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Dealer Portal

The Dealer Portal is central repository for a company to interact with its Dealers. The portal can be accessed through the SAP Enterprise Portal (EP)


It provide Dealers with:

  • Latest product information including products, prices, brochures etc.
  • Product availability information including stock availability and lead times
  • An online, real-time order-entry and order-tracking tool
  • An online, real-time reporting system for orders, deliveries, invoices and account balances

    It provides a company with:
  • An easy interface to disseminate product information to dealers
  • A real-time order-entry system without the need to use its own employees to enter orders

A real-time system to post invoices, credit history and account balance of customers (dealers)
Dealer Portal Functions
The Dealer Portal comprises the following components:

  • Product Information
    •  Product Catalog
    •  Product Pricing
    •  Product Lead times

Transactions

  • Order Entry
  • Invoice

Reporting

  • Order Status Tracking
  • Delivery Status Tracking
  • Invoice Reporting
  • Dealer Credit Limits
  • Dealer Account Statement

Collaboration

  • Grievance redressal
  • Discount Request
  • Feedback
    Benefits Using the Dealer Portal
  • Order entry time reduced and error free
  • Lower cost due to self-service process of order entry
  • More agile supply chain as there is no time lag between order creation by dealer and visibility within supply chain
  • Ease of Tracking and Managing without need for internal personnel to communicate with Dealers
  • More effective Dealer Communication
  • Wider Spectrum of Customer targeted without having to communicate individually
  • Promotional Activities at lower costs

Dealer Portal References

  • Customers : Hero Honda Motors Ltd
  • Business Need : Enabling the two way communication with Dealers
  • New development for Dealer to enter the Pre Delivery Inspection details to eliminate manual intervention with excel file
  • Solution : Dealer Portal
  • Technical details : ECC 6.0,  Netweaver 7.0


Benefits realized due to dealer portal implementation

  • A role-based access to the enterprise portal
  • A web-based access to the enterprise portal
  • A single logging identity or a single sign on
  • An access to a single repository from central locations