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eoStar 2009. Technology Update. Introduction. Mike Rutherford – Founder & President, Rutherford & Associates Paul Rutherford – Vice President Operations. Rutherford Values. Support Service Responsiveness Professionalism Trust. Rutherford Partnerships. Customers MillerCoors Strategic
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eoStar 2009 Technology Update
Introduction • Mike Rutherford – Founder & President, Rutherford & Associates • Paul Rutherford – Vice President Operations
Rutherford Values • Support • Service • Responsiveness • Professionalism • Trust
Rutherford Partnerships • Customers • MillerCoors Strategic • Microsoft Gold
Rutherford Timeline • Started in 1986 • 2001 – Ground up rewrite of eoStar • 2002 - Focus on MillerCoors distributors • 2003 – Comer Distributing • 2005 – Schenck Company • 2006 – JJ Taylor • 2007 – Miller Strategic Partnership • 2008 – Andrews Distributing
2009 Release Highlights • Support • Expanded support staff • Wiki • Programming • Nearly 4000 code submissions since April 2008 • New functionality • Increased performance • Groundwork for future enhancements
Additions & Enhancements • Forecasting and Purchasing • MBO • Tap Survey • Daily delivery stop analyzer • Promotions • Payment terms • Reporting • Warehouse handheld
Forecasts • Maintain separate forecasts by department • Purchasing • Sales • Accounting • Maintain separate forecasts by brand manager • Integrates to: • Miller forecast upload • Miller WOQ download • Coors POINT Upload • MBO sales goals
MBO – Management by Objectives • Four types of objectives supported so far: • Accomplishment • Display • Sales • Distribution • Auto compute and assign sales goals based on forecasts • eoMobile and eoTablet support • Tracks progress and computes compensation
Tap Surveys eoTablet
Tap Surveys (Cont.) • Track taps by location with customer account • Track competitive brands • Easy to review and audit
Delivery Stop Analyzer • Highlight routing inefficiencies • Determine cost of “Out of the way” stops • Find and fix inaccurate geo codes
Payment Terms Modifications • Unlimited number of terms per customer • Order partitioning • Supports expansion into other lines of business • Beer • NA • Wine • Etc.
Promotions • Qualified Promotions support Red Bull shelf programs in addition to other NA promotions • More visibility for future promotions in eoMobile and eoTablet
Reporting • Ion reporting upgrades • Pending orders • Keg report • Recommended order report
Warehouse handheld • Completely rewritten • Uses the web service • Saves data in process on the storage card
Other items of note • Erasure checks • Multi-warehouse support enhanced for delivery dispatcher • Laid-in cost manager • Substitutions • Warehouse assistant plugin • Enhanced security in the web service
Future Projects • WMS integration • Web ordering • Web supplier reporting • Tighter SSRS integration
SSRS Web portal • Distribution lists • Scheduled reports