ss3 = new slideshow("ss3");
// Create the slides and add them to the slideshow.
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-1 entree Main Form.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-1 entree Main Form.jpg";
s.title = "entrée Main Menu";
s.text = "After you login to entrée with a valid username and password, the Main Menu will appear. This is your starting point for using the entrée application.
Besides navigating throughout the system, the Main Menu will display the current version number, the company entrée is licensed to, a scrolling message you can customize, the current system date, and the “Order Taker” code from the login credentials.
Note that the system tracks the activity of each of your users based on the user’s “Order Taker” code. For example, you can see who created an invoice with the date/time as well as who made any changes to that invoice, etc.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-2 My Menu.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-2 My Menu.jpg";
s.title = "My Menu";
s.text = "Different users of entrée within your food distribution company will be assigned different tasks. Someone may only do order entry tasks and print jobs, while another user may only do purchasing related tasks, for example.
In order to make using entrée as fast as possible by reducing the time a user has to navigate menus, the “My Menu” feature was introduced and has gained very popular acceptance among NECS entrée users.
The “My Menu” option allows each user to configure a top level menu of only the entrée menu selections they most commonly use.
The image displayed shows the “My Menu Configuration” screen where the individual user can select their commonly used menu selections. Note that no matter which workstation the user logs into, their “My Menu” screen will be loaded.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-2.5 Batch Email.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-2.5 Batch Email.jpg";
s.title = "Email Engine";
s.text = "NECS entrée includes powerful emailing capabilities which allows for most documents (Invoices, Statements, Purchase Orders, etc.) and all reports to be easily emailed to customers, vendors, etc.
The ability to batch email documents is also supported. For example, you can designate customers to receive their latest Price List automatically every week. With just a click of your mouse, entrée can generate and email custom Price Lists for hundreds or thousands of your customers.
The image displayed shows one of entrée’s Customer File Maintenance screens where the customers email address can be defined, as well as if they are authorized for batch emails, such as mass generations of Price Lists.
Email can be sent as PDF, Excel or Text file.
Users can be restricted as to what types of email they can send, and the System Administrator has the option to automatically receive a copy of all emails sent from entrée.
The email engine also includes a 'Return Receipt' feature so that you can be notified when the recipient of your email has received it.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-3 Security Manager.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-3 Security Manager.jpg";
s.title = "Security Manager";
s.text = "Access to all key areas of entrée is managed by a comprehensive, encrypted, security management system.
Each of your users will be assigned a Username and Password, as well as a “Group” designation. There are currently hundreds of features within entrée you can choose to allow or not grant access to for your users.
Security accounts are also used to track who entered and made changes to an invoice, who made inventory cost and price changes and to track what users do in other parts of the entrée system.
Rather than spending a great deal of time authorizing what functions each of your users is allowed, you can define “Group” security. For example, you can define an “Order Entry” group, which only allows those certain features you designate for your order entry personnel. You can then assign specific users into the “Order Entry” group, and they will automatically be allowed those features within entrée.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "contacts/CM-1.jpg";
s.link = "contacts/CM-1.jpg";
s.title = "Contact Manager";
s.text = "The Contact Manager in entrée allows you to have as many contacts as required for each of your customers and vendors.
In addition, it allows for miscellaneous contacts to be created. It is accessible from the main menu of entrée, as well as other key areas such as invoicing and customer account inquiry.
Besides names and addresses, each contact can have an unlimited amount of phone numbers, email addresses and notes.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-8 Daily Summary.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-8 Daily Summary.jpg";
s.title = "Daily Summary";
s.text = "The 'Daily Summary' feature provides entrée users a valuable tool for targeting and monitoring the activities that drive your profitability.
You can easily create customized configurations to analyze and report on the factors that are most important to your foodservice distribution operation.
The “Daily Summary” screen is a very popular tool which provides an overview of sales performance and deliveries in a “side-by-side” or “over-under” layout for a specified day.
Many entrée users keep this screen available on their computer throughout the day to easily monitor the days activity.
Customer sales activity can be sorted and analyzed by Route, Salesperson, Customer Location, and Order Takers.
Summary and detail information broken down by invoice is provided, as well as displaying the data using bar graphs or pie charts. ";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-7 History Graphs.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-7 History Graphs.jpg";
s.title = "Sales History";
s.text = "The entrée system carefully tracks your sales and purchase history and can provide you with both the numbers you need and visual graphing options to clearly see sales and purchasing patterns.
A central part of sales history is built into many reports. For example, our 'Customer Comparative Sales Analysis' report can take your customers sales history and analyze sales dollars, cost, gross profit, gross profit percentage, percent change by period... and produce it compartively by week, month, quarter, year or a custom format you specify. This is just one example that shows you the power of our software.
Besides many reporting features, the ability to generate graphs is also included. This includes bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. You can take any item, customer or vendor and generate a graph of its activity.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-9 Inventory Search Screen.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-9 Inventory Search Screen.jpg";
s.title = "Searches";
s.text = "In your fast paced world, finding an item, customer, vendor, invoice, purchase order, lot number, etc. quickly and easily with your software is of critical importance.
The entrée system has a powerful search system, which is easily configurable to your exact needs.
Our search system can instantly find information in databases containing tens of the thousands of entries.
Searching can look for an exact match or use our “contains” feature to find partial matches. For example, the “contains” feature is especially useful if you don’t know exactly how an item’s description was entered. Just enter any keyword, and no matter where it falls in the item’s description, and those matches will be instantly displayed.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-10 Help System.jpg";
s.link = "general/General-10 Help System.jpg";
s.title = "Help System";
s.text = "With an advanced software product such as entrée, with thousands of features, getting informative help quickly is a necessity.
Whenever you are in an area of entrée where you need further information, instead of reaching for our 800+ page manual, simply hit the F1 key. This invokes our help system which will provide you with the details you need quickly.
Using our help system is fast and easy, and is automatically updated with new information (and examples where appropriate) whenever new features are added to the software.";
ss3.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "general/General-11 Theme example.gif";
s.link = "contacts/CM-1.jpg";
s.title = "Themes";
s.text = "Providing you with the ability to change the look and color configuration of your entrée software is important for ease of use, reducing eye strain and overall productivity.
Integrated into entrée is our “Theme Engine”, which changes the appearance of all of the windows and dialogs in the system.
