Third-party applications

This Infor CloudSuite Distribution supports optional integration with third-party applications.

Enterprise Printing Platform

Enterprise Printing Platform is a third-party, server-based software that integrates to your ERP to print labels that are associated with Integrated Barcode and cartonization.

Distribution SX.e uses Infor ION to print labels with the Enterprise Printing Platform application. Infor ION converts data into the common language of standardized XML to enable disparate business systems such as Infor products, third-party applications, and in-house developed applications to share information.

The Enterprise Printing Platform uses data and enterprise printers from Distribution SX.e to generate label output. Enterprise Printing Platform supports a wide range of printers. It does not require special print servers or dedicated hardware.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM is a leading cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) business solution that can help you drive sales productivity and improve the value of your marketing efforts through social insights, business intelligence, and campaign management.

Salesforce

Salesforce is a cloud-hosted customer relationship management (CRM) product that allows companies to identify, monitor, and strengthen relationships with existing and potential customers.

Salesforce's adaptable platform combines an easy-to-use user interface with powerful scripting languages to allow its customers to build a tailored product to meet their requirements.

Stripe

The Stripe credit card processor and payment gateway application can be used to process credit card sales and authorizations for orders and received on account payments, as well as referenced returns on sales orders.

The CloudSuite Distribution integration uses Stripe's Payment Element JavaScript component to ensure the secure handling of credit card data and to promote PCI compliancy. In addition, the Stripe REST API is used to accept and return encoded data with CloudSuite Distribution. Stripe uses tokenization to securely authorize and settle credit card transactions. Cardholder data is stored and managed by Stripe and not in the ERP's system.

Using the Stripe Terminal component, this integration also supports Stripe internet-connected, pre-certified credit card readers, such as BBPOS WisePOS E. Customer payment information and transaction details, including the status of processed sales, authorizations, and referenced returns, can be viewed in the Stripe Dashboard.

CenPOS

CenPOS is a hosted payment solution that stores and protects your customer cardholder data (CHD) in CenPOS servers.

You do not store or manage CHD locally on your systems. The CenPOS solution uses tokenization and primary account number (PAN) truncation to lessen your burden of PCI-DSS requirements. The solution provides real-time authorizations for transactions, and handles the settlement portion as well. The CenPOS Virtual Terminal provides credit card processing solutions for several transaction types, for example, sale, authorization, return.

Avalara AvaTax

AvaTax is a cloud-based sales tax calculation product, which determines and calculates the latest rates based on location, item, legislative changes, regulations, and more.

Avalara's AvaTax enables you to keep up with sales and use tax requirements, generate reports on tax returns, and handle exemptions.

Sovos GTD

Sovos Global Tax Determination (GTD) automatically calculates tax for sales, use, goods and services, and value-adds in any location in the United States, including its territories, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, and over 200 countries around the world.

Based on geo code, Sovos GTD identifies the appropriate location or jurisdiction for which any state,province, county, city, or district taxes are to be charged. It also determines the type of tax being charged. Sovos GTD can apply special rates based on product types or urban enterprise zones (UEZ),where appropriate, and manage your customer’s tax exemption certificates.

Sovos GTD also calculates taxes on vendor invoices in jurisdictions where you, as the distributor, are liable for taxes. An audit file records transactions as they are processed, providing a clear audit trail for future use, as well as a source of historical reports.

Sovos GTD can be deployed as a Premise Edition or Hosted Edition. Depending on the deployment type, some installation, configuration, features, and functions in CloudSuite Distribution may differ.

Vertex Cloud

Vertex Cloud provides cloud-based solutions that can be tailored to specific industries for every major line of indirect tax. This includes sales and consumer use, value added, and payroll.

Vertex Cloud automatically calculates tax for sales, use, goods and services, and value-adds in any location in the United States (including its territories), the Canadian provinces, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and several countries around the world.

Use the Vertex Cloud administrator portal to activate Vertex Cloud, set up your company profile, and set up your organization nexus jurisdictions. Use the portal to map codes to Distribution SX.e products, addons, and other charges.

Project Job Management

Project Job Management (PJM) is an MVPP application that manages small contract bids and large commercial jobs. It supports project initiation, contractor and sub-contractor bidding, job activation, and job fulfillment.

With PJM, you can track multiple quotes and bidders for a project. You can manage all of your quotes, projects, and jobs, including revisions and change orders, on a single screen. You can manage multiple quotes and multiple customers by project, bid times, bid dates, project types, project statuses, and budgets. The information is presented as graphical key performance indicators (KPIs).

PJM enables you to create bids efficiently. You can import existing quotes to create new quotes and use groups of pre-determined items for particular types of quotes. You can include stock, non-stock, and special lines, groupings of products with individually-priced products, and multiple categories on the quotes.

After you win a bid, you can convert the project and quote into a job. During job management, you can create releases and initiate multiple purchase orders for multiple vendors. You can also schedule critical equipment requirement release and order dates that trigger reminders. If the job changes, you can use the change order management to track details.

With PJM, you have complete visibility into all job details, including variances of both estimated and actual sales, costs, and gross margins. You can track profitability and monitor critical job metrics at the category, group, or line level. You can also generate job reports, such as booking, job status, and job profitability.