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Trading & Distribution
INDUSTRY 27 Trading & Distribution

Buy smarter. Move faster. Protect every margin.

Connect procurement, inventory, pricing, sales and distribution — maintaining the right stock across every location and market.

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01The industry challenge

Your operations are connected. Are your systems?

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Excess stock and stock-outs coexist across locations

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Frequent price changes and schemes erode margins

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Sales, warehouse and delivery teams work from different priorities

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Collections and credit exposure slow otherwise profitable growth

02Connected operational journey

One flow, from first material to final dispatch.

Every stage below runs as one connected chain — each step visible, costed and quality-controlled in the same system.

1 Demand planning
2 Procurement
3 Receipt & warehousing
4 Order fulfilment
5 Distribution
6 Collection & margin analysis
Lot, serial, warehouse, price and order visibility from receipt through fulfilment, return and collection.
03One connected industry solution

Three layers. One system.

SAP Business One provides the transactional core. TEKROI adds the industry controls and integrations. TEKAI turns live operational data into questions, alerts and actions.

SAP Business One
The transactional core

Integrated finance, purchasing, inventory, sales, production, projects and reporting.

TEKROI
Industry solutions

Industry processes, controls, integrations, localisations and specialised workflows.

TEKAI
Intelligence on top

AI questions, insights, alerts and agentic automation using live business context.

04Industry capabilities

Built for trading & distribution — not adapted to it.

Demand-driven procurement and replenishment

Multi-location stock availability

Price, scheme and margin governance

Order fulfilment and receivables control

Trading & distribution-specific costing and profitability

Planning, approvals and exception-based management

05Operational control by responsibility

Every team sees what it owns.

Management

Output, exceptions, working capital, risk and profitability.

Operations

Plans, materials, progress, quality status and delivery commitments.

Commercial

Pipeline, orders, pricing, fulfilment, customer commitments and collections.

Finance

Actual costs, billing, cash flow, receivables and margin performance.

TEKAI

Ask your operations anything.

TEKAI answers from live business context — and turns exceptions into alerts and actions before they become losses.

Live answers · your data, your context
Which items require replenishment by location?
Show slow-moving and ageing inventory with value.
Which orders are blocked by stock, credit or approval?
Compare realised margin by product, customer and channel.
Send overdue collection priorities to the sales team.
06Management KPIs

The numbers leadership runs on.

01 Stock availability
02 Inventory ageing
03 Order fill rate
04 Gross margin by product/customer
05 Receivable days
06 Return rate
07Relevant integrations

Connected to the systems around it.

E-commerce and marketplaces POS and payment systems Barcode scanners WhatsApp and email Banks, tax and e-invoicing

Plus the SAP Business One ecosystem — barcode, banking, tax, e-invoicing and messaging rails already proven across TEKROI deployments.

Business Transformation

Ready to connect your entire trading & distribution operation?

See how SAP Business One, TEKROI industry solutions and TEKAI can connect the complete trading & distribution value chain — with operational visibility and financial control in one system.

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