Aptean Distribution ERP 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Aptean Distribution ERP

4.1

(18)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Aptean Distribution ERP

Aptean Distribution ERP is a powerful, industry-specific software solution designed to meet the unique needs of consumer goods distributors and importers. With Aptean, businesses can streamline their operations by integrating core functions such as supply chain management, inventory control, warehousing, and financials.

Ideal for medium to large-sized enterprises, this ERP system offers tools that enhance visibility, improve operational efficiency, and increase profitability. Key features include comprehensive EDI and chargeback management, which ensures compliance with retailer requirements and reduces costly chargebacks. The system also offers advanced analytics capabilities through Power BI, enabling users to gain deep insights into their operations, forecast demand, and optimize inventory levels.

Aptean Distribution ERP’s direct-to-consumer shipping capabilities are particularly valuable for businesses with high-volume consumer orders. The platform’s built-in functionalities, such as ‘Pick by Label,’ allow distributors to fulfill orders efficiently and maintain high customer satisfaction. Aptean’s solution also includes industry-specific features for demand forecasting, suppl...

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Aptean Distribution ERP Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $50,000.00

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Aptean Distribution ERP Features

Popular features found in Enterprise Resource Planning
Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Business Process Automation
CRM
HR Management
Inventory Management
Order Management
Project Management
Purchase Order Management
Reporting/Analytics
Supply Chain Management
Task Management
More features of Aptean Distribution ERP
Activity Dashboard
API
Barcoding/RFID
Compliance Management
Data Import/Export
Demand Forecasting
Distribution Management
EDI
Financial Management
Forecasting
Import/Export Management
Inventory Optimization
Multi-Currency
Order Fulfillment
Purchasing & Receiving
Quotes/Estimates
Returns Management
Sales Forecasting
Sales & Operations Planning
Shipping Management
Supplier Management
Transportation Management
User Management
Warehouse Management
Workflow Management

Aptean Distribution ERP User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

39%

17%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.1

Verified

Reviewer

Wholesale

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Great ERP System

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I really enjoy the versatility of the system; how it can be formatted to present whatever data you need.

Cons:

Due to it's versatility, it doesn't work well to provide specific reports. You have to export the data to excel to manipulate the data.

Michal S.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Apprise

It's one platform for majority of the business needs - importing goods from oversea and distributing locally/internationally.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of working with data - various enquiries and reports. Import capabilities for mass updates/data entry.

Cons:

Sometimes it's difficult to find out all consequences. It would be nice if the Help doc it's more descriptive in more often. Also, integration with other parties is not very easy to make.

Reasons for switching to Aptean Distribution ERP

A more robust solution was needed.

Jeanne A.

Verified reviewer

Apparel & Fashion

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Apprise

Apprise is user friendly and easy to learn. Navigation of the system is easy as well

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Apprise is a good software for our wholesale distribution needs. The inventory control, customer orders and purchase order functions are easy. It is easy to customize product to our customers with this system as well.

Cons:

I am not fond that the order fullfilment and shipping is not done through this system. Another system is linked to it to complete the process.

Darien B.

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Powerful ERP, User-Friendly Package

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Apprise has modeled everything from purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, warehouse management, and accounting and packaged it all in an easy-to-use interface. As our company has grown, we've found that the capabilities of Apprise have been able to keep up and we're using features now that we never planned on using when we first went live. Apprise has a process for just about everything and if you follow the steps, you reap the rewards in terms of efficiency and visibility.

Cons:

If your business is primarily B2C with a large customer list and very little operational complexity, this product may not be for you. Apprise's strengths lie in its flexibility in managing the areas of operations where things typically get murky. Think manufacturing or importing from foreign suppliers.

Frank C.

Business Supplies and Equipment

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2016

Great ERP for

Apprise is a great ERP system with a very wide footprint tailored for companies that sell into "big box" retailers. For the right company, you can use Apprise to manage: product development, forecasting, sourcing, EDI, sales orders, warehouse management, retailer chargebacks, customer allowances, financials, business intelligence, etc. While there may be other single-business-process systems that can do some of these better, you will be hard-pressed to find a packaged ERP system, for this price, that does all of these as well across the board.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

If you sell into Walmart or any other EDI-heavy retailers, the EDI Transaction Manager will be of great benefit to your organization. Apprise offers a completely hands-off approach to EDI that allows your business to focus on managing the orders, not the vast amount of technical requirements to get that order from your retailer's system. Chargeback and allowance management features make for easy management of post-sales deductions. Supplier Production Monitoring provides visibility into constantly changing production and delivery dates so that you know when the product will arrive at your distribution center.

Cons:

As with any ERP system with this wide of a footprint, implementation will depend heavily on having the right people in your organization participate in the implementation process. Your technical and business-user staff will play a big part in a successful go live. If you try to implement Apprise without the right expertise, you are setting your organization up for failure.

Solomon F.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

Old, Clunky, and Customer Support is a nightmare

Bad. So bad. We're moving on as soon as well can.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has 100+ modules that fits lots of our operations' team needs. Order management and EDI is good.

Cons:

Customer Service: We've had 3+ hours of down time twice in the past month. Very little customer support urgency. No one to talk to. So disappointing. UI: If you've seen screenshots, you'd know to stay away. Financials: No basic financials functionality (B/S, P&L, TB, A/R Aging, etc.).

Verified

Reviewer

Wholesale

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Be very wary

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great feature set and quite customizable. Has most of what you need to run a company

Cons:

CRM is hugely lacking. Company was recently acquired by Aptean and there has been a noticeable change in support/cooperation. .NET software version is not the best performancewise. Process flow is lacking quite a bit.

Sean S.

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Mostly positive experience

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For our business model, DTC, with a high number of products offered and a huge list of customers, we needed a system that would connect all of our company together. The accounting, purchasing and warehouse modules sync perfectly allowing us to manage our efficiencies and focus on the bottom line. Overall our company has greatly advanced in terms of profitability through our partnership with Apprise.

Cons:

The merchandising, product management and manufacturing processes are a bit more cumbersome than we would have expected. This is probably due to the changing focus of Apprise as they transition to a more DTC friendly system. Our hope is that the implementation of 8.0 will correct this and resolve this minor criticism of a great system.

Jeffrey S.

Verified reviewer

Wholesale

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Intial user of Apprise ERP

Because of the more modern interface we are able to push more data to the users who need to make business decisions based on information in the ERP. In the past this was something IT had to be pulled into, now we can just point the users to the information and they can do it themselves.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

WE liked the more modern interface compared to our old ERP of 15 years. The ability for users to pull data on their own and the number of functions is great. It can run across a WAN with very little latency.

Cons:

The layout and function of the software is weak. The ability to see relevant help text and lead by example is non existent. TO much is still a manual process, they should have the ability to turn a switch for many processes that should be scheduled or just plain automatic.

Steve G.

Consumer Goods

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Very good consumer products ERP

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and train people. Strong customer support. Small enough, so they know their customers and specific needs. Staff is long-term and consistent.

Cons:

Challenge to find staff who are familiar with this specific ERP and with Progress databases. Need to schedule upgrades well in advance as the team gets busy.

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