Beverage Route Accounting, Direct Store Delivery
From delivery and money collection to reconciliation, beverage distributors face a variety of challenges unique to their industry. As a leading provider of route accounting and mobile sales solutions for beverage wholesalers and distributors, jLAN Technologies empowers your mobile work force to increase sales, reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Regardless of your sales model, call-in orders to a desk, direct store delivery (DSD), presales, or a combination of all three, jLAN Mobile empowers your route sales team to better service clients. With jLAN Mobile, customers can configure individual mobile devices for pre-sell orders, direct invoicing, quotes, delivery confirmation or mix mode purposes. Our solutions ensure that customers get the products they want, at the time and place they need them.
jLAN Mobile offers both a tablet or Windows mobile device form factor. jLAN Mobile Tablet edition is the ideal form factor for pre-sales activities. Its larger screen size provides on-the-spot access to order history and past buying patterns, allowing sales people to intelligently advise customers to create a greater profit opportunity. Anticipating future orders will prevent stock outs and increase customer satisfaction. With jLAN Mobile Surveys, you will have accurate and up-to-date information on in-store merchandising activities, customer feedback and other data needed to properly service beverage customers. This enables your organization to add product lines, grow and nourish new accounts, control costs and maximize shrinking profit margins.
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Reduce Cost
- Manage in-customer locations
- Simplify day-end check-in settlement by drivers
- Analyze costs for labor and vehicle maintenance
- Eliminate or reduce data entry costs
- Effectively manage products with expiration dates
- Increase customer satisfaction by eliminating data entry errors
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Increase Sales
- Manage shelf space more accurately
- Handle mix & match promotions accurately
- Flexible promotion structures including automatic start/end dates and price settings
- Promote minimum threshold amounts that help to increase average order size
- Manage a complex array of customer specific pricing and discounts
- Access to customer purchasing history
- Add new products and promotions quickly and easily
- Identify popular sku's/products customers should be selling
- Real-time visibility into on-truck inventory
- Cross-sell suggest, add complimentary items to orders
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Improve Operations
- Survey customers to gather competitor, shelf space or other information
- Signature capture provides proof of delivery
- Signature retrieval on ERP
- Fast, complete end-of-day settlement process
- Track skipped customer visits and reschedule
- Track returns by customer and product
- Create and track inventory transfer requests
- 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
- Detailed business reporting including daily route activity reports
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