Folsom, Calif. - May 16, 2011 - Sparta Consulting (a KPIT Cummins company) today announced the launch of WholesaleEDGE, a qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solution designed specifically to meet the needs, and improve the performance of mid-size wholesale distribution companies.

WholesaleEDGE optimizes processes for wholesale distributors across financials, logistics, warehousing and sales, by delivering upon the robustness and flexibility of the SAP application, combined with Sparta's built-in industry best practices and methodologies. Fully deployable in as little as 11-weeks, either on-premise or in the cloud, WholesaleEDGE provides customers with a pre-packaged, scalable and easy-to-manage enterprise software solution to improve business processes.

SAP Business All-in-One partner solutions are qualified by SAP and developed, sold and supported by SAP channel partners as a defined-scope implementation with consulting services. The partner solutions offer the flexibility to accommodate unique business needs of each customer. Qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solutions are preconfigured, industry-specific versions of the SAP ERP application combined with SAP Best Practices offerings, enabling streamlined operations, lower costs and a proven path to growth.

With WholesaleEDGE, companies can simplify wholesale distribution ERP system implementations and achieve operational efficiencies that reduce costs and improve margins across all touch points of the business. WholesaleEDGE provides a truly holistic landscape for optimizing processes across a wholesale distribution operators logistics, sales order processing, customer management, financials and cost-recovery efforts.

???By working with SAP, we have successfully enhanced our wholesale distribution solution for the midsize organization built on SAP's mature suite of applications," said Prashant Jain, senior vice president, Sparta Consulting. "By deploying WholesaleEdge, customers can leverage our pre-configured ERP offering, which now includes an industry-specific business intelligence solution, to enable real-time, data-driven making through role-based dashboards for sales order processing, purchasing, returns, financials, services and more."

About Sparta Consulting Sparta Consulting, a KPIT Cummins company, delivers SAP solutions, services, and packaged applications that enable pervasive business transformation for growth-oriented organizations across the industries of automotive, high tech, manufacturing, utilities, wholesale distribution, and beyond. Within a combined 6,500+ employee base of KPIT Cummins, more than 1,200 are dedicated to the practice in support of SAP software. Sparta leverages four global development centers, world-class delivery consultants, and productized services to deliver maximum value to the business at unprecedented speeds and cost savings for our clients. Visit www.spartaconsulting.com for more information.


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