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David Feaster of AFS Technologies hosts an ePOD Customer Interview with David Kimm, DSD professional Services Manager, John Traynor, President of Traynor’s and John Robba, Director of IT at Scavuzzo’s. “Best Practices: Preparing for a successful implementation of ePoD” Proof of Delivery is a method to establish the fact that the recipient received the exact contents
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Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePoD) from AFS is helping consumer goods companies master the business of delivery. With the development of new Digital Supply Networks that are superseding the traditional supply chain, the importance of the ‘last mile’ for manufacturers and distributors is now more in focus than ever before. Dynamic fulfillment and Intelligent, on
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Warehouses are under more pressure than ever from supply chain demands, margin goals and regulations, even more so for Food and Beverage Distributors as perishable products need to move efficiently through and be traceable in the supply chain. Adding mobile functionality into warehouse operations has many valuable benefits. Read the WMS Tablet Application Article on
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The beneficial role DATUM plays in the supply chain can’t be understated. Without detailed product information you limit your sales potential and increase the amount of unhappy customers. Knowing exactly what you are ordering inspires confidence. AFS DATUM is a web-based portal residing in a secure cloud environment that uses the Global Trade Item
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Many consumer goods companies suffer from in-store execution challenges, which inhibit their sales growth and position them as less-than-optimal trading partners by retailers. Many have come to see retail execution as a cost of doing business instead of a competitive weapon that can deliver the desired sales growth. However, new capabilities have emerged across the
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TPO, or Trade Promotion Optimization is a hot topic for many of today’s leading CPG manufacturers. Join AFS hosts Yvonne McClure, Shelley Fow and Sheryle Blasko, as they review the annual planning process to help ensure that your team addresses the Who? What? Where? and When? to fluidly create an optimized plan for the year
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Prospecting: Services or Price? Which provided services build dependencies with your customer types? How do you maximize your profitable sales potential? How do you streamline the complexity of order entry? How do you synchronize your orders across your sales channels? Customer Engagement: How to build dependency with provided services. These and other questions will be
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In today’s webinar, Joel Cartwright the Director of Product Development for Trade Promotion Management Retail at AFS Technologies will be presenting this webinar on End of Trade Promotion Year: How to Avoid Surprises. What will you learn by attending this webinar? Improving year end accrual accuracy: • How much money do I need to set
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Join Sheryle Blasko, formerly a Business Analyst at Kraft Heinz Foods, as she looks at how four Tier 1 & 2 CPG companies use strategy, automation and control to drive growth in their foodservice businesses. Hear from Daniel Friedrich, Nestle Global Business Solutions Manager. Robert Krone, Director of Foodservice Finance at Dannon. John Kittle, Vice
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With all the data available these days, the decision making process at all levels has become a cumbersome task. Only few people in each organization understand the relevance of the information gathered and are able to define the strategy to follow to be successful at the shelf. With Machine Learning, the process of analyzing great
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Warehouse Improvements Using AFS WMS – Increasing Accuracy & Efficiency In this webinar, John Robba of Scavuzzo’s will talk with AFS’ Jordan Bullington, WMS Manager, about how Scavuzzo’s address the challenges of increased accuracy and efficiency in their warehouses. John will talk about how they train new employees and get them up to speed fast.
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In this webinar, John Robba of Scavuzzo’s will talk with AFS’ Jordan Bullington, WMS Manager, about how Scavuzzo’s address the challenges of increased accuracy and efficiency in their warehouses. John will talk about how they train new employees and get them up to speed fast. As transparency becomes an integral part of the global food
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To survive in the current competitive consumer goods landscape, sales organizations are focusing their efforts on visiting the right retailers and executing the right activities, such as data capturing and trade compliance, in as little time as possible. AFS Technologies will show you how by using digital image recognition and retail activity optimization, you can
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In this webinar hosted by CPGmatters in partnership with AFS Technologies, CEO – Joe Bellini talks about Retail Activity Optimization, which basically is the optimization of standard retail execution processes done every day – from call planning to the activities performed in stores. AFS WEBCAST Transcript: Retail Activity Optimization Welcome to another CPG Webcast, a service of
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Welcome to another AFS Webinar in partnership with CPG Webcast, a service of CPGmatters. In this webinar we’re talking about the annual TPM planning process. Consumer goods manufacturers focus on margins and profitability. Having a solid annual planning process to create a trade promotion plan for the coming year is critical. The plan would be
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When AFS was approached to partner with a large Tier 1 company to create a web portal for their operator customers to redeem coupons, we jumped at the challenge. For manufacturers and operators, this important element of the foodservice business has been stuck in the dark ages. Now that a solution has been sought by
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It’s sales planning time! Are you ready to get started? Do you have the right resources? How’s your data? Before you migrate your sales planning from spreadsheets or another trade promotion management (TPM) application, learn the best practices and hear case studies that will help you see benefits in two months by viewing this session
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This AFS Webinar Series edition features industry leaders and subject matter experts in the Retail Execution industry. In “Helping Your Field Force Achieve the Perfect Store – Accelerating Retail Activity” AFS Technologies CEO, Joe Bellini discusses why Retail Activity Optimization (RAO) is such an important discipline to drive productivity at retail.
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This AFS Webinar Series edition features industry leaders and subject matter experts in the Retail Execution industry. In “Helping Your Field Force Achieve the Perfect Store – Accelerating Retail Activity” AFS Technologies CEO, Joe Bellini discusses why Retail Activity Optimization (RAO) is such an important discipline to drive productivity at retail.
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This AFS Webinar Series edition features industry leaders and subject matter experts in the supply chain industry. In “Preparing for a Product Recall” GS1 presented “Standards in Action” and Fran Rifkin of AFS interviews Federated Cooperatives Limited’s, Curtis Nickel, discussing how they handle product recalls.
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Scenario planning is a critical component of the annual planning process. An annual planning process has to take into account a massive amount of information from many different departments and external sources from previous years, sales figures, performance data, costs associated to promotions, and post-event analysis reports. Using software for scenario planning as part of
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The AFS Foodservice Webinar Presenters Ken Brock, VP, Sales – TPM Division Ken is the VP of Sales for the TPM Division at AFS, Ken has over 20 years of Food and Beverage Industry experience beginning in accounting & finance and most recently as Director of National Account Sales at Perfetti Van Melle (Makers of Mentos).
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AFS partnered with CGT to explore the people side of TPM. We will reveal the results of a recent CGT report that studied the implications of IT involvement in TPM and looked at how well systems are actually being used and by whom to manage trade spend and deductions. In this section of the webinar
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If you are interested in the topic of Retail Execution and especially in what kind of innovation will shape it in the near future, you should definitely not miss this one. Some topics covered: Understand industry best practices for optimizing retail execution activities Learn more about the benefits of an integrated in-store image processing and
