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VerticalSoft Food Distribution Overview
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VerticalSoft Food Distribution is the preeminent enterprise solution for the distribution industry providing unparalleled access to data to ensure rapid order processing, accurate inventory control and robust marketing and pricing calculations all in one unified solution. VerticalSoft Food Distribution provides the following functionality:

VerticalSoft Food Distribution Features & Functionality

Highlighted Features:

Finance
Fixed Assets
Sales
Relationship Management
Purchasing
Inventory Control
Warehouse Management
Web/E-Commerce
Distribution Planning
Enhanced Sales
Container Tracking
Automated Data Capture
Rebates etc.


Finance
The finance features make it easy to access information needed to spot trends and gain insight into business activities. Capitalize on the knowledge of how your business works by discovering opportunities that otherwise might have been difficult to spot. The VerticalSoft Product Suite offers much more than accounting tools. The software helps you understand what figures represent and makes it easier to see the activities where figures originated from.

Fully integrated with other application areas
Flow fields and lookup buttons
Easy-to-maintain Chart of Accounts
Flexible accounting periods
"NAVIGATE" function to locate all entries related to the same posting
Transaction traceability
Security and business rules
General journal templates
Budgets
Account Schedules - built-in reporting
Consolidation
Flexible dimensions
Budget by dimension
Analysis views
Foreign trade and multicurrency management
Additional reporting currency
Euro conversion tool
Fixed Assets
Bank Account Management

Fixed Assets
On-hand availability look ups and extensive item query
Set up discounts for specific combinations of customers and inventory
Every item and customer can have unique discount combinations
Unlimited alternate ship-to addresses for each customer
Select deliver-to addresses on the fly
Copy details from posted or unposted orders, shipments, or invoices
Reserve inventory items online when you place the order
Manage credit information from one screen, including open orders, aged receivables, and prior comments
Store all details of posted invoices and credit memos

Sales
Order management is a full-featured order-entry system that automates the entire sales process, including quotes, blanket orders, sales orders, shipments and back orders.

Enjoy on-hand availability look ups and extensive item query
Set up discounts for specific combinations of customers and inventory
Every item and customer can have unique discount combinations
Provide unlimited alternate ship-to addresses for each customer
Select deliver-to addresses on the fly
Copy details from posted or unposted orders, shipments, or invoices
Reserve inventory items online when you place the order
Manage credit information from one screen, including open orders, aged receivables, and prior comments
Store all details of posted invoices and credit memos

Relationship Management
The more information you know about your business relationships, the smarter your decisions. Tight integration between VerticalSoft Software front-office solutions and business-finance management solutions means precise information is always available, making everyone in the company a customer expert. It has:

Contact management
Task management
Contact classification
Campaign management
Document management and interaction log

Purchasing
Purchase and Payables allows complete control of finances through tracking and managing detailed information about vendors and detailed records of every purchase. Also offered are efficient features for managing payments to vendors and for reordering.

Automate the entire purchasing process
Optional purchase requisition system
Reorder inventory automatically
Link purchase with specific sales order
Ship items directly to the customer from the vendor
Approved vendor list for inventory items

Inventory Control
Purchase and Payables allows complete control of finances through tracking and managing detailed information about vendors and detailed records of every purchase. Also offered are efficient features for managing payments to vendors and for reordering.

Automate the entire purchasing process
Have optional purchase requisition system
Reorder inventory automatically
Link purchase with specific sales order
Ship items directly to the customer from the vendor
Have an approved vendor list for inventory items

Warehouse Management
This application area organizes the receipt, put-away, assigning, picking and shipping of items to and from each warehouse. The flow of an item through the warehouse is described by the activities performed on the item.

Shipping and receiving
Bar code transactions
Efficient picking and put away features
Pallet tracking
Multiple locations planning

Web/E-Commerce
The internet provides a powerful new platform for collaborative commerce. A company's supply chain can be strengthened and become more efficient with Web/E-Commerce. Collaborative solutions offered today only list product offerings. They don't take advantage of the full potential to streamline commercial interactions, giving supply chain partners access to real-time information and self-service.

Distribution Planning
Fast and easy route assignment. Expedite truck loading and improves efficiency. Routes are automatically built from customer route matrices. Stop sequence displays on screen with easy reassignment.

Enhanced Sales
VerticalSoft's enhanced sales granule optimizes multi-faceted sales operations: contract pricing, customer pricing, commodity market pricing, promotional discounts, quantity break discounts, multiple selling/pricing units of measure, off-invoice allowances, unlimited price levels, suggested retail price, customer authorization codes, future price lists, and recalculation of selling price based on a changed cost.

Container Tracking
Container tracking provides a facility to track both consumable and returnable containers. All containers can be serialized and traced: drums, totes, railcars etc. Status of containers can be viewed onsite, indicating empty or packed including contents. On-Site and Off-Site inventory is available at any time. Weight and capacity information is captured allowing each container to be valued and stored by actual weight. Container history is readily available to facilitate the return process. Items can be packed in unlimited container types. Customers can then specify how items are packed at the time of sales order entry. Lot information can be tied to one or many containers, providing the capability of lot and sub-lot tracking.

Automated Data Capture
VerticalSoft's automated data capture and bar code solutions enable complete control over the supply chain: raw material receipt, intermediate and finished product movement, customer requirements, destinations, catch weight, bill of lading, invoicing and distribution.

Rebates etc.
Customer/Vendor Rebates predefine a variety of rebates that "earn from" or "pay to" other entities based on purchase or sales transactions. Rebates earned from vendors, vendor off-invoice discounts, rebates paid to customers, salesmen's spiffs, etc. Once a rebate is defined, the Customer/Vendor Rebates module monitors purchasing and order processing transactions, looking for transactions that qualify to earn a rebate. When a qualifying transaction is monitored, the rebate system calculates the rebate amount, builds a sub-ledger of rebates earned, posts accounts receivable and accounts payable and makes corresponding entries in the general ledger. The rebate module is also used to accrue complex commissions where the commission parameters vary down to the customer/product level.