Stop managing your business from spreadsheets. Ximple combines cloud ERP with AI-driven analytics so electrical distributors get real-time visibility, demand forecasting, margin protection, and proactive alerts—without waiting for month-end reports.
Most electrical distributors still run their business from Excel exports and aging BI tools. The result? Decisions based on stale data, missed opportunities, and no time to act before problems become crises.
By the time someone exports, cleans, and formats the data, it’s already hours or days old. Markets move faster than your reports.
Your finance team spends the first week of every month building reports instead of analyzing them.
Spreadsheets show what happened—not what’s about to happen. You discover stockouts when customers complain.
Which version is correct? The one from email, SharePoint, or someone’s desktop? Nobody knows.
Sales data in one system, inventory in another, rebates in a spreadsheet. Nobody has the full picture.
You see the number is bad, but can’t easily drill into which branch, customer, or product is causing it.
Only one person knows how to build the reports. When they’re out, so is your visibility.
Need a new report? Get in line. Legacy BI requires IT to build and maintain every view.
Signs Your Reporting Isn’t Working:
Many electrical distributors still run on-premise ERP—Eclipse, P21, or custom systems on local servers. Here’s what changes when you move to modern cloud ERP.
| Capability | On-Premise ERP | Ximple Cloud ERP |
|---|---|---|
| Access | VPN required; slow from remote locations | Browser-based; fast from anywhere |
| Updates | Manual upgrades; often years behind | Automatic updates; always current |
| Server Maintenance | Your responsibility (or expensive MSP) | Handled by Ximple; zero IT overhead |
| Backups & Recovery | Manual backup routines; risk of data loss | Automatic, geo-redundant backups |
| Security Patches | Applied manually (often delayed) | Applied automatically within hours |
| AI & Analytics | Requires separate BI tools and exports | Built-in AI and real-time dashboards |
| Scalability | Buy bigger servers as you grow | Scales automatically with usage |
| Total Cost | High upfront + unpredictable maintenance | Predictable subscription; lower TCO |
Coming from Eclipse, P21, or DDI? Ximple includes migration tools and expertise to move your data, configurations, and integrations to the cloud. Most migrations complete in 12-16 weeks.
When analytics are built into your ERP—not bolted on—distributors see measurable improvements across operations.
32%
Fewer stockouts with AI forecasting
18 bps
Margin recovered via AI detection
75%
Faster month-end reporting
Real-time
Visibility vs. week-old reports
Ximple’s AI isn’t generic analytics—it’s trained on electrical distribution patterns: seasonality, construction cycles, vendor lead times, matrix pricing, and rebate programs.
Predict demand by SKU, branch, and vendor using historical sales, seasonality, and construction cycles. Auto-adjust for promotions and price changes. Generate recommended POs for review.
Detect margin leakage across discounts, overrides, freight, terms, and under-recovered SPAs. Alert sales managers before bad deals close. Track leakage by customer, branch, and rep.
Predict stockouts 2-4 weeks in advance based on sales velocity, lead times, and open orders. Recommend safety stock adjustments or inter-branch transfers before you miss sales.
Analyze elasticity, customer behavior, and competitor pricing to recommend price changes. Flag contracts and SPAs that need updates when costs or volumes change.
Compare fill rates, turns, margins, and productivity across branches. Identify best practices from top performers and replicate across the network.
Calculate true cost-to-serve including delivery frequency, returns, payment terms, and support costs. Identify which customers are profitable—and which are margin drains.
AI Assists—You Decide: AI highlights patterns, risks, and opportunities. It generates recommendations and surfaces exceptions. But final decisions always stay with your team. AI is a tool, not a replacement for human judgment.
Every dashboard is designed for a specific role—executives see KPIs, buyers see PO recommendations, warehouse managers see picking efficiency. No more one-size-fits-all reports.
Revenue, gross margin %, GMROII, working capital, inventory turns, and cash cycle by branch or region. Drill down to any number.
Dead stock, excess inventory, service-level gaps, and branch-level ATP accuracy across all electrical SKUs.
