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Technology Services

Ohio Valley Wholesale Distributors Inc. are wholesale tobacco and convenience store merchandise distributors doing business in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky.

Information Services

We’ve assembled a variety of information and sales support tools; all readily available 24/7. You have access to order books, order guides and product specials, pricing and availability… through our web site via your PC or a hand-held PC or through our electronic ordering tool (Customer Connect); thus providing user friendly and easier order processing. Our services include various reports, accrual tracking, product authorization lists, item ranking, custom retail pricing, customer invoice summaries  and more.

Easy Wholesale Ordering.

Direct access… all day, every day. You choose. Place your order through your wholesale sales representative, or using our Customer Portal and electronic ordering tool (Customer Connect). Or leverage the latest in technology by using our vendor managed inventory system to automate the ordering process. You can also order by Telxon or Cipher Lab machine, via fax or phone-in. It’s great to have options, so whichever method you prefer, we’re ready to make the order process fast and easy. Ask you Ohio Valley Wholesale representative for more details on all the ordering options available to you.”

Vendor Managed Inventory

We offer vendor managed inventory using our state of the art K3s inventory management system. You simply send us your inventory and our system will build your order based on scientifically proven technology that will minimize out of stocks while reducing your inventory driving greater customer satisfaction and profitability.

Business Intelligence Tools - Data View

We offer world class business intelligence tools to help identify sales trends and opportunities to increase both sales and profits for our customers. using these tools we can identify slow moving items and optimize your merchandise selection. Customers can, via our customer portal, utilize these tools to help them make more informed merchandising and strategic decisions for their operations.

C-SCAPE

This activity based costing model will accurately analyze the cost of your products, taking into account all of the “hidden” overhead costs associated with those items and show you the “true” cost of each item and it’s actual contribution (or lack of contribution) to your stores profitability. The results are truly eye opening and will give you insights into making the correct changes in product mix, space allocation and pricing to maximize your bottom line results.