Activant Eagle for Distribution

Activant Eagle for Distribution is a fully “customer-centric” management system, designed especially for small to medium-sized distributors. Offering far more than a general accounting system, but without the cost and inflexibility of massive enterprise systems, Activant Eagle helps distributors achieve new levels of customer service while lowering costs and increasing profits.

Surviving in a Tough Market
Nobody has to tell you that the past few years have been a challenge for the wholesale distribution market. As an independent distributor, you have to face an uncertain economy, increased competition from large chains, shrinking margins and rising overhead.

Older management systems have not been designed to meet current challenges. Often, these systems offer either limited functionality or complicated features that are hard to learn and even harder to use.

Increase Your Competitiveness
With Activant Eagle, you can provide a new level of service by responding more effectively to customer needs, supporting special orders with greater efficiency, handling complex custom pricing and credits and better anticipating future requests. Moreover, Activant Eagle is designed for both technical and non-technical users, leading to greater system usage and rapid adoption across the business.

Activant Eagle helps you become more competitive based on three key capabilities. Active Architecture lets you tailor Activant Eagle to any number of specific information and system requirements—without hiring an IT department. Active Knowledge allows you to be proactive with management dashboards and automatic alerts. Active Service enables you to deliver innovative, high-margin services that meet the exact needs of your customers.

Why Distributors Should Consider Activant Eagle:
   Increase customer loyalty with breakthrough service
   Experience quick, simple installation and easy-to-use features
   Customize to meet your individual business needs and preferences
   Increase profitability on orders
   Expedite special items quickly and efficiently

Key Benefits for Distributors with Activant Eagle

Outstanding Flexibility with Active Architecture
A flexible, customer-focused system architecture enables Activant Eagle to be tailored to any number of specific information and system requirements.
   Change viewers on-the-fly to match the needs of the company or specific users
   Customize information grids, specifying the content, format, and arrangement of data
   Automate system tasks, events, and reporting so that your system is always working for you day and night, keeping available information one-step ahead of your business.

Greater Insight with Active Knowledge
Active Knowledge provides the right information to the right person at the right time so you can better plan, refine and execute your business services.
   Identify top customers, top sales personnel or top revenue-producing items by using management dashboards
   Drill-down capabilities for more details
   Accurate identification of trends
   Receive critical data instantly with automatic alerts
   Better management of backorders, late payments, prices that are below margin or other urgent delivery issues

Increased Customer Loyalty with Active Service
Distributors can deliver high-margin, value-added services that proactively address the needs of their clients.
   Access to customer information to answer questions or resolve issues immediately
   Predict product delivery dates based on available inventory (Available to Promise)
   Take advantage of low-cost, flexible Internet technology with the Activant iNet family of e-business products
   Direct access by customers to their account information
   Flexible access by customers to the distributor’s inventory information
   Streamlined job billing
   Built-in check posting reconciliation
   Payments applied across multiple jobs

   Reduce paper-handling costs and processing errors with document imaging and management
   Customized electronic document imaging (EDI)
   Secure document exchange
   Signature capture

Comprehensive Business Solutions
Activant Eagle provides a comprehensive range of functionality to help independent distributors increase the quality and range of their services.
   Support receiving and shipping, as well as ongoing management of inventory turns with Advanced Inventory Management
   Use Windows-based Order Entry with advanced search tools and automatic pricing
   Deliver complex, special and routine orders with Pick/Pack/Ship flow
   Streamline receiving, handling and shipping with Radio Frequency (RF) handheld devices and software fully integrated with inventory management
   Take advantage of advanced filtering, check posting reconciliation, the ability to apply payments across multiple customer jobs and other powerful functions with Accounts Receivables/Payable

ABOUT ACTIVANT
Activant is a leading provider of business management solutions designed for companies with complex products in high-service distribution environments. Over 20,000 wholesale, retail and manufacturing customers use Activant to help drive new levels of business performance. With proven experience and success, Activant is fast becoming an industry standard for companies seeking competitive advantage through stronger customer integration. Our business management solutions include advanced software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity and analytics.

Activant
Industry Solutions Group
7683 Southfront Road
Livermore, CA 94551
Phone: (800) 538-8597
Email: industry.marketing@activant.com
Web: www.activant.com