 percent of the functionality they need immediately. Cutwater BI is a Microsoft solution, and is pre-configured for some ERP/transaction tools commonly used by wholesale distributors.
R.G. Brewton, a mid-market distributor of consumable industrial supplies and provider of automated inventory management systems, has implemented Cutwater BI to support management needs for reporting on business performance.
“Performance reporting is important to us, but we needed to be practical about implementing software,” said Rick Abbott, operations manager for R.G. Brewton. “We selected Cutwater based on its competitive pricing and the fact that implementation wouldn’t distract our business.”
About Cutwater
Cutwater is a provider of decision support software for mid-market distributors and manufacturers. Cutwater BI is a software solution for enterprise reporting and analysis that is cost effective and requires little ongoing support. Cutwater clients drive value from existing investments in core transaction systems without placing unnecessary burdens on IT resources. More on Cutwater, including product and pricing information, can be found at www.cutwaterbi.com.
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