Food Service Route Accounting, Direct Store Delivery
As the economy continues to recover, issues like the rising cost of food, consumables and fuel continue to place added pressure on the profit margins of food service distributors. Many food service distributors are looking for new and innovative ways to reduce costs and maintain customer pricing levels to create a competitive advantage that will enable them to increase market share. As a result, many organizations are implementing state-of-the-art route accounting solutions to improve operational efficiencies, increase profit margins and contain costs.
jLAN offers a Windows Tablet and Notebook Edition specifically designed for Food Service sales reps. jLAN Mobile for Laptops provides sales reps with real-time visibility to data points necessary to close an order. jLAN's powerful Order Guide functionally displays detailed account information such as historical item purchases, current and last margins, multiple cost fields, par values, contract pricing, catch weight conversions and various other data points that empower sales reps to stay competitive.
Whether you have a single route or hundreds of routes daily, jLAN Mobile is scalable to handle the needs of food service distribution companies that service small independent restaurants or large chains with multiple locations. With jLAN Mobile, you are able to place an order, send it in and it is staged for delivery the next day. 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 food service distributors to reduce costs, improve customer service and achieve greater profitability by adding additional stops per delivery truck or sales per stop. jLAN Mobile is ideal for food service distributors that service high volume environments such as hospitals, restaurants, cruise ships, hotels, casinos, schools and more.
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Reduce Cost
- Manage in-customer 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 shelf space more accurately
- Identify popular selling sku's/products customers should be selling
- Real-time visibility into 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
- 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 verification and product images
- 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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