AFS Technologies Expands Sales Force Automation Product Line
Releases Standard and Enterprise Edition Remote Order Management Laptop Software >>

Productivity enhancing mobile order management software for laptops or handheld PCs

AFS Standard Edition Laptop

AFS Enterprise Edition Laptop

AFS Handheld

Increase sales, customer satisfaction and field force efficiency by allowing sales people and customers to enter orders in the field using AFS MOBILE Sales software. Mobile sales automation software gives your sales staff or customers remote access to ERP data using a laptop or handheld PC or PDA. Mobile sales automation allows for faster order entry, eliminates double entry and keying of data, provides customers with more accurate, real-time info and promotes efficient customer communications. Orders are rapidly transmitted and updates received via the internet using all major types of modems and wireless communications standards.  Many hardware and accessory (bar code scanning, printer) options are available. 

AFS Standard Edition Laptop

More info on AFS MOBILE Sales (Standard Edition Laptop)

Give your DSRs the consultative sales building tools they need to help customers make good purchasing decisions and make every sale a profitable sale.  AFS Standard Edition Laptop helps your remote sales team increase account and line item penetration while boosting GP$ and percentage.  Interfaced to your ERP system for regular updating, the application provides DSRs with accurate and up to date information and complete access to your master product list with the ability to maintain customized order history files for each account.  Pricing and inventory are calculated directly on the laptop.  Powerful margin maintenance capability lets DSRs know the profitability and commission (if desired) of a particular sale at a particular price level.  Features cover ordering, order guide creation and maintenance, customer routing, sales tools, prospect management, pricing, inquiries and reporting. AFS Standard Edition Laptop is the successor product of the fully featured Raven laptop application used for years by thousands of DSRs daily rewritten on the state-of-the art Microsoft .NET technology platform.

Customer Search Screen (click to enlarge)	Product Search Screen	AR Report Screen

Other Screens:

Calculator
Category Ordering
Family and Group (product line/class) ordering
Order Guide
Order Header & Summary
Other Tabs

AFS Standard Edition Functional Highlights include:

• Easy order entry and customer search
• Maintain order guides with updated history, item changes and order guide grouping.
• Easy navigation including automatic item matching
• Search by product description to match all related products.
• Display push items, catch weights, discontinued, flagged for deletion, seasonal, etc with user defined colors.
• Toggle between cost, margin and estimated commission.
• Perform price overrides
• View detailed product information and images
• Recipe planning and order builder food cost management
• Real-time pricing and inventory editor with updates using wireless cards available
• Wine sales features
• Many reports and reporting options available
• Interfaces to your AFS supplied or your current distribution and financial software

AFS Enterprise Edition Laptop

More info on AFS MOBILE Sales (Enterprise Edition Laptop)

Give your DSRs the consultative sales building tools they need to help customers make good purchasing decisions and make every sale a profitable sale.  AFS Enterprise Edition Laptop helps your remote sales team increase account and line item penetration while boosting GP$ and percentage.  Interfaced to your ERP system for regular updating, the application provides DSRs with accurate and up to date information and complete access to your master product list with the ability to maintain customized order history files for each account.  Pricing and inventory are calculated on the ERP system and supplied to the laptop to ensure the sophisticated customer pricing strategies frequently used at large distributors are reflected on the salesperson’s laptop.  Powerful margin maintenance capability lets DSRs know the profitability and commission (if desired) of a particular sale at a particular price level.  Features cover ordering, order guide creation and maintenance, customer routing, sales tools, prospect management, pricing, inquiries and reporting.

Customer Search Screen (click to enlarge)	Product Search Screen	AR Report Screen

Other Screens:

Order Entry
Order Guide
Order Totals
Product Detail

AFS Enterprise Edition Functional Highlights include:

• Easy order entry and customer search
• Maintain order guides with updated history, item changes and order guide grouping.
• Easy navigation including automatic item matching, complementary or  replacement product suggestions
• Search by product description to match all related products.
• Display push items, catch weights, discontinued, flagged for deletion, seasonal, etc with user defined colors.
• Toggle between cost, margin and estimated commission.
• View detailed product information and images
• Perform price overrides
• Retail price maintenance
• Real-time pricing and inventory editor with updates using wireless cards available
• Many reports and reporting options available
• Interfaces to your AFS supplied or your current distribution and financial software

AFS Handheld

Handheld PC and PDA Solution Functional Highlights:

More info on AFS MOBILE Sales (Handheld)

• Access customer detail such as contact information, terms, credit limit and AR balance.
• View product details such as brand, description, line and unit of measure.
• View pack, weight, tare, Ti / Hi, extended description and UPC.
• Enter orders using order guides, bar code scanning, and view history and credit returns.
• Search history, products, customers and maintain the order guide.
  
  

With AFS Handheld, customers and sales staff will have the ability to access critical data such as order status, available inventory, current pricing and other information contained within your host system. Users connect to the web to access mission critical data in real-time, check availability, close sales, enter orders and confirm products anytime, anywhere.

AFS Handheld Advantages:

• Access and utilize your ERP data anytime, anywhere
• Increase sales, customer satisfaction and field force efficiency through portable / remote data access
• Enter orders, or analyze inventory in the field
• Compatible with most hardware with many accessory (bar code scanning, printers, etc.) options

Mobile sales automation solutions provide your customers and sales force the ability to access data quickly, and respond anytime, anywhere.

"Using the software, we've found that it saves us 10 minutes per order in the distribution center and 15 minutes per order at the store level too," said Ed Wahlenmaier, Purchasing & Inventory Manager.

"With two orders a week to over 100 stores, the increased productivity can really add up! Plus, it has brought our order entry accuracy to 100%."