How do you know if your operations are ready to support an ERP change?
This guide walks through the key steps distribution leaders take to evaluate their current environment and prepare for what comes next.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to:
If your team is starting to question whether your systems can keep up, this guide provides a clear framework for evaluating your readiness and planning your next move.
How well are your distribution operations actually performing today?
This quick assessment gives you a clear, structured way to evaluate what’s working—and where things may be starting to break down.
In this download, you’ll learn how to:
In just a few minutes, you’ll have a clearer view of your current state—and what it signals about whether it’s time to start exploring ERP.
Distribution companies today face constant disruption—volatile supply chains, rising customer expectations, faster delivery demands, and pressure to maintain profitability. Technology decisions play a critical role in how distributors respond.
The Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise Customer Impact Report highlights how organizations are improving visibility, performance, and resilience with modern ERP. Inside the report, you’ll see how distributors are navigating change and the results they’ve achieved after implementing Infor CloudSuite Distribution.
Download the report to explore key outcomes and lessons learned.
Supply chain volatility, shifting demand patterns, and inaccurate forecasts can quickly create serious operational challenges for distributors and manufacturers. Overstock ties up working capital, while stock-outs drive customers to competitors.
This Acumatica solution brief explains how modern ERP tools help organizations balance supply and demand using advanced inventory planning strategies.
Created by Acumatica, the guide explores how companies use inventory replenishment, distribution requirements planning (DRP), and material requirements planning (MRP) to improve forecasting accuracy, reduce excess inventory, and increase order fulfillment performance.
The resource outlines practical strategies organizations can use to harmonize supply with actual and forecasted demand while maintaining lean inventory levels.
Download the guide to explore how modern inventory planning strategies can improve supply chain performance and profitability.
A Practical Guide for Distribution Leaders Evaluating ERP Software and Implementation Partners
If you’re evaluating ERP solutions for your distribution business, this guide was built for you.
Replacing or upgrading ERP isn’t just a software decision. It’s a long-term operational decision that impacts inventory visibility, purchasing, fulfillment, financial control, reporting, and scalability.
The Distribution ERP Buyers Playbook provides a structured, unbiased framework to help you evaluate both:
Instead of relying on demos, feature checklists, or persuasive sales narratives, this playbook helps you assess solutions based on how your distribution business actually runs.
Who This Playbook is For
This guide is designed for:
If you are responsible for evaluating ERP options or influencing the decision, this playbook gives you a defensible, objective way to lead the process.
What You’ll Gain
Inside the Playbook, you’ll learn how to:
Selecting ERP is too important to approach casually. This guide helps you move forward with clarity, alignment, and confidence.
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of if—but how well it supports your business goals.
Whether you’re evaluating a move to the cloud or already running Infor in a hosted or cloud-based environment, many organizations face the same challenge: understanding what “cloud-ready” really means as business, security, and reporting demands evolve.
In this educational session, Aktion’s cloud experts will walk through the strategic components of cloud readiness, looking beyond infrastructure to examine security, resilience, scalability, cost visibility, and IT capacity. Using a practical readiness framework, we’ll show how Infor users can identify risk, uncover efficiencies, and ensure their cloud strategy aligns with long-term business and project needs.
You’ll learn:
Distribution operations rarely struggle because of one isolated issue. Pressure tends to build across inventory, fulfillment, supplier coordination, cost visibility, and decision-making, often in ways that are easy to miss when problems are addressed one at a time.
This self-assessment is a structured, guided tool designed to help teams step back and evaluate where operational pressure may be building today across distribution-heavy operations.
What this self-assessment helps you do:
This is a short, structured assessment intended to be worked through thoughtfully, either on your own or with a colleague. It’s not a checklist, and it doesn’t require a large group or formal facilitation.
The goal isn’t to reach conclusions or select solutions. It’s to gain a clearer view of what’s driving operational pressure today and where focused attention may have the greatest impact.
Download the self-assessment to evaluate your current operating reality.
Supercharge Your Finance Team with AI-Powered Infor Value+
Finance teams are under pressure to move faster, reduce manual work, and improve cash flow visibility, all while managing risk and supporting growth across the business.
This executive brief explores how AI-powered Infor Value+ solutions help finance leaders modernize Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable by automating manual processes, centralizing critical information, and enabling faster, more confident decision-making.
In this executive brief, you’ll learn how finance teams can:
For organizations running Infor ERP, this executive brief outlines how AI-powered Infor Value+ solutions help finance teams work more efficiently, reduce operational friction, and accelerate business value, without replacing existing systems.
Distribution businesses are under growing pressure to move faster, manage complexity, and protect margins, all while relying on systems that were often designed for a very different operating reality.
As organizations grow, many teams find themselves “making it work” with manual processes, disconnected systems, and workarounds that quietly impact inventory accuracy, cash flow, and decision-making.
This executive brief provides an overview of how a modern, cloud-based ERP approach can support today’s distribution requirements by improving visibility, reducing operational friction, and enabling more confident planning across the business.
In this executive brief, you’ll learn how distribution-led organizations can:
If your current systems were built for a different era of distribution, this resource outlines what a modern ERP foundation looks like in practice and how it helps organizations move beyond workarounds toward greater control and clarity.