Themes enhance the look and readability of the entrée system and are set on a per user account basis from the Personal Settings tab of System Preferences. This allows each user to set their personal favorite.
To the left is an example of our “Golden Dragon” theme as displayed while creating a customer invoice. Over 25 themes are included with the default being “New Age Blue”.";
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ss4 = new slideshow("ss4");
// Create the slides and add them to the slideshow.
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-1 IFM Inventory tab.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-1 IFM Inventory tab.jpg";
s.title = "Inventory File";
s.text = "The NECS entrée system includes the most advanced inventory control system available for food distributors.
With ease, you'll always have accurate and up-to-date information on all your items, including:
On-hand Quantity, Weight and Value
Warehouse, Slot and Bin locations
Vendor purchase details including quantity due for arrival and when
Allocated quantity for pending customer orders
FDA Bio-Terrorism Tracking
The inventory system can track:
Unlimited Units of Measure
Catch Weights
Constant Weights
Case-to-Piece Breaking
Lot Control
Kits / Repackaging
Sales and Gross Profit
Promotions, Rebates and Billbacks
COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) and Production Method
Unlimited Vendors per Item";
ss4.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-2 IFM Lots tab.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-2 IFM Lots tab.jpg";
s.title = "Lot Control";
s.text = "Extensive and detailed control of your inventory can be enabled by using entrée’s Lot control option. This option is used by distributors wanting:
Advanced cost controls and reporting (rather than using standard FIFO or LIFO methods)
Adherence to the FDA Bio-Terrorism tracking for product recalls
Control over products stored in public warehouses and cold storages
Serial number tracking
Lot’s provide meticulous tracking of your inventory, including:
Lot Number
Current On Hand Quantity, Weight and Allocations
Received and Expiration Dates
Warehouse Location
Real, Base and Landed Costs
Vendor and Purchase Order
COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) and Production Method
Much more…";
ss4.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-3 IFM Expiring Lots.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-3 IFM Expiring Lots.jpg";
s.title = "Lot Expirations";
s.text = "The Lot Expirations feature allows you to review lot’s in your inventory and their status regarding reaching expiration.
Lot’s which are nearing their expiration date, are a priority for your sales staff to pay attention to. Your current on hand lot inventory is placed into color coded groups on this screen. Lot’s which are 61-90 days from expiration are shown in green, lots which are 31-60 days from expiration are shown in yellow, lots which are 1-30 days from expiration are shown in orange, and lots which have expired are shown in red.
A graphic analysis of your lot inventory and what percentage falls into each category, can be easily generated as a pie chart. You can also see a summary of the expiring lot values by either Real or Base Cost.";
ss4.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-4 IFM Kits tab.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-4 IFM Kits tab.jpg";
s.title = "Kits";
s.text = "For food distributors producing their own items, the Kit feature, which acts as a simple bill-of-materials, can be used. Lot numbers can be assigned to each “batch” of product produced.
Inventory Kits allow you to define all the sub-products or ingredients that go into make the final “master” item.
Kits not only maintain inventory quantity and weight information, but also track costs. When the cost of an ingredient is changed, entrée can automatically update the costs and pricing of all kit items which use that ingredient.";
ss4.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-5 IFM MIS2 screen.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-5 IFM MIS2 screen.jpg";
s.title = "Misc. Item Info";
s.text = "Among the more than 100 fields which are tracked for each of your items, this screen shows:
COOL (Country of Origin Labeling)
Production Method
External Web link used to point to an Internet site which contains detailed or manufacturers information about the item
Attaching a picture to the product which is used throughout the system including order entry, price lists, etc.";
ss4.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "inventory/I-6 Receive by Item.jpg";
s.link = "inventory/I-6 Receive by Item.jpg";
s.title = "Receive by Item";
s.text = "The entrée system allows your inventory to be received by purchase order, by date, and in the example of the screen shown to the left, by item.
The Receive by Item method allows for recording every receipt of items into your inventory, one item at a time. Though other methods used in entrée are faster (such as receiving via scanned barcodes with our warehouse solution called entrée.UPC), this screen shows the detail of the information which is collected, including:
Received Date
Cost
Vendor
Quantity and Weight
Reference
Exchange Rate with cost conversion if purchased in another currency
Lot information
Shellfish Harvest Date, Bed and Permit (for DHEC requirements)";
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ss5 = new slideshow("ss5");
// Create the slides and add them to the slideshow.
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-1 IFM Cost tab.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-1 IFM Cost tab.jpg";
s.title = "Inventory Cost/Price";
s.text = "A food distributor's need for flexible costing and pricing options are included and exceeded with the entrée system.
The entrée system can organize your ever changing costs and calculate accurate gross profits using “Average”, “New” or “Lot” based formulas. Cost values which are tracked per item, include:
Real Cost: the real or actual cost from your vendor
Freight Rate: freight cost to have this product delivered to your warehouse
Landed Cost: the Real Cost + Freight Rate
Cost Markup: the burden or overhead factor added to an item
Base Cost: the total cost of an item considering all cost factors
Lot Cost: the Real Cost as assigned to a specific Lot
Market Cost: the cost for a commodity item as determined by a market
The entrée system includes a wide variety of pricing strategies for your products which will support your customer base. The many pricing methods available will provide enough options to satisfy even the most demanding user’s needs. Pricing options include:
Price Levels: up to 99 price levels can be defined per item based off a margin percent or a dollar amount over cost
Customer Special Pricing: pricing you can set per customer, per item, to allow for unlimited pricing abilities
Broken Case Upcharge: pricing to automatically calculate the price of PC. Items pulled from a CASE
Price Matrix: complex grid based pricing you can define for special needs
Future Pricing: define pricing for items to take effect on a future date
Sale Pricing: ideal for weekly flyers and products you want to place on sale to move quickly
Group Code Pricing: assign customer pricing into specific price levels, depending on the “Group” of the item
Bid Pricing: assign customers a bid pricing with effective dates to lock in pricing
Minimum Sell Price: in order to protect your profit margins, you can define the lowest cost possible an item can be sold at
Promotional Pricing: define product promotions, including buy so many, get so many free";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-2 Formula.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-2 Formula.jpg";
s.title = "Price Level Formulas";
s.text = "The NECS entrée system allows you to define up to 99 Price Levels per item. Customers are then assigned to a specific price level. To add to this flexibility, you can optionally define how each price level is calculated, including:
Cost Basis: The cost basis will determine which cost (Real, Market, Landed or Base) the price level is derived from.
