Wholesale Finance Transformation by Percipere
Our customers report making decisions on data that is 12–15 days old and missing rebates, deductions, and landed costs. Elevate for Wholesale fixes that — in 20 weeks.
Six problems we solve for wholesale businesses
Whether you lead finance, operations, or IT — wholesale distribution creates the same pressure from different angles.
Find your problem and we’ll show you exactly how we’ve solved it.
“Why did it take us 13 days to close last month?”
Finance teams in wholesale spend 12–15 days reconciling intercompany positions, chasing warehouse discrepancies, and consolidating data from disconnected systems. One week of that is GL and sub-ledger reconciliation alone. The close is slow because the data isn’t in one place.
“I know we’ve lost money on promotions. I just can’t prove how much.”
When rebates, promotional funding, and volume tiers live in spreadsheets rather than your ERP, your reported margin is always incomplete. Every commercial decision made during the period is based on data that only becomes accurate at period close — by which point it’s too late.
“Rebate reconciliation is three people with spreadsheets. It’s a mess.”
Purchase price discrepancies, supplier overcharges, unrecovered deductions — when managed manually, money leaks quietly and continuously. There is no structured process to catch it, track it, or recover it at scale. The team knows it’s happening. They just can’t stop it.
“Our warehouse is running well. Finance can’t see any of it.”
When operations and finance run on different systems, the CFO works with yesterday’s data. Inventory values in the ledger don’t match the warehouse floor. Order books are invisible. Product-level margin reporting doesn’t exist. Every financial decision is made on incomplete operational data.
“We’re still picking from paper. I know there’s a better way.”
Paper-based picking creates errors at the point of pickup, limits throughput, and makes accurate stock counts impossible. Labour cost per pick rises every year. The result is a warehouse that cannot scale without adding headcount — and still produces customer complaints, returns, and invisible margin erosion.
“We’ve outgrown our system. How do I build the business case to replace it?”
Legacy ERP creates technical debt, integration cost, and operational blind spots — but the business case for replacement requires data your current system can’t produce. Process mining surfaces the evidence: hidden inefficiencies, actual process costs, and quantified benefits, before you commit to anything.
“Inventory leaves the factory. By the time it reaches our trade counters, it’s disappeared”
When factory output and regional distribution run on separate systems, stock disappears into the gap. Goods leave the factory but never arrive in the ledger. The result is phantom inventory, blind replenishment, and a finance team reconciling numbers that were never connected.
Sound familiar? Book a 60-minute modernisation assessment and we will map exactly where your margin is being lost.
Elevate for Wholesale by Percipere
What Elevate for Wholesale includes
A SAP-qualified, partner-packaged ERP solution built specifically for UK wholesale distributors and FMCG organisations. Everything needed to unify finance, operations, and analytics — with the commercial complexity of wholesale built in from day one.
PerciClaim
Integrates every rebate tier and promotional arrangement into SAP. Every price anomaly triggers automatic recovery — money comes back, not just gets flagged.
PerciBuy
Alerts buyers to discount thresholds at point of purchase — every eligible discount captured before the order is placed. Buying discipline built into the system.
FUTUROOT
Analyses 100% of your ERP transaction data to surface process deviations causing margin erosion — procurement leakage, inventory blind spots, compliance gaps.
PerciScan
Connects the warehouse floor directly to SAP — scan-guided picking, live inventory, and finance seeing what operations sees simultaneously.
PerciBot
Natural language analytics on top of SAP. Ask a question, get an answer instantly — no report request, no waiting for IT, no manual data pull.
PerciXpert
AI-powered implementation intelligence — requirements traced, legacy extracted, scope documented from day one. The reason our projects don’t overrun.
Results in numbers
customer outcomes
Wholesale leaders who made the same decision
Three organisations. Different starting points. The same result: complete visibility, accurate data, and operations that finally connect.
agro industrial
Leading Agro-Industrial Group
SAP S/4HANA migration & finance transformation
- 15→7 company codes consolidated — intercompany reconciliation complexity halved
- 25 master data objects cleansed — duplicate-free, audit-ready
- 35+ Finance and operational improvements delivered across a complex multi-entity enterprise
PE-BACKED MANUFACTURER
OS Doors
Finance & operations · SAP S/4HANA
- £1.2M order book visible to CFO in real time — gap between orders and invoicing identified and closed
- First product-level margin reporting ever achieved — across 1M+ unique SKUs
- Real-time inventory values — month-end no longer dependent on manual stock counts
Food distribution
Leading UK Food Distributor
Rebate Management and financial compliance
- 100% of contracts migrated onto SAP — 30% were previously untracked and processed entirely manually
- 1 week finance manpower saved monthly from automated GL reconciliation
- 40+ previously unknown operational risk scenarios identified by FUTUROOT
What happens when you engage us
How an Elevate for Wholesale engagement works
step 1
Modernisation Assessment
A focused session with our wholesale specialists. We map your current operations, identify your blind spots, and show you what Elevate for Wholesale looks like for your business — not a generic demo.
step 2
Fixed-Price Proposal
We define the full scope, price, and go-live date before you commit to anything. PerciExpert traces every requirement from day one. No surprises, no scope drift, no change request culture.
Step 3
Go Live in 20 Weeks
From kick-off to hypercare, Percipere owns the delivery. Your team goes live on SAP S/4HANA Cloud — real margin visibility, automated rebate management, and a close cycle measured in days.
Take the next step
Book a modernisation assessment
for your business.
A focused session with our wholesale finance specialists. We will map your current close cycle, identify where your margin is being lost, and show you exactly what Elevate for Wholesale looks like for your business — scope, timeline, and cost before you commit to anything.