As competition gets more intense each day, companies worldwide including trading businesses are looking for ways to reduce their operating costs. Like their manufacturing counterparts, trading businesses require a business solution that enables them to have better control over their distribution system and procurement life cycle, to have real time information in respect of their businesses, as well as to minimize human errors in their business processes. This will lead to higher efficiency and lower costs in running their businesses, and finally maximum profitability.

Unlike most manufacturing businesses, trading businesses generally place more emphasis on the real-time inventory and automated stock allocation functions. This is largely due to the constraints of not being able to afford large inventories, and the necessity to buy and sell quickly. In addition, distinctive functions like Flexible Pricing and Discounting, Kiting Functions, Back-to-back Orders, Drop Shipment, and Consignment Orders, to name a few, complement trading businesses tremendously as it provides the flexibility in the core business, i.e. buying and selling. For real-time business processing and delivery capabilities in a seamless sale and procurement chain, that provides trading businesses the competitive edge and power to meet greater business challenges.