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ADS Solutions Accolent ERP is Cloud-based software designed for wholesalers and optimized to meet the needs of food and beverage distributors. ADS Solutions (https://www.adssolutions.com) is a leading provider of ERP software to small and medium sized wholesale distributors across multiple industries. Contact ADS Solutions to arrange a demo of Accolent ERP software that runs end-to-end in the AWS public Cloud. <br><br>Read more@ https://www.adssolutions.com/industries/food-and-beverage-distribution-software/<br>

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  1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE TO CLOUD-BASED 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . adssolutions.com WHITEPAPER

  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR WHAT’S INSIDE DISTRIBUTION 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE SOFTWARE Introduction 1. Improve Efficiency and Profit 2. React to Trends 3. Price Strategically 4. Keep Your Customers Coming Back 5. Compare Results 6. Move Your Business to the Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. Data Security and Disaster Preparedness WHITEPAPER

  3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE INTRODUCTION You operate in a rapidly changing environment with tight margins. There are new market entrants, aggressive competitor strategies, and other developments that you must keep up with and adapt to. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Generic accounting and inventory software can’t help you get ahead. Distributors need modern software designed from the bottom-up, just for distributors. WHITEPAPER

  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AVOID HIDDEN COSTS AND DRAINS ON PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVE EFFICIENCY AND PROFIT There are huge hidden costs of running older, less efficient software systems. Outdated software leads to unnecessary, wasted time. It's a productivity black hole that can become very expensive to maintain. 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE Accolent ERP is a modern software system that draws on 30+ years of meeting distributors’ functional needs. Accolent can greatly improve your business’s operational efficiency:  Speed up your day-to-day work flows and boost employee productivity  Eliminate duplicate entries and spreadsheets with one, integrated system and data source  Modernize with accessible, device- agnostic software, built to be safe and secure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WHITEPAPER

  5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GAIN ACCESS TO ALL YOUR DATA. IMMEDIATELY TO SPOT TRENDS AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS NEEDED. 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE Your software should help you to react to trends. For that, you need access to all your data, all the time. You also need analytics tools that help managers and executives make better decisions:  Drill down on any transaction to reveal underlying data  Examine various views of your data with multiple reports  Filter, sort, and export all report data to Excel  Use BI to identify and take action on trends REACT TO TRENDS GET REAL-TIME DATA FROM A SINGLE DATA SOURCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WHITEPAPER

  6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAXIMIZE PRICING BY USING COMPLEX BUT EASY-TO-USE PRICING MATRICES PRICE STRATEGICALLY 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE Wholesale distribution is a customer service and pricing- driven business. Your business thrives by understanding your customer and optimizing your pricing. Your software must facilitate not hinder your pricing strategies. Accolent ERP has a long history of serving distributors’ most complex pricing needs: Unlimited Contracts per customer Advertised Pricing with dates of promotion Special Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantity Breaks Matrix Pricing, and more Extensive tools to easily maintain pricing WHITEPAPER

  7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS COMING BACK 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE Customers have many choices of who to buy from. A successful business needs to keep its customers satisfied and coming back. To do this, you need software that gives your customer service people immediate access to data, allowing them to respond to inquiries quickly and accurately. Some of your customers will want access to a self-service on-line portal. Accolent ERP gives you all these tools to provide phenomenal customer service:  Lookup the status of customers’ quotes, orders, shipments and invoices  Quickly see open AR and payments on customers’ accounts  Provide wholesale customers with e-commerce access to ask for quotes, place orders, check on orders status, pay invoices and more IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INCREASE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WHITEPAPER

  8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . There have been many studies from organizations such as Gartner, IDC, and others that have shown that by switching off legacy software to modern software designed specifically for a distribution business, you can greatly improve performance and profitability. Modern software like Accolent ERP can help you show improvement in a number of important areas. COMPARE RESULTS 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE INVENTORY PRODUCTIVITY CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Legacy 83% Legacy 83% Modern ERP Software 95% 94% Modern ERP Software AR MANAGEMENT/COLLECTION FINANCIAL REPORT ACCURACY Legacy 75% Legacy 88% Modern ERP Software 94% Modern ERP Software 96% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RESPONSIVENESS TO MARKET CHANGES Legacy 68% Modern ERP Software 97% WHITEPAPER

  9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MOVE YOUR BUSINESS TO THE CLOUD CLOUD SOFTWARE REQUIRES LESS INVESTMENT AND IS FAR MORE SECURE 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE The Cloud is continuing to take market share. IDC predicts that almost half of the worldwide ERP market will be in the Cloud by the end of 2019, and the growth of on- premise systems is dwarfed by the growth of public Cloud systems.* Accolent ERP is one of few native web applications that run completely in the public Amazon Web Services Cloud. Accolent running in the AWS Cloud allows your business to:  Access Accolent Distribution Software from anywhere, anytime, using any device that can run a web browser  Eliminate the complexity of managing your own IT network  Easily scale up your server/database needs automatically  Take advantage of the financial benefits of a subscription model, freeing up capital to invest in your business  Benefit from AWS economies of scale that private data centers and on-premises systems cannot match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Source: IDC Worldwide Enterprise Resource Management Applications, September 2015 WHITEPAPER

  10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ransomware is everywhere today. Don’t let your business get infected by a virus or other malware that can cost you millions of dollars, cause you to lose sales, create liability for lost customer information, damage customer confidence in your business, and set you back months. DATA SECURITY AND DISTASTER PREPAREDNESS Accolent ERP runs end-to-end in Amazon Web Services Cloud, the market-leading Cloud platform. AWS offers the most secure environment that you can create - far exceeding the security of private data centers or on- premises systems. Even the Pentagon recently announced a plan to move its most secure data to the public Cloud. Make sure your software has: 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE SECURITY IS KEY Cloud firewalls intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, and threat management automatic backup snapshots allowing easy system data recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . backup data storage on S3, if desired data redundancy on multiple servers in multiple geographies for disaster preparedness WHITEPAPER

  11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accolent ERP software is optimized for and used by distributors across many industries (food, restaurant equipment and supplies, specialty tools, industrial products, plumbing supplies, janitorial, paper, chemical supplies, electrical components, electronics, and more). WHY ACCOLENT ERP? 7 REASONS TO UPGRADE YOUR DISTRIBUTION SOFTWARE Business across the country rely upon Accolent ERP software to control inventory, purchasing, customer service, online ordering, accounting, and fulfillment from their warehouses. Accolent ERP is a leading, natively Cloud-based software solution that uniquely delivers features optimized for small and medium-sized wholesale distributors and light Accolent ERP software supports flexible multi-level pricing, selling and purchasing in multiple units of measure, catch weights, bar coding, credit card processing, rentals and recurring billing, special orders, drop ships, and more — all designed to simplify complex tasks common to distributors and light manufacturers. manufacturers. Accolent ERP is developed by ADS Solutions® which has been creating software for small and medium-sized wholesalers and distributors for over 30 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Our e-commerce modules allow businesses to create an online customer portal and an online stores. www.adssolutions.com WHITEPAPER

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