Speed and Simplify your Sales-Out Reporting and Upload Process
Distributors and value-added resellers (VARs) have the obligation of reporting accurate and timely sales and inventory data to multiple manufacturers. With each manufacturer having its own reporting requirements, standardizing the data upload process is nearly impossible.
For most channel partners, this means a tedious manual process on a monthly, weekly, or daily basis to run and upload reports to your manufacturing partners. Extracting the data the way your manufacturing partner needs to see it is difficult, labor intensive, and error-prone. It keeps members of your staff from focusing on more strategic sales and company initiatives.
A Better Way For Point-of-Sale and Inventory Data Reporting
InfoNow® DataConnect is an easily installable tool that will automatically extract your sales data for a specific manufacturer, process and format that data to meet the manufacturer’s requirements, and send it to your manufacturer’s data collection portal.
DataConnect provides channel partners:
- A secure and automatic process that runs on a schedule configured to your needs (daily, weekly, monthly, or any other time interval needed)
- Automated reporting from your system that allows flexibility and control over what level of data you want shared with your manufacturers
- A flexible interface that allows you to apply business rules specific to each manufacturer’s format, content, and data collection portal
With DataConnect, you receive world-class support from our team of experts who will be with you
every step of the way, from testing to implementation to production.
The Benefits:
Delivers higher quality, more consistent, and on-time sales and inventory reports to the manufacturer
Saves time and money by eliminating manual processes, including manual errors and embedded knowledge
Frees your staff to focus on other company initiatives
Speeds payments of commissions and rebates by the manufacturer
DataConnect also ensures that companies who sell through indirect channels receive accurate and complete data on a timely basis, enabling them to make informed business decisions on product offerings and target markets that can ultimately increase revenue and improve market share.
The Features:
The built in features of DataConnect give you added confidence that your sales data uploads will run smoothly every time:
Installs and configures with ease
Supports multiple extraction processes
Applies customized business rules
Runs as an automated background service
Has fully internationalized (UTF-8) capabilities
Provides automated error notification
Gives visibility into service status
Runs on a configurable frequency
Supports multiple manufacturers
Gives you control over the content of the reported sales data
Case Study:
Heartland Technologies saves weeks in reporting time using DataConnect.
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Contact us today at866-868-INOW to simplify your sales-out reporting process.