Food Distribution Software Featuring Remote Orders, Paperless Warehousing and More

Whether you are a broadline distributor serving food service and local retailers, or a distributor importing product for national retailers, or even a food broker who manages inventory; the challenges are the same. Your business operates on razor thin margins with added pressures of managing freight costs, rebate programs and, inventory turns. Having the right food distribution software literally keeps your business moving – ensuring the correct inventory levels that maximize cash flows and profitability, enabling remote customer service rep ordering, managing food safety compliance across your supply chain, automating warehousing, and other high-priority goals.

Food Distributor Software Functionality

The right business software, such as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, will enable your food distribution operations to achieve:

• Accurate inventory management and visibility.
• Forecast accuracy using your sales and buying history.
• Smart buying through the purchase planning engine.
• Vendor performance management including lates, shorts, or quality issues.
• Logistics management through routes planning; managing your own truck fleets as well as for third-party logistics providers.
• Full lot traceability including product recalls and integrated quality audits, to meet customer and food safety requirements.
• Complete pricing management including contract pricing, start and end dates, quantity penalties, and more.
• Integrated warehouse management including support for RF handheld devices and barcode scanning.
• Cost visibility to show actual costs, and overhead costs plus markup, tie landed costs plus buying costs back to individual products.
• Web-based order taking for real time order taking (device-agnostic).