Formula: The price level can be calculated using either a “% of Cost” or “% of Sell Price” formula.
Rounding: Each price level can be rounded to the penny, nickel, dime or quarter.
Rounding Method: Each price level can be rounded to the “Nearest” or “Next” penny, nickel, dime or quarter.
Markup Percentage: A markup percentage can be defined per level. ";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-3 Item Receiving Cost update.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-3 Item Receiving Cost update.jpg";
s.title = "Cost/Price Updating";
s.text = " Whenever there are changes to an item’s cost (most commonly during the process of receiving inventory via purchase orders), the entrée system will quickly and easily guide you through the process of updating your costs and pricing. Features such as this are extremely valuable, when you consider the almost unlimited pricing options you can define. For example, if you use our “Customer Special Pricing” option, you can literally define a unique price for a specific item for each of your customers.
When updating your costs and pricing, entrée will optionally allow you to:
Automatically update the cost and pricing of directly related items, such as PC. Items which are pulled from a CASE.
Choose to use either the “Average” or “New” update method. Note that the “Average” method considers the current on hand levels and your current costing, along with the newly received quantity to determine true average costing.
Automatically update all your Customer Special Pricing.
Automatically update your Price Levels or you can manually review.
Update your Minimum Sell Price, Kits, Made From Items (for processors) and more";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-4 Special Price.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-4 Special Price.jpg";
s.title = "Special Pricing";
s.text = "Customer Special Pricing is a powerful pricing feature used by the great majority of food distributors using the entrée software. You can literally define a special price for every item that each of your customers may purchase. These special prices can float dynamically as your costs change by either a dollar amount or a percentage. One of the key features is the ability to define special prices that are calculated as a percentage or dollar amount over the Real, Landed, Base or Market Cost.
You can also define “Bid Pricing” or contract pricing, which is a locked in price for a customer within a defined date range. If the delivery date of a customer’s invoice falls within the terms of the bid/contract pricing, then that pricing will override other pricing methods.
Editing of Special Pricing can be accomplished either by customer or by item. For example, if editing by item, all of the customers which purchase that item will be displayed at once. When editing by customer, you will see all of the products that customer normally purchases along with their assigned special price for each.
Note that along with pricing, this feature also allows you to define a custom item description, taxable status and retail pricing per customer.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-5 Special Price by Customer.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-5 Special Price by Customer.jpg";
s.title = "Special Pricing by Customer";
s.text = "Customer Special Pricing is maintained on the Special Price tab of both the Inventory and Customer files. The screen to the left depicts the editing on special pricing via the Customer file.
For most food distributors, pricing is a very important part of doing business and maintaining customer loyalty. Simply assigning a customer into a pre-defined price level, just won’t work most of the time. Our Special Pricing features allow you the flexibility you need to earn your customers business and keep them happy.
Items can be manually added to a customer’s special price file, as well as the system automatically adding them as orders are created. The entrée software provides many options related to how special pricing should be collected and maintained, to best suit the needs of your company.
When your costs change, you have the option of not changing your customer special pricing, or making a change based on a pre-defined dollar amount or percentage over your Real, Landed, Base or Market Cost. So if your cost goes up 0.10 cents on a specific item, you can either do nothing or raise all special pricing by 0.10 cents or a pre-defined percentage. Various reports you can generate for customers, including the Price List, will indicate to your customers if their pricing has gone up or down from their last order.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-6 Break Price tab.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-6 Break Price tab.jpg";
s.title = "Break Pricing";
s.text = "The Break Pricing feature in entrée allows setting up quantity price breaks on a 'per item' basis. This allows you to encourage customers to purchase more, as the higher quantity they purchase, the lower pricing they can receive. For example, if you allow your customers to place their own orders online, via our entrée.NET product, they will see the Break Pricing for the item being ordered so they can take advantage of savings by purchasing a larger quantity.
The feature provides starting and ending dates (both dates optional), an option to control whether the Break Price will override a Customer Special Price and an option to determine whether or not the prices will be updated to follow changes in the cost of items.
Note that you can selectively edit via the Customer file, which customers qualify for Break Pricing.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-7 Promo Pricing.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-7 Promo Pricing.jpg";
s.title = "Promotions";
s.text = "Promotions in entrée allows for the definition of item based discounts that are given customers when they purchase the item. The entrée software offers three types of promotions.
1. Dollar based promotions, which give the customer a discount to the normal selling price of the item.
2. Buy X Get Y Free promotion.
3. Percentage based promotions where the discount amount to be deducted is calculated as a percentage of the item's Unit Price.
Up to 10 dollar based promotions can be defined for a single item in the promotions grid. Whether or not an item qualifies for a promotion can be determined by setting a minimum and maximum quantity, as well as a date range.
Some distributors use the minimum and maximum quantity restrictions to set quantity pricing breakpoints. For example, if a customer buys up to 5 cases of the product they would get the promotion rate of $1.00 per case off. If the same customer bought 6 to 10 cases of the product they would receive $1.25 per case off.
Bill Back dollars can also be defined to track vendor rebates/bill backs. Many of the entrée sales reports can be configured to display the bill back values that your vendors should provide you credits for.
You can also link specific customers to promotions via a “Misc Code” which is defined in the Customer file. The Misc Code for the promotion is optional and if it is left blank, no miscellaneous code restrictions are enforced.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-8 Sale Pricing.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-8 Sale Pricing.jpg";
s.title = "Sale Pricing";
s.text = "One of the notable pricing features of the entrée system is the ability to maintain an item’s Sale Pricing.
Sale Pricing can be enabled via a starting and ending date.
You can also selectively choose which Price Level assignments will quality for Sale Pricing. For example, you can define that an item’s Sale Pricing is only valid for customers that are assigned “Price Level 1” for their purchases.
Sale Pricing can be used to maintain weekly specials, coinciding with advertising and/or flyers you send to your existing or potential customers.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-9 Group Code Pricing.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-9 Group Code Pricing.jpg";
s.title = "Group Code Pricing";
s.text = "Group Code Pricing is yet another feature the entrée system offers to provide more flexibility with your pricing.
A Group Code is an eight character field which represents a general class of items. For example, MEAT, CHEESE, SEAFOOD, PRODUCE, BEEF, POULTRY, etc. can all be valid Group Codes. Group Codes can also be assigned effective dates, so this feature can only be active for the date range you enter, if you prefer.
