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A Day in the Life of a Foodservice Manufacturer CFO

by John Nicholas Todd is a CFO for a mid size foodservice manufacturer. He is frustrated! He just asked his Director of Finance to provide him with a report on the dollars and cents impact of raising the price on one of their SKU’s. He simply wanted to know, based on last year’s sales, what the price increase would mean for their bottom-line. It seemed like a simple request on the surface, but the Director of Finance explained to him, that before she could get the numbers to Todd, she needed

posted @ Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:42 PM | Feedback (0)

Answers Systems Vision. . . To be the Premier Software and Services provider in the Foodservice industry

First off, I wanted to say thank you to each and everyone of our our incredible customers. Your continued support of Answers Systems' vision allows our team to serve you each and every day. Serving you, our customers, is the single most important endeavor that we seek to succeed at.

posted @ Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:20 PM | Feedback (0)

Breaking Down TPM Critical Steps - Standardization and Rules of Engagement

Posted by Stacy Jackson Recently I posted about the critical steps in foodservice trade promotion management (TPM). The foundation of those critical steps for any TPM solution is standardization. I pulled the transcript of a webinar about Standardization & Communication in Foodservice Trade Promotion Management presented by Roth Block, COO – Answers Systems and Tom Rector, President – Foodservice University®. This information is too good not to share again - at least in this summary form. To

posted @ Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:27 PM | Feedback (0)

DATELINE: Salesville, USA, somewhere in the 60s or 70’s

Posted by Bud Hilton Some of you may have been there calling on foodservice distributors and operators. If you were, you probably pulled on more “screen doors” than fancy glass or wood corporate doors. The business was basically in the streets. Chain accounts represented less than 30% of manufacturers and distributors volume. Most were even sensitive to that percent growing, out of concern that the potential loss of a big customer may harm their overall volume/profit structure. Distributors,

posted @ Friday, October 02, 2009 4:59 PM | Feedback (0)

A Pending! Why? I Entered a Contract for This!

Posted by Sue Sanford As the Training Manager for the ContractPro solution at Answers Systems, I have seen many contracts created by a Sales Rep/Broker that cannot be used to pay on the claims submitted for that contract. The creator (Sales Rep/Broker) logs into the ContractPro application and finds a pending or learns that their customer has not been paid. What do they do now? Some will go to the pending claim and enter a comment to use the contract they created while others will investigate

posted @ Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:27 AM | Feedback (0)