| |  | | for shelf-stable, packaged and fresh food product companies | |  Field management and business intelligence Automating field operations provides head office with immediate access to field data, shortening the information cycle. Quality information can be captured cost-effectively and analyzed to generate relevant, up-to-date reports. With Quofore Management Suite managers can identify issues regarding problems in food lines, such as freshness that may be caused by a supply chain glitch or lack of turn on the shelf. As managers are alerted to problems as they occur the right actions can be taken quickly to reduce lost sales and minimize out of stocks. Using Quofore “off the shelf” reports, managers can gain insights into trends relating to out of stocks, quality issues and more. With data continuously feed back to head office from the field, mangers and decision makers have the ability to see the reality of each activity and fine-tune and correct for optimum results. | | | Quofore Solutions can accommodate multiple go-to-market strategies for companies in the food industry. These can include sales channels like grocery, route trade and foodservice as well as delivery options such as direct store delivery, delivery via warehouses, on-behalf ordering/delivery and franchisee operations. As a result the needs of management, planners, and field representatives are addressed, resulting in increased field force effectiveness and excellence in retail execution. Optimizing field force performance in all food industry channels Quofore delivers solutions that dramatically enhance the effectiveness of field execution, raise the bar for customer service in the field, and provide field management with a clear and immediate view of their company’s field activity. By ‘institutionalizing’ field processes, companies can focus their attention on strategic business benefits – improving customer service, growing revenue, containing costs and gaining competitive advantage. Quofore applications provide comprehensive functionality to optimize retail execution, including: - promotional compliance
- journey planning
- planograms
- distribution checking
- turn-in and direct ordering
- surveys
- sales analysis
- historical information
- digital image capture in-field
- competitor intelligence
- activity management
(objectives/in-store tasks) | - price checks
- product catalogs
- turn-in, direct, on-behalf ordering
- delivery
- returns management
- run reconciliation
- payment collection
- invoicing
- cash management
- inventory management
(stock takes, loading, transfers, replenishment) | | | |