SAP AG, a provider of business software solutions, announced the launch of SAP for Wholesale Distribution, an industry solution comprising SAP's core enterprise software and new tailored applications to help wholesale distribution companies improve operational excellence and profitability. SAP also announced the creation of a dedicated business unit, Wholesale & Trade, which will focus on the unique requirements of mid-size and large companies in the wholesale distribution sector.

Designed as a modular solution, SAP for Wholesale Distribution enables companies to incrementally deploy business applications that meet the most pressing demands of their organizations, suppliers and customers, while creating a scalable IT infrastructure to seize the new opportunities continually rising in this changing market. The program improves wholesalers' and distributors' daily procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes with new wholesale-specific functionality for purchase order, warehouse management and inventory optimization, direct store delivery and trading business.