You assign a Group Code to each of your items. You also assign a Price Level to each of your customers. Then using the Group Code feature, you can override the customers normal Price Level, depending on the type of item purchased. For example, if a customers is assigned to “Price Level 2”, but they purchase an item assigned to the CHEESE Group Code, which you set to “Price Level 5” Group Code Pricing for them, then they will receive “Price Level 5” pricing automatically.";
ss5.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "pricing/Price-10 Future Pricing.jpg";
s.link = "pricing/Price-10 Future Pricing.jpg";
s.title = "Future Pricing";
s.text = "Many foodservice distributors update their pricing on a periodic basis, usually one week at a time. Pricing stays constant for the week. However, many times, next week’s pricing is known as early as Wednesday of the previous week.
The Future Pricing option was created to address this situation.
The entrée system allows you to enter cost and pricing for specific items that will go into effect on the date you specify. In essence, this pricing information sits in a holding file until it is rolled over, or updated by you.
However, prior to the effective date, different parts of entrée (such as Price Lists, Customer Order Forms, Invoices, etc.) can use the future pricing.
You have different options to quickly and easily enter Future Price information.";
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ss6 = new slideshow("ss6");
// Create the slides and add them to the slideshow
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-1 File Maintenance.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-1 File Maintenance.jpg";
s.title = "Customer File";
s.text = "Providing your customers with the best service is crucial to the lifeblood of your organization.
Customer file maintenance is where customers are entered into the entrée system and maintained.
Because of the many different requirements that are typically required by food service distributors, entrée offers a rich set of options when setting up customers.
Everything from special rules for taxes, accounts receivable setup, credit hold definitions, hot messaging, routing, order call times, unlimited bill-to / ship-to combinations, detailed notes, credit cards… just to name a few.";
ss6.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-2 Routes.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-2 Routes.jpg";
s.title = "Routes";
s.text = "The ability to easily route your trucks each day is critical to the smooth and efficient operation of your business.
However, routing trucks is not an exact science. Certain customers may have emergencies that require your driver to stop there first, or road conditions may dictate a change in plans.
The entrée system allows you to define basic Route and Stop sequencing for your customers for each day of the week. The system can also track related information including preferred delivery times, and call times for order takers.
On the actual day of delivery, entrée provides tools to easily change and re-arrange standard route and stop information.
Note that invoices can be printed in a delivery or reverse delivery sequence and many of the reports in entrée can be grouped or sorted by truck route such as the Pick List, Pull Sheet, and Invoice Register.";
ss6.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-3 Notes.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-3 Notes.jpg";
s.title = "Notes/Customer Logo";
s.text = "The Customer Notes tab provides an area to store detailed notes about the customer. Up to 820 lines of notes can be entered, so you have extensive space to enter free form information about the customer. This information can be displayed/edited in various areas throughout entrée including invoicing, cash receipts entry, customer account inquiry, etc.
In addition, entrée allows you to link the customer's logo to their customer record. This allows you to brand key areas of entrée to your customer, to give them a more personalized feel. These areas include Price List’s you generate for them, as well as their order entry screen when they log onto entrée.NET to place an order on the Internet.";
ss6.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-4 Cust Account Inq.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-4 Cust Account Inq.jpg";
s.title = "Customer Account Inquiry";
s.text = "The Customer Account Inquiry utility allows entrée users to quickly see a summary of a customer's account status. User’s of entrée can have access to this screen in key areas, such as when creating or changing invoices.
All of the open invoices of a customer as well as the paid invoices of the current period are displayed.
Besides clear and instant access to a customer’s accounts receivable status, this screen also provides the ability to display:
Month and year-to-date sales breakdown.
Detailed cash receipts breakdown.
View and edit Customer Notes.
Monthly accounts receivable breakdown.
Ability to print, fax or email an Aging Report for the customer.
Ability to print, fax or email any invoice for the customer, which appears on this screen.";
ss6.add_slide(s);
s = new slide();
s.src = "customers/Cust-5 Email setup.jpg";
s.link = "customers/Cust-5 Email setup.jpg";
s.title = "Email Setup";
s.text = "Because more and more of your customers depend on email for communications, entrée includes a centralized email engine allowing most documents to be emailed.
Everything from invoices, statements, purchase orders and reports can be emailed. Email is typically sent in either the PDF or Excel spreadsheet format.
Some reports such as Order Forms and Price Lists may be 'batch' emailed. This allows you to generate these reports at a scheduled point during the week or month. For example, every Monday morning, you can have entrée automatically email personalized Price Lists to your customers. Just click and in minutes, hundreds of your customers will have a beautiful looking PDF document of their Price List in their inbox.
The email engine also includes a 'Return Receipt' feature so that you can be notified when the recipient of your email has received it.";
ss6.add_slide(s);
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s.src = "customers/Cust-6 History Page.jpg";
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s.title = "Customer History";
s.text = "Viewing a customer’s history of their purchases is always just a mouse click away.
Simply choose the History option, select a year, and you’ll see both a sales dollar breakdown by month and a graphical representation of the data.
Choose to view the graph as either a line, bar or pie chart.";
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s.src = "orders/O-1 Call List.jpg";
s.link = "orders/O-1 Call List.jpg";
s.title = "Call List";
s.text = "The process of entering a customer’s order has been fined tuned over the last 20+ years from the feedback of over 1,500 food distributors. Speed, accuracy and the ability to never leave off key items customer’s may forget, have always been the goal. But we can’t take all the credit. That’s because some of the best minds in the food distribution business, our customers, have provided suggestions and insights to streamline the ordering process.
Creating an order can begin with the Call List feature.
The Call List feature is a useful tool your order entry staff can use to both ensure they make all of their daily calls and to keep track of the order status for their customers.
At the beginning and throughout the process of entering customer orders, the Call List screen is available. The information that appears on it is linked to the user that has logged into entrée. Each of your users with permission to enter invoices, will be assigned an “order taker code”. Each customer can be assigned an in-house order taker, along with the days of the week and times they should be called for their order.
