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
"I have had the pleasure of using MapBusinessOnline for the past 5 years and it is an excellent and affordable tool for my clients. I am a franchise consultant, and many of my clients are just starting to get into franchising. The first main question many of them have is they don’t know the demographics around their current location, so they don’t know how to create territories for their franchisees. I am able to easily utilize MapBusinessOnline to draw a prototype territory around their existing location, do a deep dive into the many different demographics that MapBusinessOnline offers, and help the client determine the basics of their new territories, including mileage, population, household count, purchasing habits and age distributions. This tool has been so helpful that many of our clients obtain their own accounts as they begin to sell franchises and grow their business. Thank you, MapBusinessOnline, for providing such a helpful tool that is affordable and easy to use!"
Colette Bell
Director of Business Development
SMB Franchise Advisors
The Alternative Board (TED), an advisory board creation service for business of all types and sizes, used MapPoint to import customer locations, create and manage territories, and for visual market analysis. When MapPoint left them high and dry, they began looking for a MapPoint replacement. This process led them to MapBusinessOnline.
Over a period of a few weeks MapBusinessOnline shared several online web demo that showed exactly how MapBusinessOnline would replace and improve upon the mapping technology TED had become used to. The Alternative Board recently renewed their Map Business Online subscription for another year.
The Alternative Board
"I had an excellent experience with MapBusinessOnline because my company works in the agriculture industry and makes maps showing where our fields are and these maps need to be viewed and shared in a database. Your product seemed to fit our needs. Overall good support, ease of use, and quality of maps created!"
Seneca Foods
