The educational series covered
difficulties that food and beverage companies encounter on a
daily basis and focused on how to solve their unique issues as
well as common problems within the industry.
During his keynote presentation,
Olin Thompson of Process ERP Partners indicated that the food
and beverage distribution industry is among the most
competitive. “Margins are slim and the keys to success lies in
customer service and operational efficiency. Both of these keys
demand high quality, highly functional software.”
The Microsoft Great Plains and
ISV solutions that have been presented are an affordable,
flexible management solution that enables companies to
efficiently and effectively manage their operations to better
meet the ongoing complexity of customers needs.
The educational seminar focused
on financial solutions, distribution solutions (both warehouse
and route) as well as food sales promotion solutions. The main
goal of the series is to demonstrate how beneficial these
solutions are to the food and beverage distribution industry by
outlining a customer site where the solutions are currently in
operation.
Pete Gilstrap, President of ASC,
outlined the requirements for food and pharmaceutical grade
manufacturing and distribution solutions. His topics included
highlights of warehouse distribution solutions and with a
concentration on FDA edicts, homeland security for “Track and
Trace” rules, lot and component tracking, quality control and
many other features for requirements of a food grade solution.
“This educational series gives
food and beverage companies a solution that will get the job
done right at an affordable price," said Gilstrap. "Microsoft
Business Solutions has put together a team of professionals in
this industry for this event that know what is required to
provide positive workflow in various distribution environments.
This is a winning combination for Microsoft customers who are
trying to solve the business and distribution model that is
required as a food distributor or manufacturer to compete in
today’s market place using technology."
Headquartered in Dayton, Ohio,
ASC Inc., develops and supports state of the art software and
hardware solutions including Warehouse Management Systems,
Manufacturing Systems, route delivery systems and other custom
wireless tracking applications for customers seeking supply
chain solutions.
ASC software has recently won a
Microsoft Pinnacle Award for Innovation at the 2005 Microsoft
Convergence show for ASCTrac WMS software. This award was
presented for a customer site that showed the most innovation
for a Microsoft Business Solutions customer.
