Solutions for Food Distributors

As a distributor of foods, you face unique industry challenges. Stringent industry compliance requirements for tracking and reporting. Changing and difficult to serve retail markets. Complex industry pricing and promotional scenarios. Increased demand for flexibility. And more. All of which increase your costs and drive business complexity. Apprise® Distribution Solutions for Food Distributors provide you with the comprehensive tools you need to streamline your operations and enhance your business performance – enabling you to meet customer needs and regulatory compliance requirements while maximizing revenues, reducing costs and improving profitability.

Key Benefits

In addition to the benefits provided by the comprehensive ERP and supply chain management solutions offered within Apprise Distribution, food distributors receive additional industry specific benefits, including

• Lot management for sales, returns, recalls and expiration dates – providing complete product visibility from supplier to customer
• Purchasing, receiving, inventory management and sales by catch weight, enabling proper translation from units to weight for supplier payment and customer billing
• COOL labeling, lot tracking and reporting to meet the requirements of the FDA Bioterrorism Act of 2002
• Sophisticated pricing, discounting and incentive program capabilities based on customer, product, price books/classes/families, region, volume and more
• Drop shipping, retail labeling, UPC code and EDI support to meet large retail customer compliance requirements, as well as chargeback management tools to minimize deductions
• Integrated RFID data management to meet current and evolving compliance requirements and to leverage future technology capabilities for product tracking and safety
• Comprehensive demand planning tools with integrated lead-times, sales trends, seasonality, point-of-sale, customer input and more for improved forecasting accuracy and product availability
• Inventory prioritization and allocation to maximize revenue opportunities by allocating and prioritizing limited inventories by customer and/or sales representative
• Robust information systems with real-time visibility and drill-down access into business performance drivers to help you make better, more informed decisions
• Full integration across all of your operations and locations to streamline and gain improved efficiencies in all aspects of your business
• And much more!