How Zoho can bridge the gap between sales, inventory and distribution

25 Sep · 4 min read

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Managing all aspects of your business isn’t easy. There is likely going to be some oversight except your business is fully automated. By automating your business processes with Zoho, it means you can track all your business operations at the same time. You can ensure each aspect of your business performs just as great as the others.

Before the era of automated business processes, sales, inventory and distribution were in a different world of their own. Large enterprise found it hard to streamline all these business operations. 

Zoho Inventory and Zoho CRM however bridges that gap by unifying sales processes with inventory and distribution, thus boosting productivity.

Although tracking of inventory is complicated, Zoho Inventory streamlines this business operations. With it, you can easily keep track of distributed stock, schedule notifications about low stock levels, add and update inventory details.

Zoho inventory also comes with a built-in distribution management system. This helps your company manage its supply chain and logistics (warehouse). It integrates these activities with your company’s financials and sales.

It allows you to manage your inventory, sales, orders and shipments easier and faster. On the other hand, Zoho CRM provides you with a platform that manages multi-level business operations. These include: existing customer relationships, tracking of leads and provision of sales reports and analytics. 

Introducing Zoho Inventory and Zoho CRM

Zoho Inventory and Zoho CRM are leading applications for SMBs and FMCG businesses. They can help you to grow your business by keeping track of your sales, inventory and distribution processes. With Zoho Inventory and Zoho CRM you can track the financial progress of your company and just about how much stock goes out.

These applications work great with other third-party applications. You can seamlessly integrate it with other Zoho applications. You could also customise a distribution management app on Zoho Creator and integrate it with Zoho Inventory to get the best of Zoho Inventory.

Things you can do with Zoho Inventory

Inventory management

Zoho Inventory allows you to run a more efficient business by keeping track of every unit and fulfilled order. 

• Manage orders

You can manage your online and offline orders with Zoho inventory. You can also create shipments, backdrops and purchase orders all on one platform. 

• End-to-end tracking

You can track every item in your inventory with batch tracking features and serial numbers. it makes it easy for you to know when a batch expires and when items are on the move for distribution. 

• Multiple shipping integrations

Zoho Inventory allows you to get in-transit details of shipping carriers. You also get access to real-time shipping rates which helps you to better select a distributor for your business.

• Accounting and CRM integrations

Zoho Inventory integrates easily with Zoho CRM and Zoho Books. These manage your contacts, orders and financial data seamlessly.

• Warehouse Management

With Zoho Inventory, you can check stock levels, generate reports for warehouses and manage inter-warehouse.  

• Logistics

With Zoho inventory you can manage your vehicles, drivers, shipments and distributors. You get automated SMS/email notifications and mobile support for the management of your goods distribution. You could also integrate with a stand alone distribution management application for full distribution support.

• Analyse operational data.

You can easily review your inventory turnover, worker efficiency and customer satisfaction with a comprehensive report and metrics from your dashboard.

• Optimise your delivery channels.

You can save time by automating delivery confirmation emails and route assignment. Drivers can easily update their statuses in real time.  

• Efficiently handle purchase orders.

Zoho Inventory simplifies purchase orders. Orders details can easily be entered into the software and the invoice copy uploaded in no time.

• Distribution management features

Zoho Inventory enables you to control and monitor your distribution network, track inventory, fill orders and manage sales activities.

Benefits of Zoho CRM

Increased sales

Zoho CRM increases your sale. Zoho CRM can be customised to provide a more personalised customer experience and follow up on high priority leads. Thus, resulting in increased sales.

Track and manage leads

Zoho CRM allows you to track leads, score leads and manage leads efficiently.

Unify sales and inventory management

Zoho CRM when integrated with Zoho Inventory, it enables you to track the number of sales while updating your inventory status in real time.

Learn more about Zoho CRM

Zoho CRM and Zoho Inventory removes the disparity between your sales, inventory and distribution. This is because you can monitor all these processes on one integrated platform and ensure your products or services meet the demand of customers.

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