ProfitPoint for Food Service Wholesale Distributors

Industry Challenges
Continuing to maintain a high level of customer service while keeping order lead times short, operational costs down, and employee productivity high, often seem like conflicting goals. In addition, food service wholesale distributors are burdened with managing promotions, discounts, and other special programs on behalf of their customers and/or suppliers. Supporting these programs can be complex, cumbersome, and expensive without adequate processes or automation. Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in streamlining the movement of goods, enabling top quality customer service, and providing an opportunity to reduce inventory and operating costs.

ProfitPoint Solution
ProfitPoint from TurningPoint Systems delivers end-to-end functionality to the wholesale distributor. From the time the order is placed with the manufacturer, to the time the product is received by the customer, ProfitPoint manages the movement of inventory and financial information in real-time, thus meeting the needs of the small to medium-sized distributor. Its IBM iSeries platform has been extended to incorporate emerging technologies that generate efficiencies in the warehouse and automate processes between suppliers and customers.

ProfitPoint product modules include:

• e-Warehouse Management Systems (e-WMS)
• e-Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM)
• e-Supplier Relationship Management (e-SRM)
• Route Accounting
• Financial Reporting and Analysis

ProfitPoint for the Food Service Distributor
ProfitPoint is designed to help you meet your challenges head on. With ProfitPoint, you’re able to run your business more efficiently and profitably, keeping close tabs on every phase of the operation, from sales and returns, to inventory turns and warehouse space utilization, to pricing and customer/product profitability.

Best of all, ProfitPoint is designed to handle the unique requirements of the food service wholesale distributor by automating such tough tasks as:

• Off-invoice discounts on cartons
• Broken carton and pack returns
• Detailed sales reporting
• Manufacturers rebate reporting
• Customer pricing types, including cost plus, list and list-less, specials, volume discounts, contracts, vendor discounts, and net price
• Kit and component level assembly

With ProfitPoint, you’ll know which products are moving, and what promotions are working, which customers are buying, what they are buying, and your margins. ProfitPoint provides the detailed, up-to-the- minute information and reports you need to efficiently and profitably manage inventory, fill rates, and service levels. As a fully integrated system, ProfitPoint replaces error-prone, redundant data entry tasks with a single entry that drives the entire process from order entry, through picking, shipping, and replenishment.

ProfitPoint helps customers to:

Reduce Costs

• Lower inventory
• Optimize warehouse space
• Improve sales force productivity

Improve Customer Service

• Faster, more accurate delivery of product
• Improved accuracy of financial information

Support Value-Added Services

• Price alert labels, postcards
• Retail price stickers, shelf labels