PocketAdvantage™ Order Entry

PocketAdvantage™ is ideal for wine and spirit distributors. We say this because 70% of the industry sales reps use PocketAdvantage™ every day to place their wine and sprit orders. It is designed to be easy to use, reliable and efficient. The following are some of the biggest benefits your company will receive by selecting PocketAdvantage™ for your sales force.

Ease of Use
The color coded screens are very easy to follow and allow a sales person to quickly select a customer, create an order and send it to the home office for delivery. The software is designed for a person with a limited computer background. The basics of creating an order are so simple that the initial training only takes 1-2 hours. Ease of use is the number one reason wholesalers buy PocketAdvantage™ and continue to use it.

Better Customer Service
In a competitive market customer service is a key component for the long term health of your business. Here is how we can empower your sales reps to perform at a higher level.

Data at Their Fingertips:
In a competitive marketplace accurate and timely data is critical. The software includes :

• Sales History: What did the customer buy last December for the promotion or how many more cases does the customer have to buy to reach the larger discount? These answers and many more are part of the sales history for each customer. The sales reps have this information on their handheld so there is no need to carry paper reports that are quickly out of date when the handheld has real time information.
   
• Up to Date Inventories: If I order this product will it be on the truck tomorrow? This is a key customer service question. The reps who send their orders for each account will receive the most recent warehouse inventory so they will know as they place their order whether the product is in stock. You have always asked your sales people to send orders as soon as they write them, now they will have even more incentive to do it. When a sales rep sends an order a confirmation is received that shows the status.

• Order Confirmation: The shot glasses below tell the story. When the sales rep sends an order it shows how many orders were filled, partially filled or not filled. It also displays errors that can happen periodically. This instant feedback when the rep is in the store is crucial to managing a customer’s expectations
   
• Trucks that Go One Way: All the efficiencies you try to create are ruined when a product is returned because of a mistake in an order. The software warns a rep when a number being entered could be too high and we also train on how to recap the order before sending to reduce errors

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