Providing enterprise solutions to the food service industry since 1978, VAI's extensive family of applications is tightly integrated to provide one comprehensive system for customer service, inventory, manufacturing, route accounting, finance, and warehouse logistics management. For food processors, VAI's integrated suite of manufacturing applications also tracks work in process and packaged and/or assembled food products throughout the shop floor. S2K Enterprise Edition for Food's powerful technology can dramatically improve profitability at even the largest, most complex organizations.
You make the call! Which is easier:
Increasing sales OR decreasing operating costs
Both have a major impact on the bottom line -- end result is to increase sales while keeping expense growth down to a proportionate degree. Please review this table:
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Process |
How to Help with
Integrated Modules |
Return on Investment |
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inefficiencies managing paper pick tickets |
Warehouse Management RF or Voice Picking |
Decrease Costs |
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management of orders delivered same day |
Truck Routing Dashboard |
Decrease Costs |
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route accounting errors |
Integrated Route Accounting |
Decrease Costs |
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rebates, vendor allowance, and bill-back tracking |
Automated Reports / Collection |
Decrease Costs |
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bid contracts and special pricing tracking |
Integrated Bids Contracts and Special Pricing |
Decrease Costs |
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truck load inefficiencies |
Load Management Dashboard with optional UPS Roadnet |
Decrease Costs |
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lot tracking and shelf life requirements |
Lot Tracking Visibility |
Decrease Costs |
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reduce credit memos |
Order Verification and
Pricing Matrices |
Decrease Costs |
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work in process /
assembled items |
Integrated Manufacturing |
Decrease Costs |
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reps don’t have information while in front of the customer to answer questions |
Route Sales Force Automation / iPhone |
Increase Sales |
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fast moving inventory balance to meet orders |
Advanced Inventory Control |
Increase Sales |
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ebusiness orders manually entered |
eBusiness Storefront |
Increase Sales |
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need more lines on every invoice |
Order Guide |
Increase Sales |
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refusing special orders due to handling constraints |
Customer Order tied to Purchase Order |
Increase Sales |
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slow movers that competitors don’t carry to increase margins |
Auto Calculate Ranking |
Increase Sales |
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difficult to manage market cost pricing |
Automated Price Updates |
Increase Sales |
Many of these both decrease costs and increase sales. You make the call.
Together, let’s look at whether VAI S2K integrated food specific ERP system can positively influence your bottom line by increasing efficiencies, thus reducing costs. We can run your numbers through an ROI calculator – to schedule or further discuss please Contact Us – put a software professional on your team.
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