Coffee, Tea and Water Route Accounting, Direct Store Delivery
For many businesses, having a reliable supply of high quality, coffee, tea and water delivered to their locations is important to their overall business atmosphere. Often times exceptional service is the key differentiator that keeps your company in an account and keeps the competition out. That's why competing in the coffee, tea and water service business presents its own set of challenges. Customer visit schedules must be strictly adhered to. Contract prices must be negotiated and enforced at the point of delivery. All the locations from the main reception area to the employee break rooms must be properly serviced and restocked. Beverage service companies know these factors can affect the profitability of their beverage distribution business and their customer relationships.
Specifically designed for the beverage delivery industry, jLAN Mobile is a complete sales force automation and route accounting solution that empowers suppliers to improve operational efficiencies, increase profit margins and reduce costs. jLAN Mobile puts customer, product and sales information from the ERP system into the hands of your mobile workforce giving them the ability to create sales transactions, manage inventory, plan customer visit schedules and take surveys in the field. This enables your organization to achieve greater profitability by adding additional stops per delivery truck or sales per stop.
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Reduce Cost
- Easily track and replenish stock from multiple in-office locations
- Analyze costs for labor and vehicle maintenance
- Simplify day-end check-in settlement by drivers
- Eliminate or reduce data entry costs
- Increase customer satisfaction by eliminating data entry errors
- Effectively manage products with expiration dates
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Increase Sales
- Add new products and promotions quickly and easily
- Manage break rooms, reception areas and storage rooms more accurately
- Identify popular selling sku's/products customers should be selling
- Real-time visibility into on-truck inventory
- Flexible promotion structures including automatic start/end dates and price setting
- Promote minimum threshold amounts that help increase average order size
- Cross-sell suggest, add complimentary items to orders
- Handle mix & match promotions accurately
- Manage a complex array of customer specific pricing and discounts
- Access to customer purchasing history
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Improve Operations
- Simplify delivery preparations
- Manage accounts receivable activities including collections and deposits
- Real-time visibility to inventory and assets at the truck and enterprise level
- Communicate new products and promotions to mobile workforce in the field
- Eliminate paperwork, order processing times and reduce human error through automation
- Survey customers to gather competitor, shelf space or other information
- Signature capture provides proof of delivery
- Fast, complete end-of-day settlement process
- Detailed business reporting including daily route activity reports
- Track skipped customer visits and reschedule
- Track returns by customer and product
- Create and track inventory transfer requests
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