OMS Web Order Entry
AFS Web OMS gives your customers or employees the convenience, accuracy and ability to enter orders themselves, 24/7 from any location with Internet access. Key features include quick order entry, order guide order entry, past order history & trends, order to par, real-time pricing and inventory and item details like history/buying trends, like items, email notification from host, the ability to configure individual customer profiles and customer ability to change suggested retail price (SRP).
This industry-leading web-based order management solution improves the sales process for food manufacturers and distributors while improving customer satisfaction. By providing customers and remote sales reps the ability to place orders and access sales information from anywhere with Internet access, AFS Web OMS v4.5 delivers improved sales cycles and flexibility throughout the order process.
Functionality includes:
- Exciting new and improved marketing features to help you sell more products
- Usability improvements to help your customers place orders faster and with less effort
- Advanced sales analytics with AFS's industry-leading business intelligence solution, Discovery
- A new software-as-a-service (SaaS) pricing model, which greatly reduces the upfront cost and time to implement!
With the newest version of Web OMS, version 4.5, AFS introduces exciting new marketing features designed specifically to help you market your products and increase sales from existing customers, including:
- Customers can modify the look-and feel to meet their specific branding and business needs, including changing color schemes, home page layout, which fields are display and in what order
- Banners to promote products, which can change based on the location of the user within the application, the product searches they perform and/or the type of customer that logs in
- Preferred brands that you want to sell can be displayed at top of product searches
- Offer spot promotion and deal specials
- Provide substitute and complementary product suggestions
- Messaging capabilities to send email to your customers and/or customer groups, as well as enable users to communicate with other stores within their chain or group
New usability features and improvements introduced in v4.5 to speed order entry and increase customer satisfaction include:
- Order-to-par functionality
- Customer item numbers can be entered and cross-referenced to the distributor or manufacturer's item numbers
- Cut-off time for orders are supported, based on customer location and warehouse fulfilling order
- Auto-save during order entry
- Support for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome browsers. Orders may now be placed 24x7 via a PC, a tablet (such as the iPad) and even a smartphone!
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
AFS Web OMS is also now available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. AFS will host the system and provide access for a small monthly fee. This greatly reducing the upfront investment and minimizes the need for IT support. Any food distributor can now offer their customers the ability to place orders and look up product information 24x7 with minimal effort and cost!
Advanced Reporting and Analytics
Along with extensive sales and customer/management reports, AFS Web OMS also integrates with AFS's industry-leading business intelligence solution, DiscoveryTM. DiscoveryTM provides management the ability to quickly identify profitable customers and products, analyze product promotions, and identify current product voids with your existing customer base to increase sales and profitability.
