Snack and Candy Route Accounting, Direct Store Delivery
In today's competitive economy, snack and candy distributors face a variety of challenges including continual pressure on margins, increased demand for better customer service, and competition for private-label brands. From quicker delivery times to better pricing and greater product selection, the snack food market continues to evolve and customers are demanding more from their suppliers. In concert, costs for fuel and raw materials are also increasing, making cost containment crucial to long-term business success.
Designed to solve these challenges, jLAN Mobile is a complete sales force automation software and route accounting solution for the Snack and Candy industry. 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 monitoring costs while adding additional stops per delivery truck or sales per stop.
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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
- Increase customer satisfaction by eliminating data entry errors
- Effectively manage products with expiration dates
- Eliminate or reduce data entry costs
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Increase Sales
- Add new products and promotions quickly and easily
- Manage shelf space more accurately
- Manage multiple in-store point of sales
- 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
- 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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