If you are facing constant distribution challenges and find yourself stuck with how to overcome them, it might be time to review what software you are currently using to run your business.
How come? The reason is simple. With the right wholesale distribution software, you will find yourself automating tedious and repetitive tasks, able to integrate your eCommerce platform and maintain visibility over your sales, be able to use data-driven forecasting to predict customer buying patterns based on historical data, and more.
Simply put, if you pick the right cloud-based distribution ERP software to replace old, outdated, on-premise, legacy software, you will be better equipped to meet your distribution challenges head-on.
From tariff uncertainty in 2025, the Pandemic in the early 2020s, to the various natural disasters that befell Australia (the bushfires, drought, flooding, and so on), Aussie distribution businesses have always had their fair share to contend with.
Amid the predictable and unpredictable disturbances to the industry, the ability for distribution businesses in Australia to not only survive but even thrive during these difficulties hinges on making forward-thinking choices and investments in tools and resources that will help them overcome various challenges.
One way of doing this is investing in an established cloud-based distribution ERP software which has the right features that empower you with data-based moves and countermoves to ward off things like supply-chain disruptions, inventory-sourcing shortfalls, and so on.
Safety stock calculations
Identifying customer churn patterns
Real-time multi-warehouse inventory management
Automated procurement planning
Barcode scanning
If none of these are in use in your distribution business, your software is out of date.
Apart from the functionality listed above, there are more crucial features that the forward-thinking distribution business can use with the right software. In 2025, Artificial Intelligence has been introduced in the modern wholesale distribution ERP software to sift through historical data from past transactions with customers and reduce the time to analyse and forecast trends and predict behaviours quicker than ever before.
In our eBook below, you can read about the special features within MYOB Acumatica, a cloud ERP software for distributors, which empowers distribution companies with the ability to overcome constant and ever-changing issues in the distribution industry, past, present and future.
We have included a real-life example of an Australian wholesale distribution business’s testimonial using MYOB Acumatica.