If preferred, the entrée system can also generate different styles of Call List reports which can provide this information along with a listing of all the items the customer normally purchases. These reports can be printed, emailed or faxed.";
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s.src = "orders/O-2 Invoice Screen.jpg";
s.link = "orders/O-2 Invoice Screen.jpg";
s.title = "Invoicing";
s.text = "Creating and changing invoices is the heart of the entrée system. Your customer service representatives can enter orders with lightning speed and accuracy, while they have a wealth of information available to them. This includes a history of customer buying habits showing a complete listing of last purchase dates, quantities and pricing. They can also be alerted if different sales quotas or minimum gross profit targets are not met.
Some features of the invoicing process include:
Hot Messages defined per customer to remind your order entry staff of important information before an order is placed.
Credit limit settings can be enforced so that you don’t sell to delinquent accounts.
Optional prevention of overselling when you don’t have enough product (either in your warehouse or on the way via purchase orders) to meet a customer’s request.
Ability to select from “substitute” items if you are low or out-of-stock for a requested item.
Invoices can be printed on either a dot matrix or laser printer with plain paper, including your company’s logo for cost savings and a very professional look. You can also print on pre-printed forms.
Graphic images can be attached to each item.
Viewing a complete accounts receivable status of the customer.
Viewing the customers complete buying history per item, including the last purchase date, quantity and price.
Attaching comments to an invoice, that either only your warehouse will see, or can also appear on the customers final invoice.
and so much more…
Whenever invoices are created or changed, the entrée system tracks which of your users did what, including the date and time. So when questions about customer orders do arise, you will be able to trace out exactly what happened.
Many NECS customers have told us that the strengths of our invoicing process, was a key reason for deciding to purchase entrée. You can expect your sales to increase while ordering errors will go almost to zero.
It’s important to note, that besides invoicing, entrée can also create and track:
Sales Orders
Quotations
Credit Memos
Automatically create orders from pre-defined customer data called “Standard Orders”";
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s.src = "orders/O-3 Standard Order.jpg";
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s.title = "Standard Order";
s.text = "The Standard Order feature was designed to allow orders to be entered quickly, properly and efficiently.
While invoicing, this screen will display each of the items the customer regularly purchases and allow the user to quickly enter the quantity requested.
Note that as each item is displayed, key information about that customers last purchase are shown, including last sale quantity, date and price. You can even set the order in which items appear, in case your customer prefers to order items in a specific sequence.
Even though your customers may quickly place phone orders, many NECS customer can easily keep up the pace because of the simple and elegant design.
But most notable of all is the primary goal of this feature, which is to help your order entry staff sell more product while preventing customer call backs with add-ons to their order. This is accomplished because the order entry person can quickly determine any items that are being skipped. This provides the opportunity to ask the customer about those skipped items.
The bottom line is that you will sell more items and at the same time improve relations with your customers because they’ll realize you care enough to know and remember what they order.";
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s.src = "orders/O-4 Assign Lots.jpg";
s.link = "orders/O-4 Assign Lots.jpg";
s.title = "Assign Lots";
s.text = "An increasingly important aspect of inventory control, is the ability to track lots. This option is used by distributors wanting:
Advanced cost controls and reporting (rather than using standard FIFO or LIFO methods)
Adherence to the FDA Bio-Terrorism tracking for product recalls
Control over products stored in public warehouses and cold storages
Serial number tracking
When using lot control and creating invoices, you can either have the system automatically pick your oldest lots first to fill an order, or you can selectively assign lots.
The example screen to the left shows a pop-up window where the order entry person is shown the available lots in inventory, and selectively pick which one(s) should be picked for this order.
Your warehouse staff will easily see which lot to pick for a customer order via either a barcode scanner (using our entrée.UPC module) or via printed documents such as Loading Sheets, Pick Lists or Pull Sheets.";
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s.src = "orders/O-5 Loading Sheet.JPG";
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s.title = "Loading Sheets";
s.text = "The Loading Sheet is one of the documents (besides Pick Lists and Pull Sheets) designed for your warehouse staff to pick orders in an organized sequence.
Note that catch weight items will have lines drawn under the description, in the format “____.__” for the total quantity ordered. The purpose of these lines are for your warehouse staff to write down the catch weights of the products picked. Later when these Loading Sheets come back into your office, the catch weights will be keyed in, and then the final invoice can be generated. However, if you use our entrée.UPC module, then the barcode scanner used in the warehouse, will automatically add the weights to the customers invoice thereby saving time and improving accuracy.
Loading Sheets have many different options when they print, including:
Ability to sort or page break based on “Temperature Zone”, such as Dry, Frozen, Refrigerated
Ability to show customer “Add-on” items separately. This is useful if an order was already picked when the customer calls to add new items to their order.
Ability to sort by Warehouse Location, for faster picking.
Comments which print for only the warehouse to see when picking the order.";
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s.src = "orders/O-6 Enter Weight Detail.jpg";
s.link = "orders/O-6 Enter Weight Detail.jpg";
s.title = "Enter Weights";
s.text = "As many users of the entrée system deal with meat, poultry, cheese and seafood, it will come as no surprise that catch weights are fully supported.
A catch weight is the unique weight that a unit of a particular item weighs. They are especially important because the customer is billed by the amount of these weights.
The entrée system completely automates the catch weight entry process, even spotting errors if an individual catch weight is greater than its defined “maximum weight” or less than its defined “minimum weight”.
Note that the system can generate a “Loading Sheet” which will draw the proper number of lines beneath each catch weight item for your warehouse personnel to write down each weight. Later, when the invoice prints, besides printing the total weight, the system can show each catch weight.
Of interest to many distributors wishing to save time and make their order picking process even faster, more accurate, as well as saving time for your office staff, is our entrée.UPC software.
The entrée.UPC module, which runs on radio frequency based handheld scanners, will further automate the process of collecting catch weights. With this system if your catch weight items have barcodes, entrée.UPC can scan the weights directly off the case. This eliminates the need for your warehouse pickers to write down weights and also frees up your office staff from entering each weight into the computer. ";
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s.src = "orders/O-7 Invoice with catchweights.JPG";
s.link = "orders/O-7 Invoice with catchweights.JPG";
s.title = "Invoice w/Catch Weights";
s.text = "As illustrated to the left, the entrée system can automatically print the individual catch weights and total them up on the customer’s invoice.";
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s.src = "orders/O-8 Item Shortage Adjustments.jpg";
s.link = "orders/O-8 Item Shortage Adjustments.jpg";
s.title = "Item Shortage Adjustments";
s.text = "The Item Shortage Adjustments utility is provided for those times when you oversell an item.
