The Covid-19 pandemic has a significant impact on how business people run their businesses, including distribution businesses. Face-to-face interactions are limited, consumer demand is rapidly changing, and the timeliness of goods supply is difficult to predict.
Many businesses adapt to pandemic conditions by adopting digital technology, including online selling and various applications for the operation and marketing of their products. The Indonesian government has also appealed to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to start transforming into digital.
Read more: How to Make the Supply Chain More Efficient
To encourage businessmen, especially distributors & SMEs, to participate in digital transformation, Advotics launched a platform, Distri, in webinar events “Optimize Your Distribution Business in the Digital Age” on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Distri is suitable for those who want to step into the digital age while facilitating and increasing the operational productivity of their distribution business.
Attended by more than 80 dist.ributors & SMEs from all over Indonesia, this event was filled by experts with 20+ years of experience in the production and distribution industry of goods in Indonesia:
- Mr Rachmat Hidayat, Head of Public Policy of the Indonesian Beverage Food Producers (GAPMMI)
- Mr Anas Bachtiar, Sales Force Effectiveness Manager of Wyeth Nutrition Indonesia
- Mr Singgih Adwiarto, SVP of Enterprise Sales Advotics
- Ms Venny Septiani, Head of Growth & SMB Advotics
In the panel discussion session, the speakers talked about the impact of the digitization trend on the distribution business, from opportunities, threats, risks and potential for disruption if the distributor does not follow the digitalization trend, while answering questions directly from the participants.
“Disruption or uncertainty is happening now if the dis.tributor does not adapt to technology that can make the company efficient in doing business. In that case, the distributor will surely experience difficulties,” said one of the panelists, Anas Bachtiar, Sales Force Effectiveness Manager in Wyeth Nutrition Indonesia.
“Many of these distributors have experienced internal problems, such as manipulation problems. “Data manipulation & financial manipulation” is a nightmare for them, which mostly they can’t handle well. The solution is to ensure that all databases, from the logistics, financial, distribution and human resources aspects, are integrated into one technological unit.” Anas added.
Read more: Inefficient RI Distribution System, This Is the Solution
In a session hosted by Venny Septiani (Head of Growth & SMB Advotics), Distri was introduced as a complete dis.tribution digitization solution specifically for dis.tributors and SMEs. It’s a platform that connects field teams and management or back-office teams. All operational dis.tribution activities from order management, stock management, promotional programs, invoice & payment, shipping & product return, financial statements to business analysis, & the dashboard are synchronized and stored in the cloud to be seen instantly.
Distri is also has a variety of advanced features such as:
- Omnichannel Sales
Accommodate orders from various sales channels; sales executives, back office, B2B, and marketplace, which are equipped with real-time stock synchronization.
- Geofencing
Monitor field team activity. Live-tracking through the application for field teams (sales associates, canvassers, and drivers) that usually work remotely.
- Accounting
Bookkeeping is integrated directly with all transactions in one portal. Monitor, organize, and generate financial statements in the same portal.
For digital sales channels, Distri has been integrated with the Tokopedia e-commerce platform. Not only that, Distri also works with Stripe’s payment gateway for online payments that will be confirmed automatically on the portal.
The next session was the Q&A session. This session was filled with lively questions & discussions from dis.tributors & SMEs who are curious about how technology like Distri can help them maintain their position in the industry. Even after the event, many of them still want to discuss via email & Distri’s social media!
The webinar event then closed with several exciting games with Distri subscription vouchers price worth up to 90 million rupiahs. Three lucky winners can immediately feel how digitalization makes their distribution business easy.
Wait forward to our following events and other exciting information from Distri! Those of you who missed this webinar can directly access our YouTube on the following link:
Digital Trends: Opportunities or Threats for Distributors?
In the excitement of DlSTRl’s grand launching, get a 10% discount promo to subscribe to DlSTRl by registering before April 30 2022, by clicking here.
