Technology that keeps products moving
Distribution is a numbers game. High transaction volumes, tight margins, and the need for real-time visibility across your entire operation. Your IT infrastructure needs to handle the pace while giving you the insights to make better decisions.
Most managed IT providers can install Microsoft 365 and keep the email running. We configure IT around the way distribution actually works: warehouse management talking cleanly to your ERP, EDI links to suppliers and customers that do not silently fail, scanners that stay connected across the whole floor, and the security and backup that keep a high-volume operation trading when something goes wrong.
A broken feed should be caught by us, not by an angry customer.
The rules NZ distribution businesses work under
Distribution is not a heavily licensed sector, but a handful of genuine obligations shape almost every IT decision.
- Privacy Act 2020. Distributors hold plenty of personal information, customer accounts, delivery contacts, driver and staff records, and account-payable details. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner expects notification of a notifiable privacy breach without undue delay, which makes access control, encrypted backup, and a workable breach-response plan part of normal operations.
- PCI DSS. Wherever you take card payments, on a trade counter, over the phone, or through a B2B portal, card data must be segmented away from the rest of your network and kept off general-purpose systems. We scope networks so payment flows sit behind appropriate controls.
- Data integrity and availability. Distribution runs on the accuracy of inventory, pricing, and order data, and on systems that stay up during dispatch windows. These are commercial obligations to your trading partners, often written into supply agreements and EDI trading-partner requirements.
The tools NZ distributors use, and what we do with each
We are platform-agnostic but practical. The systems we deploy and manage are the ones most operations and finance managers will already recognise.
- ERP and inventory, the platform your business runs on, kept patched, backed up, and integrated.
- Warehouse management (WMS), integrated with your ERP so stock, picks, and dispatches stay in step.
- EDI and trading-partner integration, reliable, monitored EDI and API connections with suppliers and customers.
- Scanning and mobility, barcode scanners, rugged handhelds, and mobile devices with management and reliable industrial wireless coverage.
- Microsoft 365, with conditional access, multi-factor authentication, and Defender tuned for distribution use.
- Reporting and business intelligence, dashboards over your operational data so the numbers come from one trusted source.
- Connectivity and networking, resilient links between warehouses, depots, and offices, with failover where downtime is not an option.
We are not selling you any of these. We make sure the systems you have chosen work properly together. If a decision is genuinely complex, such as an ERP migration, a WMS rollout, or a multi-site network redesign, we run a structured assessment before recommending anything.