This utility allows you to view and/or adjust the ship quantity of each customer that ordered the product within a specified date range and/or route. The purpose being to reduce the quantity shipped for some customers, so that everyone can get something, rather than some customers not getting anything.
Note that:
All changes made from this utility will update the invoices, without having to change all the invoices individually.
Some distributors choose to use this window as a tracking tool as well. Because you are able to enter a date range, you can quickly find out who bought a product and how many units they purchased for a given day, week, month, or any period you see fit.
The item shortage adjustments utility allows you to quickly view all of the customers that purchased an item on a given route.
Shortages can be printed on the customers invoice, so they can clearly see what items they ordered you were not able to ship.";
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s.src = "orders/O-10 Assign Routes.jpg";
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s.title = "Assign Routes";
s.text = "The ability to easily route your trucks each day is critical to the smooth and efficient operation of your business.
However, routing trucks is not an exact science. Certain customers may have emergencies that require your driver to stop there first, or road conditions may dictate a change in plans.
After entering or editing this information, invoices can be printed in a delivery or reverse delivery sequence
Many of the reports in entrée can be grouped or sorted by truck route such as the Loading Sheet, Pick List, Pull Sheet, Delivery Manifest and invoice Register.
The following is a list of the key features in the entrée assign route number utility:
View all of the invoices scheduled for delivery on a specific date.
Edit the Route #, Stop #, or Truck # (if more than one truck is assigned to the same route).
View the print status and how many times each invoice has been printed (if any) for listed invoices. ";
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s.src = "orders/O-11 Return Codes.jpg";
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s.title = "Return Codes";
s.text = "When dealing with customer returns, the entrée system will not only keep your accounts receivable organized, but also your inventory.
Because there are different reasons for customers returning product, there are different situations in which you may place that product back into your inventory to be sold again.
You can define up to 26 of your own “Return Codes” and how the system should handle the inventory when they are brought back to the warehouse.
A “Return Code” is entered for each item on a Credit Memo, and you can later analyze this information by means of entrée’s “Credit Register” report.
Below is a table showing the default “Return Codes” which are programmed into entrée:
Code Name | Return Code | Description | Returned to Inventory |
| A | | No |
| B | | No |
| C | | No |
| | D | | Item was ordered but not loaded onto the truck. | | No |
| | E | | Customer refused the item for some reason. | | Yes |
| | F | | Item was on the truck but was not ordered by the customer. | | Yes |
| | G | | Probably belonged to someone else's order. | | Yes |
| | H | | Service charge or pricing error. | | No |
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s.src = "orders/O-14 Change Log.jpg";
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s.title = "Change History Log";
s.text = "In the fast paced world of a food distributor, sometimes more than one person is involved with the entry and editing of a customer’s order. Then when there are issues with an order, it is helpful to see exactly who was involved and when.
The entrée system will track each user that makes changes to a customer’s order, along with the date and time that the change was made.
The invoice edit process includes a feature, where by clicking on the 'Revision Letter' value (or hit 'Shift-F7') on the keyboard, the “Change History Log” will pop-up and display a list of all of the prior changes to that invoice.
Currently the Change History Log displays:
Revision LetterRevision NumberDate ChangedTime ChangedName of the person who made the change";
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s.src = "ar/AR-1 Cash Receipts entry.jpg";
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s.title = "Cash Receipts";
s.text = "The importance of your Accounts Receivable to your company’s bottom line as well as the tools to help you collect past due amounts were given high priority in the design of our software. After all, what good is it to have outstanding sales, but then have issues with customers paying for their purchases?
Everything from easy to read statements for your customers, to the tools to help your office and sales staff in this process are included.
Our easy to use cash receipt process will speed your office staff in entering payments from your customers while ensuring that information is accurate.
Some of entrée's Accounts Receivable features include:
Define a customer’s payment terms, credit limit, payment days and discount.
Cash Receipts entry includes a “smart” option to further speed the entry of payments, applications of credits, etc.
Invoices have the option to print the calculated 'Payment Due Date' for the specific invoice based on the customers terms.
Invoices have the option to print the customer’s open invoices, which can act as an accounts receivable statement, as well as help your drivers collect past due invoices.
Credit Holds can be enforced either automatically or manually to prevent new sales to seriously past due accounts.
Statements can be generated to print, fax or email your customers open invoices and payments, in a variety of formats.
A customer’s open invoices can be easily viewed via a mouse click in key areas of entrée, such as invoice creation.";
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s.src = "ar/AR-2 Auto Credit Hold.jpg";
s.link = "ar/AR-2 Auto Credit Hold.jpg";
s.title = "Auto Credit Hold";
s.text = "entrée can automatically monitor a customer's account and place them on credit hold if they fall behind in payments or reach a specified maximum balance.
Invoices, credit memos, sales orders and quotations cannot be generated or edited for customers that are on credit hold unless a supervisor password is provided.
entrée will automatically remove the customer from Auto Credit Hold when :
1. The customer makes a payment bringing their past due invoices within the specified parameters.
2. The customer makes a payment bringing them under the maximum balance allowed.
3. The Auto Credit Hold parameters are adjusted.
The Auto Credit Hold parameters include:
The “Maximum Days Old” an invoice can be past due.
The maximum balance a customer can have via the “High Credit Amount ($)”.
";
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s.src = "ar/AR-3 Credit Hold Queue.jpg";
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s.title = "Credit Hold Queue";
s.text = "Currently there are three basic ways by which a customer may be placed on “Credit Hold” by entrée:
1. The 'Credit Hold' option on their account has been manually enabled.
2. The customer has exceeded their 'Maximum Days Old' limit.
3. The customer has exceeded their 'High Credit Amount' limit.
Normally if any one of these conditions is true then entrée will refuse to accept any new orders for that customer. However, enabling the “Credit Hold Option” option allows you to take an entirely different approach to the situation.
Rather than outright rejecting a new order from a customer with a credit issue, this feature allows the order to be entered into the system but flagged as being 'on hold'.
Once an order has been placed 'on hold' by this entrée feature it must explicitly be accepted or declined. This is done by using the 'Credit Hold Queue Management' utility.
Although anyone can be given access to this utility to view the orders on Credit Hold, only someone designated as a 'Credit Manager' or a 'Credit Supervisor' can update the status of an order and either approve or deny the order.
