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POS Tracking | Surveys | Draft Knob Surveys
Pricing and Discounting | Hunter Searches | And more...

POS Tracking  
 
  • Uses same order entry, inventory, and reporting systems as products (with few exceptions).
  • Track POS placements by location (window, behind bar, etc.) and by grading (dominant, competitive, unsatisfactory, etc.).
  • Allows all of the same analysis and reporting abilities as product sales with addition of placements and grading.
  • Surveys Back to Top
     
  • Survey customer and competitive data.
  • Use variety of questions
    • Quantities (number of facings, cases on display, taps, etc.)
    • Pricing
    • Yes/No
    • Multiple choice
  • Integrated with VIP Palms as part of presell sales calls.
  • Optionally print suvey collection sheets.
  • Enter results via Palm, hand-helds, or manually from survey sheets.
  • Design reports analyzing survey results against sales.
  • Draft Knob Surveys Back to Top
     
  • Survey and report on what draft beers (yours and competitors) are sold at on-premise accounts.
  • Reports can include combination of draft placements and actual sales.
  • Track date the draft lines cleaned at each account.
  • Use this independent method or incorporate draft knob surveys as part of surveys.
  • Pricing and Discounting Back to Top
     
  • Extensive generic capabilities. Almost all VIP distributors can use standard for pricing and discounting schedules.
  • Flexible pricing hierarchy: Customer, customer group, and price code (up to 9)
  • One entry point for all pricing and discounts
    • Enter and view prices, discounts, costs, depletion allowances, and profits.
    • Analyze profits and margins as prices are entered.
    • Test different pricing, costs, and depletion allowances to see how they affect your profit.
    • Test different pricing to see its effect on Price to Consumer at three different levels (for example, 10%, 15%, and 20% mark-ups).
    • Automatically update pricing based on selected test scenario.
    • Assign supplier promotion ID to a discount for supplier reporting.
  • Quantity discounting
    • Optionally tiered up to 4 levels (family plans)
    • Up to 8 quantity breaks within discount
    • Unlimited number of mix and match items.
    • Ability to set discount rate differently for mix and match items.
  • Special pricing
    • Cooperative discounts, where customers combine quantities in co-op buying to achieve quantity price break.
    • Cumulative discounts, where discounts determined by quantity sold over period of time. Credits automatically created and credit invoices created.
  • Special time-saving aids:
    • Copy discounts or pricing from one date range to another.
    • Copy discounts or pricing from one customer group to another.
  • Extensive reporting capability
    • Design your own pricing reports for internal use and for retailers using RANKER report writer.
    • Several standard price lists.

    Hunter Searches Back to Top
     
  • User-defined search formats
  • User-defined display of search results
    • Accounts
    • Products
    • Accounts Receivables
    • Accounts payable vendors
    • General ledger account numbers
    • System configuration settings
  • Searches accessible during field entry
  • And more... Back to Top
     
  • User-defined account and product lists
  • Route books
  • Ratio reports for bottle bill states
  • Commission reports
  • Depletion allowances
  • Costing
  • Driver statistics
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