Hidden margin loss across overrides, discounts, SPA recovery, freight absorption, and customer-specific pricing rules.
Cost-to-serve, delivery frequency, returns, and buying patterns for key contractors and wholesale customers.
Accrual vs. actuals, rebate tiers, SPA performance, and vendor scorecards to support negotiations.
Compare fill rates, stockouts, quoting speed, and operational efficiency across branches and DCs.
Here’s how AI forecasting works day-to-day for electrical distributors.
AI reviews sales history, seasonality, and patterns
Factors in lead times, promotions, price changes
Generates demand forecast by SKU and branch
Creates suggested POs for buyer review
Flags stockout risks 2-4 weeks ahead
Improves accuracy with each cycle
Instead of discovering issues after month-end, Ximple surfaces risks and opportunities while there’s still time to act.
Inventory Alerts
Projected stockouts at specific branches
Slow-moving SKUs approaching obsolescence
Excess inventory tying up working capital
Transfer opportunities vs. new purchases
Margin Alerts
Unprofitable customers or contracts
Under-recovered SPAs and rebates
Excessive discounting by rep or branch
Freight absorption impacting margins
Moving from on-premise to cloud doesn’t have to be disruptive. Ximple’s migration approach keeps your business running while we handle the technical work.
Customer and vendor master data
Inventory levels and locations
Pricing rules, contracts, and SPAs
Open orders and purchase orders
Historical transactions (as needed)
User accounts and permissions
Week 1-4: Data mapping and configuration
Week 5-8: Data migration and validation
Week 9-12: User training and testing
Week 13-14: Parallel operation
Week 15-16: Go-live and support
Zero IT Headaches After Migration: Once you’re on Ximple Cloud, there are no servers to maintain, no patches to apply, no upgrades to schedule. Your IT team can focus on strategic projects instead of keeping the lights on.
Spreadsheets require manual data exports, become stale within hours, and can’t handle multi-branch inventory, matrix pricing, and rebate complexity. Legacy BI tools sit on top of on-premise ERP, creating data lag and requiring IT involvement to build reports.
No. AI highlights patterns, risks, and opportunities across your electrical distribution data. It generates recommendations and surfaces exceptions. Final decisions always stay with your purchasing, sales, and operations teams.
Cloud ERP runs in secure data centers with automatic updates, browser-based access, and no server maintenance. On-premise requires local servers, IT staff, manual upgrades, and VPN access. Cloud typically has lower total cost and faster access to new features like AI.
Yes. Ximple replaces standalone B2B platforms that require constant syncing. Because eCommerce is built into the ERP, there’s no middleware, no sync delays, and no reconciliation issues.
AI analyzes historical sales, seasonality, lead times, and construction cycles to predict future demand by SKU, branch, and vendor. It automatically adjusts for promotions and price changes, then generates recommended purchase orders for review.
Purchasing, sales, warehouse operations, finance, and branch management all benefit. Each team gets role-based dashboards showing the metrics and AI recommendations most relevant to their work.
Ximple ERP runs on a single real-time data model across pricing, inventory, WMS, CRM, eCommerce, and finance. Because every transaction flows through one system, AI insights are based on consistent, trustworthy data—not spreadsheet exports.
Yes. Most distributors complete cloud migration in 12-16 weeks, including data migration, testing, and training. Ximple’s team handles the technical migration while your team focuses on business as usual.
Yes. Ximple uses enterprise-grade security including encryption in transit and at rest, SOC 2 compliance, automatic backups, and role-based access controls. Most cloud ERP is more secure than on-premise systems with outdated patches.
AI forecasting improves over time as it learns your business patterns. Most distributors see 20-30% improvement in forecast accuracy vs. manual methods within 6 months of implementation.
Yes. AI generates recommendations—like suggested POs or price changes—that go into review queues. Your team approves, modifies, or rejects each recommendation. Nothing happens automatically without human approval.
See how Ximple compares for your specific situation. We’ll configure a demo around your product mix, pricing complexity, and operational requirements.
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