Each of your customers can be assigned to a specific 'Credit Manager', either by direct assignment in Customer Maintenance or by assignment to the customer's salesperson in Salesperson Maintenance. This assignment is optional and any customer who cannot be connected to a specific Credit Manager is considered a 'house account'. This assignment can be valuable if you have more than one person handling customer credit issues. When a customer is assigned to a specific Credit Manager then only that one person will normally see any of that customer's Credit Hold orders. For 'house' accounts, all Credit Managers will see all 'house account' orders on Credit Hold.";
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s.src = "ar/AR-4 Credit Card processing.jpg";
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s.title = "Credit Card Processing";
s.text = "If you are like most distributors, getting customers to pay their outstanding accounts receivable can be one of your biggest headaches.
Instead of chasing customers for their payments and requiring your drivers to collect cash from the customer, offering to accept credit cards can be an ideal solution.
The credit card processing features of entrée allow you to accept credit cards and effortlessly have the funds transferred into your bank account.
You can accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Discover with the entrée system at very reasonable processing rates.
There are no credit card terminals to purchase, as this feature is built into the entrée software. It uses the latest technology via the internet, so that transactions are instantaneous and the funds are put into your bank account within 24 hours.";
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s.src = "purchasing/Purchase-1 Vendor File.jpg";
s.link = "purchasing/Purchase-1 Vendor File.jpg";
s.title = "Vendors";
s.text = "The features of entrée’s Purchasing system are sure to make your buyers happy. Everything from the process of determining what should be ordered and from whom to creating a purchase order to receiving the items and having your costs and pricing properly updated is a quick and easy process. And all the important information that your buyers need, including past sales, inventory turns, seasonal information, pallet configurations, lead times, freight rates and more… are always at their fingertips.
Vendor file maintenance is a core component of entrée’s purchasing and accounts payable features.
Here you can define key information for each of your vendors, including:
Address, phone, contact info for both the vendor’s main address as well as their remittance address.Payment terms.General Ledger Expense and Control accounts for purchases.Assigned Buyer.Broker information.Purchase history.";
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s.src = "purchasing/Purchase-2 Vendor Grid.jpg";
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s.title = "Vendor Grid";
s.text = "The Inventory system in entrée allows you to define a “Primary Vendor” per item, as well as an unlimited amount of additional vendors you may purchase that item from.
For each vendor you purchase an item from, entrée will track:
The vendor’s item number.A sequence number which can be used for sorting items on the purchase order.The “Last Cost” when the item was purchased from the vendor.The “Last Date” you purchased the item from the vendor.
The entrée purchasing system includes the option to automatically generate purchase orders. To accomplish this properly, you need to define a “Purchase Multiple” and “APO Weeks”.
The “Purchase Multiple” field is used to determine how much product should be ordered when automatically generating purchase orders. It represents the number of weeks worth of product that should be ordered in this field. The value for the number of weeks can be determined by dividing the number of days by 7.
The “APO Weeks” field is used to determine if the item should be ordered when automatically generating purchase orders. It represents the number of weeks worth of product to keep on hand at all times. The value for the number of weeks can be determined by dividing the number of days by 7. The supply time or the amount of time that it takes to receive product after the order has been placed should also be factored in when entering the APO weeks.
You can define “Special Reorder Definitions” which allow you to enter up to four alternate order points and reorder quantities driven by a date range. This information is ideal for seasonal, holiday or other factors which change the amount of the item needed for different times of the year.";
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s.src = "purchasing/Purchase-3 Create Purchase Order.jpg";
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s.title = "Purchase Order";
s.text = "The ability to quickly and easily create and change Purchase Orders is an important part of the entrée system.
When creating Purchase Orders, your buyers can further speed the process along by using our “Batch Edit Mode”. This will have all of the items that have been assigned to the vendor appear on an easy to use screen, where just the quantities required are edited.
Information regarding pallet configurations, past purchase history, sales history, last purchase date, last cost, cubic feet, etc., are all a mouse click away.
Once the purchase order is complete, it can be directly faxed or emailed to the vendor.";
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s.src = "purchasing/Purchase-4 Supplemental PO.jpg";
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s.title = "Supplemental Purchase Order";
s.text = "After a purchase order has been created, your buyer will be prompted to attach a “Supplemental Purchase Order”. Note that you can assign up to 26 “Supplemental Purchase Orders” to one master purchase order.
Supplemental Purchase Orders are used to track additional expenses incurred when acquiring the product, such as freight or import tariffs.
This allows you to properly distribute these additional costs, such as freight, among the items on purchase order. The distribution method for these additional costs can be based on “Units”, “Weight” or “Value” as follows:
Selecting “Units” will distribute the charges equally based on the total number of units purchased. Selecting “Weight” will distribute the charges equally based on the total weight of all products purchased. Selecting “Value” will distribute the charges equally based on the Extended Amount of all products purchased. ";
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s.src = "purchasing/Purchase-5 Receive by Purchase Order.jpg";
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s.title = "Receiving Purchase Orders";
s.text = "You have many options when it comes to properly receiving the items which were ordered on a purchase order. This includes the use of our “entrée.UPC” software module, which allows for scanning of the incoming inventory by your warehouse staff.
When a purchase order is received and closed (meaning no further product is expected to arrive from the vendor), entrée will compare the quantity and/or weight received along with the purchase cost of each item to the current cost and on hand levels of the item. If there are any items that have a changed cost, cost and/or prices may be updated during the receipt process. The person receiving the purchase order has many options as to how cost and pricing can be handled, if at all. Your preferred method of updating costs and pricing can also be pre-defined, so that this part of the process can be completed quickly and easily.";
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s.title = "Auto Generate Purchase Orders";
s.text = "The entrée system provides the ability to automatically generate purchase orders. Advanced formulas are used to be sure that you never over order, while also considering other factors such as pallet configurations to ensure proper quantities and price breaks.
