Sales & Distribution Management
Parity Food Sales Management combines an efficient process-oriented customer service solution with numerous food industry specific features. This Parity solution aims to streamline the execution of customer orders through shipping and billing while eliminating the paper work, manual procedures and spreadsheets required by other enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Orders flow between people and departments automatically and securely.
Business rules and configuration automate most of the complex procedures, producing consistently error-free execution of pricing, promotions, brokerage, lot allocation, truck loading, shipping and billing. Parity Quality Management module allows you to select lots based on customer product specifications. Parity also offers speed features like customer order templates, quotes, standing orders, electronic data interchange (EDI), customer preferences and credit management which combine with workflow management to make your orders-to-cash cycle fast, accurate and efficient.
Sales Order Processing
Examples of the food specific features of Parity Sales Management include customer-specific product descriptions and codes, lot hold security, FIFO and direct lot allocation, sales discounts, accruals, allowances and promotions, distribution cost accounting, delivered and FOB pricing, included costs and off-invoice discounts, freight tables and automatic freight costing, random (catch) weights and even-weight storage units, unit of measure conversion and much more.
For food manufacturing and distribution, Parity manages the details so your staff spends less time on paper-based procedures and more time delivering real value to your customers. With a powerful database storing and organizing your data, the management team gains access to faster, more useful information. Complete accounting for freight and other distribution costs, promotions, discounts, brokerage and product costs brings you multiple views of profitability down to the individual order line item.
Pricing, Promotions & Accruals
Parity offers a powerful, extensible pricing tool used to automate and maintain pricing with minimal effort. Pricing covers details such as discounts, accruals and promotions. Pricing can by locked or open for changes by the user during an order entry. Options range from standard price lists to assigning pricing to customers, by shipping address, or by exception. Special pricing can be set for a specified date range and for a specific customer. Whether you have a single price list or many pricing arrangements, Parity assures reliable, accurate and automated pricing in an easy to set up and manage way.
Broker & Commissions Management
If you pay brokerage, Parity virtually eliminates the work from the process while assuring your payments are accurate and well documented. The system supports one or many brokers participating in an order item. Brokerage computation can include or exclude freight and discounts. Rates can be based on weight or dollar value. Remittance can be based on time of sale or upon cash receipts. This flexibility results in a system that offers complete brokerage automation: accruals, clear audit trails, accurate and reliable commission computations, and reflections of your brokerage profitability down to the order line item by customers and products
Truck Scheduling & Load Sequencing
One of the powerful collaboration tools offered in the Parity Sales Food Sales Management Suite sorts truck loads according to pre-established rules. This ensures that your shipping team starts each day organized — the shipping team sees orders assigned to trucks or routes with load summaries and load details. With that information, they can make any necessary changes to scheduling, loading and carrier assignments and initiate staging, loading and printing documents by truck load. Integration with the Parity barcode and warehouse management system further streamlines the loading and dispatch process providing maximum accuracy and efficiency. These tools even help minimize physical product handling and optimize space in your staging and shipping facilities.
Contracts, Quotes, Standing Orders, & Order Templates
In Parity, sales order initiation starts at the beginning. Parity extends the reach of ‘Order Processing’ to all the surrounding business processes and customer preferences. Orders can be initiated from an EDI submission, sales contracts, preliminary quotes, standing orders, routes, or a customer order template that remembers customer preferences. In combination with these and other Parity sales tools, including Pricing, Brokerage, and Quality Management, the actual data entry required to execute a sales order is minimized while accuracy, visibility and collaboration are maximized.
Electronic Order Processing (EDI)
Parity Integration Management includes connectors for EDI as well as preconfigured integration with RedTail Solutions (
http://www.redtailsolutions.net/) a leader in EDI with a substantial presence in the food industry.
