ERP Software for the Food Distribution Industry

VAI S2K Food Management Software has emerged as a leading ERP technology for today’s most competitive businesses. The S2K Enterprise for food industry gives companies the opportunity to implement long term growth strategies that ensure future success.

The software provides powerful information enhances customer service, reduce costs, and delivers significant return on investment. By putting our innovation to use, companies across the world can now create end-to-end integrated enterprise solutions.

As part of the Food software suite, we offer cutting edge inventory management and purchasing applications that equal superior efficiency for your business. VAI S2K comprehensive business software delivers consistent returns on your technology investment.

Customer Orders

VAI S2K Distribution Management Software includes an order processing application that offers complete drill-down access to customer and item information.

From this powerful module users can access stock status information across all locations, view substitutions, complementary items, and sales history and access customer shopping lists or order guides for easy ordering. All orders feed a comprehensive Route Management application that allows users to review and process deliveries by route.

• Flexible Inventory Allocations
• Suggested Retail Price (SRP) Labels
• Multiple UPC Numbers per Item
• Item Restrictions
• Private Label Items
• Import and Landed Cost Tracking
• Weekly Sales Analysis
• Order Entry Call Lists
• Load Based Discounts
• Direct Shipment Processing
• Multi-level Discounts
• Return Authorization
• Substitute Item Search
• Complementary Items Gross Profit Margin Alert

Rebates and Allowances

The S2K Customer and Vendor Rebate and Allowances tracking application maintains a real-time database to ensure the timely tracking of both customer and vendor rebates and allowances based upon sales or purchase history. The S2K Rebate and Allowances Tracking application offers the following features:

• General Ledger entries for accrued customer and vendor rebates
• Establish a single rebate program that covers multiple customers
• Entry programs to claim customer rebates, reducing the current accrual and creating an accounts receivable credit memo
• Entry programs to claim vendor rebates, reducing the current accrual and creating a credit memo to Accounts Payable or an invoice to open Accounts Receivable (bill back)
• Supports “Off-Invoice” allowances by dollar amount or percentages that do not accrue and come directly off the customer or vendor invoice

Candy, Cigarette, Tobacco, and Alcohol

• Candy, cigarette, tobacco, and alcohol Food has unique software needs. Both the federal and state governments levy excise taxes on goods such as alcohol and tobacco products. Even though federal excise taxes are geographically uniform, state excise taxes vary considerably.
• S2K Enterprise for Food provides tracking by carton, pack, and stick; tax payment and reporting to multiple state, county, and city tax jurisdictions; tax stamp tracking; off-invoice carton discounts; and broken carton and pack returns. These advanced features take the complexity and expense out of controlled substance and sales reporting.

Inventory Management

VAI S2K Inventory Management Software gives you the comprehensive features you need to effectively and efficiently handle all your food inventory processes.

With our inventory management application you have complete inventory control; you can track shipments, inventory adjustments, and receipts. Lot and Shelf Life date tracking ensure compliance with FDA Food Safety requirements.

Item inquiries provide stock status with drill down to transaction details, which improves customer service. Easy access to inventory information enables you to find extensive product data, including multiple cost factors, and full case, broken case, and catch weight information.

Advanced Food Features Include:

• Catch Weight Processing Broken Case Tracking
• Cigarette, Tobacco, and Alcohol Processing
• Rebates and Allowances
• Last, Landed, Average, Salesman, Market Cost
• Order Guides and Shopping Lists
• Bid and Promotional Pricing
• Show Order Entry and Pricing
• C-Store Remote Order Entry
• Lot and Shelf Life Date Tracking
• Product Recall Reporting
• MSA, MCAT Reporting
• Broken Case Surcharge
• Fuel Surcharge
• Rule Based Item Substitution