There are two methods of automatically generating purchase orders:
From Selected Invoices When purchase orders are generated from selected invoices, entrée will review all the customer invoices for the period you specify and order an appropriate quantity for each item to restore the inventory to a level of zero. If you have adequate inventory on a particular item, then no order will be generated for that item. This method is ideal for distributors that follow a “just-in-time” inventory method, and primarily acquire product only as their customer order it. In this instance, the driver will first pick up the items needed to fill customer orders from one or more food distributors, and then make his deliveries.From Past Sales
When purchase orders are generated from past sales, entrée will review each item, analyze its past usage, and determine whether or not to generate an order and theamount. When an item is reviewed, entrée will calculate the supply time (how many weeks your current inventory will last), the vendor’s normal lead time for delivery and compares it to the number of weeks of product that you want to keep before ordering more. Detailed formulas which explain how each step of this process works, are documented in our User Guide.";
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s.src = "commissions/Comm-1 Salesperson Commission Grid.jpg";
s.link = "commissions/Comm-1 Salesperson Commission Grid.jpg";
s.title = "Commission Grid";
s.text = "The entrée system provides a powerful rules based commission system to ensure your salespeople and brokers are paid their proper commission at the proper time.
You can track commissions and base them off:Gross profit percent.Invoice sales dollars.Customer Payment Date (which includes the option of not calculating a commission until the customer pays the invoice as well as decreasing their commission amount by the length of time it takes the customer to pay).Special commissions per item including exceptions and overrides.Commission formulas that can be based off the sales amount or gross profit.Detailed reports including a breakdown of each item on a customer’s invoice and the commission earned.
The screen to your left shows the salesperson commission grid. This grid provides a sliding scale that defines the rules for how commissions should be paid.
Standard commissions are defined in the commission grid by creating a table based on the total dollar amount of each invoice and the percentage of gross profit made on that sale. This is accomplished by first defining invoice and gross profit breakpoints. Finally, commission percentages are entered into the grid of the commission table.";
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s.src = "commissions/Comm-2 Commission Setup.jpg";
s.link = "commissions/Comm-2 Commission Setup.jpg";
s.title = "Commission Setup";
s.text = "Each salesperson and broker in entrée can be configured to be paid commissions based on the gross profit of the invoice or the total sale amount.
entrée can also track quotas and deduct a percentage of commission for overdue accounts.
The purpose in deducting a percentage of the commission if the customer is late in paying their invoice, is to motivate the salesperson to help collect the moneys owed as soon as possible so that they can collect a higher commission. ";
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s.src = "commissions/Comm-3 Item Commission Exceptions.jpg";
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s.title = "Commission Exceptions";
s.text = "As if it isn't enough dealing with all your customers' needs, properly organizing and compensating your sales team presents its own challenges. Your goal is to compensate your salespeople fairly for their efforts.
However, because of the wide variety of items food distributors carry and the special purchase arrangements behind many of them, tracking them all can be a difficult task. Without the aid of a powerful commission system, it would involve a full time job to track commission information and then calculate commissions based upon sales.
As the name implies, the purpose of the Item Commission Exception file is to maintain the exceptions to the rule when paying commissions.
Commission exceptions, can be based on individual items, or an entire class of items.
When entrée calculates the commission to be paid, it will first check to see if there is a commission exception defined and handle it accordingly.";
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s.src = "commissions/Comm-4 Commission Report Summary.jpg";
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s.title = "Reports";
s.text = "The entrée system will generate comprehensive reports to show exactly how commissions were calculated.
Summary commission reports (as pictured to the left) can be easily produced, as well as more detailed reports showing the breakdown of each item on a customer’s invoice and the commission earned.";
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s.title = "General";
s.text = "The entrée system provides hundreds of reports with the ability to customize each report to the exact layout that suits your needs best. You can specify columns, sort orders, filters, insert your company logo, change fonts, save configurations for re-use, email reports, export to different file formats and so much more.
This part of entrée is called “Re3”, which is our third generation of an NECS designed reporting engine.
The image to the left shows the “General” tab of the Re3 report engine, which provides:The selection of a date range.The selection of a pre-defined style.The selection of generating from “current”, “history” or “both” data files.The selection of a cost method for gross profit formulas using either Real, Landed, Base or Market cost.The selection of generating based of billing addresses or customer shipping addresses.The ability to exclude information such as non-printed invoices, inactive customers, inactive items, etc.The selection of sorting and grouping options specific to the type of report being generated.";
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s.text = "The image to the left shows the “Filters” tab of the Re3 report engine, which provides:The means to reduce the amount of data that is returned on the reports. The ability to specify both include filters and exclude filters. Each report type has all possible filter options displayed with an easy search mechanism to help you find exactly what you need.";
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s.text = "The image to the left shows the “Layout” tab of the Re3 report engine.
This tab is used for configuring which data fields (columns) will appear on the report. Report grouping and sorting can also be configured on the layout page.
Some features of the “Layout” tab include:The list box along the left edge of this tab contains all of the available data columns you can print for the report. In some instances there are more than 100 columns available.Data columns from the list box can be dragged to the print column area. This is the staging area for the data columns that will be printed on the report. Within the print columns area there are 3 Data Row lists. You can place unlimited columns into each of these areas.Up to 4 data columns can be used for grouping on the report. Totals and averages will print beneath each grouping, if applicable.The data columns specified in the Sorted By list box will determine how the data records will be sorted both on the report and within the report groups, if applicable.";
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s.text = "The “Appearance” tab is used to configure the fonts that should be used on the report as well as the report margins and custom header text.
Some features of the “Appearance” tab include:The ability to set visual options, such as column shading, double spacing and using a double column format.The ability to include your company’s logo on the report.The ability to add up to 3 lines of custom header text.The ability to specify the page margins and orientation (Landscape or Portrait).The ability to pick the font for different areas of the report.";
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s.text = "The “Output” tab is where you can specify a location the report can be sent to. This could be the printer, a preview to the monitor, or saved to a file in one of many popular formats.
Current formats which reports can be exported to, include:Adobe Acrobat PDFHTML documentRTF (Rich Text Format)ExcelDelimited TextGIF, JPG or Bitmap
The ability to email any report is also included. Note the following email features:The ability to optionally modify the subject, body, and recipient list for the emailed report.Some reports such as Order Forms and Price Lists may be 'batch' emailed. This allows you to generate these reports at a scheduled point during the week or month and have them automatically emailed to your customers with the proper customer specific information.";
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s.title = "Configure";
s.text = "The “Configure” tab is used to save or recall a report configuration. In addition, report configurations may also be imported, exported, and locked from this page.
Every user of entrée can define any configuration to be their default configuration for the report.
A popular request from entrée users was the ability to “lock” a report configuration to prevent someone from accidentally overwriting an important configuration. The locking mechanism for the report configurations require the user to enter a password for the configuration. Whenever a user subsequently attempts to save or delete a locked configuration, they must first provide the lock password. ";
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