We support all types of bakeries with AFS Bakers Dozen.
KEY FEATURES/FUNCTIONS
AFS has been providing leading solutions to the food and beverage industry for over three decades.  To ensure you realize efficiencies and competitive edge in your respective marketplaces, we have incorporated our experience and best practices into a robust set of capabilities, including:
• Real-time, tightly integrated General Ledger with clear audit trails within the subsidiary ledger to identify the original transaction
• Buyer and Vendor dashboards that relate actionable data to allow for accurate buying
• Extensive Pricing and Costing set up to allow for complex models
• Robust deal management and tracking to ensure prompt deal income recognition for regular sales and food shows
• Strong collaboration tools for customer connectivity, such as integration with AFS Data Exchange, our full-service EDI solution
• Standard reporting that can be refined by multiple sorting and grouping criteria and easily exported
• Accessible database for ad-hoc reporting writing and query building
Deep Data Analytics Specific to ERP
AFS G2 is a data analytics solution that integrates into AFS ERP to help you with inventory, sales, company performance, customers, products, and vendors. The solution offers a variety of analytics, such as spend management and profitability; dashboards tailored to specific roles to monitor the health of the business; and Management by Exception, which enables you to set guardrails that will execute a prescribed action when an exception occurs.
The analytics can be leveraged for near real-time management as well as standard weekly/monthly/quarterly reviews. You can also use the data analytics solution to:
• Reduce DSO by identifying open orders before they are fulfilled for customers that are beyond their time/amount threshold
• Closely manage the gross margin by monitoring variances in timescale that lets you quickly take corrective actions
• Identify trends related to product margins reduction and potential areas to investigate or address issues
• Monitor the overall health of sales to identify any changes
• Review profitability by customers, products, vendors
• Identify products that have the best or worst margin growth
• Measure company performance at different levels of management
BENEFITS
ERP systems are designed to deliver efficient processes by automating mundane and complex tasks while also driving improved business performance though better decision making and the deployment of actionable insights. With its focus on the food and beverage industry, AFS ERP is purpose-built to drive results across many key metrics:
• Increased deal revenue with tools to capture and process deal monies while also complying with vendor requirements
• Lower total cost of ownership with a common platform
• Improved compliance to assure that industry specific regulations are being followed and documented
• Enhanced traceability with robust product information management
• Reduced DSO at the customer level with comprehensive reporting and analytics
• Increased labor productivity with time-saving features such as the drill down in general ledgers, easy-to-create dashboards and more
• Increase productivity and customer service with Event Messaging and Job Scheduling
COMPREHENSIVE SOFTWARE SUITE FOR FOOD & BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTORS
AFS ERP is the enterprise foundation extending into a comprehensive software suite focused on supporting food and beverage distributors and processors by:
• Delivering improved enterprise performance, analytics, planning and transactions with AFS ERP
• Driving efficiencies into the warehouse with AFS Warehouse Management System
• Enhancing the sales organization with AFS Order Management
• Demonstrating proof of delivery and credit management with AFS Direct Store Delivery
• Analyzing data with AFS G2