Benefits

Improve Profit Margins
DDI's comprehensive Price Matrix provides distributors with the flexibility to fine-tune prices and raise profitability. Eliminate manually driven pricing methods, while tuning your selling prices to increase margin on slow selling products, exploit less price sensitive sales and product lines.

For companies that use sales-history based pricing, DDI's comprehensive Margin Manager guarantees that selling prices are constantly updated to stay ahead of cost increases. The system automatically maintains your company's profitability. Integrated into sales order management, sLap!, FastWeb e-commerce, and Margin Manager will eliminate 'profit leaks' throughout your operations.

Build Sales
Opportunity Manager analyzes your customer sales history, finding 'due-to-buy' products that are beyond your customer's usual buying pattern. DDI's unique Opportunity Manager presents these customers to your field and telephone sales force, displaying customer status, opportunity information for re-order, or accepting a next-call follow-up date.

Effectively Manage Your Inventory Investment
Automated purchasing system keeps stock levels optimized. DDI automatically tracks product demand, demand trend, sales exceptions, and lead times. Even with little inventory control expertise, distributors employing DDI's sophisticated forecasting will begin to achieve effective inventory management within months of implementation.

Improve Communications
Task Messaging delivers user-specific tasks and information directly to your staff. Minimize paper printouts and replace them with real-time, actionable on-screen follow-ups. Automatically generated task messages include low inventory notification, credit hold orders, low gross profit orders, and special order item received. The DDI System can provide over 25 optional user-specific notifications.

Save Time and Money
Minimize and even eliminate paper-based business processes using DDI's proven paperless work flows. Professionally formatted business documents can be laser-printed, faxed or e-mailed with ease. Single copy, process-specific sales orders and shipment confirmation eliminates pre-printed and multi-part forms. Optional Signature Capture eliminates proof-of-delivery hassles and most filing, while saving thousands of dollars annually.

Streamline operations
DDI introduces better work flows that transform your business into a more efficient, smoother running operation. Real-time information flow, on-screen expediting notes, and intelligent task messages help you create a smooth running operation that you and your staff will have confidence to rely on.