Distribution & Wholesaler Mapping Software
Distributors/wholesalers require plenty of flexibility to optimize and justify their position in the supply chain, between suppliers and customers. This could mean shorter and more frequent cycle times, accommodating changing customer demands, getting by with tighter profit margins and a managing a ever changing retail environment. Distributors must continually sift and mine data to gain insights into the business landscape and maintain a competitive edge. From local chains to national distribution companies, it’s important to understand the effect location has on your business.
MapBusinessOnline provides business mapping solutions that enable distributors of all sizes to help optimize their inventory planning, delivery networks and order management processes. Distributors and wholesalers benefit from our powerful suite of data visualization, market analysis and sales territory mapping tools.
How Business Mapping Software Can Benefit Distribution Businesses
MapBusinessOnline software is designed to provide distributors with the tools they need to ensure fast and accurate fulfillment. Key capabilities include:
- Site selection: Site selection is one of the key benefits of business mapping software for wholesalers. With MapBusinessOnline, you can create custom maps that display your suppliers and retail locations. If you’re planning on expanding your business or moving to a new location, this provides useful context for understanding end-customer requirements and choosing a site accordingly. MapBusinessOnline can also help locate your competitors and identify underserved areas that offer the most potential for expansion.
- Distribution planning: Wholesalers use business mapping on a day-to-day basis to visualize warehouse locations and associated inventory dollars. Import data from your sales spreadsheets and other platforms to analyze your data from a geographic perspective that will inform your strategic decision-making. Look for trends around where you allocate resources and how to optimize delivery routes. Ultimately, with MapBusinessOnline, you can move products faster and run a leaner operation overall, without compromising customer service. Maps are for planning.
- Customer mapping: Business mapping software can be used to create and search custom sales territories by trade area. Use MapBusinessOnline to aggregate and display purchasing dollars by location, locate promising leads, and incorporate demographic data in a way that helps you better understand your customers. With access to geographic sales intelligence and your customer visualizations, your team can plan more effective marketing campaigns and deliver more targeted services.
- Collaboration: MapBusinessOnline is extremely useful for collaboration, particularly in multi-site warehousing operations. Use it to share key metrics with warehouse and delivery personnel, or to share interactive maps and reports with staff, management and partners. MapBusinessOnline is cloud-based, which means all stakeholders have access to the most recent data sets via their computer or smartphone. Web-maps are publicly shared at extremely low cost.
MapBusinessOnline is one of the most economical warehouse mapping software platforms available. Choose from several subscription options. Multi-site distribution centers should consider the MBO Team edition. The Team edition of MapBusinessOnline includes support for 5 users and up, access to premium content and the ability to share maps for collaborative editing. Leverage your best minds towards solving problems with shared map editing.
Use MapBusinessOnline Team edition to establish collaborative map sharing across your teams and departments to leverage team decision making. Team mapping lets you integrate various data sources onto a shared, editable map. Now your sales, accounting, and operations can view the same business visualizations and results reporting, driving more effective decisions all around. Imagine all departments sharing a map to solve problems.
For more information about various subscription models and pricing options, contact a MapBusinessOnline representative directly.
Importing Your Business Data into MapBusinessOnline Software
Whether you rely on an Excel spreadsheet or a CRM solution for your business data, MapBusinessOnline has a user-friendly interface that simplifies the entire process of uploading data into our system. We provide clear instructions to get you up and running quickly. If you need any help, we also have a knowledgeable and experienced staff that is ready to assist you.
MapBusinessOnline provides distributors and wholesalers with innovative, cost-effective business mapping software, along with the benefit of almost 20 years of experience in the industry. We only source map data from the best GIS experts in the world, which means you’ll always have the most reliable data available. Our mapping software for distribution and wholesalers is easy to use - register today for our free, 1-month offer.
Learn How Our Customers are Succeeding with MapBusinessOnline
"We quickly grew from a one location small-business to a franchised business with 8 locations across the country. After selling our first few franchises, I realized I needed a way to map out a potential franchisee's territory. Initially I just wanted to be able to create territories based on drive time from an address, which is easy to do with MapBusinessOnline. What I didn't know I needed was the ability to export census data, including information on other dog related business, which is very helpful!"
Steve Sentner
Co-Owner
Paw & Order Dog Training
"We've tried the REST now we are using the BEST. After searching and trying other mapping programs for our delivery operations team and finding that we just couldn't get all the features that we required, we finally found MapBusinessOnline. Not only did it have all the features we needed including Longitude/Latitude and optimizing delivery routes, but it provided us tons of other bells and whistles. MBO proved to be a superb tool for our operations team to create routes and territories with the click of a few buttons while also allowing our reporting team to make beautiful maps that help our executive team visualize the story the data was telling. We are using this for the 2nd year in a row and will be renewing when it is time again. We pride ourselves at offering cutting edge applications to our millions of readers and subscribers worldwide and love that MBO helps us stay ahead of the technology curve by continuing to update their product and features. The release of MBO for the Desktop was a great addition and only helps make using the product even easier. To the staff at MBO — Keep up the great work!"
Dow Jones
"I have been using MapBusinessOnline for about 8 months and couldn’t be happier with the services it provides. I have employees and myself who map around 250 routes monthly for our sales team. The interface is easy-to-use and the abilities are exactly what I need. My sales team finds the maps and step by step routes easy to follow and accurate. My store lists change every quarter and the uploading system allows me to quickly upload a new list and categorize the account by priority using colors and shapes. I have also used the heat mapping capabilities and found those easy to customize and quick to use. As with any advanced software, this does take a week or two to learn the more complex features, but it is well worth the time invested. This is the software I would have designed if I was to create one myself. Great job!!!"
Bill Hanavan
Director of Operations
Strategic Retail Solutions
