post by Stacy Jackson
<YAWN> It’s Monday. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and relax. We are going to keep today’s blog simple enough, but it will change your life if you are a foodservice operator! I am running down the top three reasons why a multi-unit foodservice operator should use the
ValuTrak® rebate and compliance management solution from
Answers Systems.
Ready? It’s gonna be simple yet mind-blowing:
1. Less tedium
2. Better info
3. More money
Woo hoo! That’s the way to start the week, right? I am going to go tell the call center to get ready for a flood sales calls and email inquiries. I’ll be right back – don’t go anywhere. . . .
<TICK TOCK TICK TOCK>
Well, what happened?
I’ve been waiting for about ten minutes now. I was standing right beside Linda so I could see her face light up when she received her first exuberant caller ready for “less tedium, better info, and more money.” Instead of excitement and drama, it’s just another Monday on the phones here. Business as usual . Normal calls. Normal inquiries. Normal people.
For those of you skeptical of my claims, here’s the deal explained in less late-night infomercial terms.
Less tedium
Answers Systems and the ValuTrak system provide a total, outsourced solution for multi-unit foodservice operators. Answers Systems provides:
- Data acquisition and mapping
- Verification of eligible purchases against supplier contract terms
- Creation and submission of claims to suppliers
- Receipt and disbursement of funds
You can now unburden your team from this heap of administrative work, and refocus them on more mission-critical projects. Don’t have rebates, just guaranteed pricing? We’ve got things for you, too. Keep reading!
Better info
With the ValuTrak reporting suite, multi-unit operators have insight into unit compliance, analyses of purchases to perform distributor price verification, access to purchase trending reports, etc. Everything you need to know about your programs and their performance is centralized in the ValuTrak online reporting suite where you can run canned reports or manipulate data in the pivot tool.
Some ValuTrak client uses this data to enforce contract compliance among its franchised units. Another client can offer data online to its bases worldwide allowing hundreds of personnel access to essential purchasing metrics for their unit. Other ValuTrak clients use the data to examine their “actual price” versus the distributor guaranteed price to understand distributor pricing compliance.
More Money
If you are a ValuTrak client, you’ve freed your schedule of many administrative tasks and you have access to tons of purchasing data. It’s time to leverage that data to maximize your ROI on those deals as well as identify new rebate opportunities. With the ValuTrak solution, you can:
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Address compliance issues that are preventing you from realizing maximum, eligible rebates (unit compliance issues, distributor pricing compliance issues),
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Improve contract negotiation with powerful and revealing reporting filtered by manufacturer, brand, category, etc., showing items you are purchasing that you do not currently receive a rebate or guaranteed price on,
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Identify and collecting previously unpaid rebates,
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Monitor distributor delivered price and provide information in billing for discrepancies.
One last point on the “money” topic: Answers Systems submits claims to our client’s suppliers on the client’s behalf. We receive 82% of those funds within 60 days or less. So it’s not just more money – it’s more money, more quickly.
OK. Now that you’ve got a bit more explanation, maybe you’ll make that call or send that
email to get your online demonstration, right? But, I’m not going to go back and stand by Linda’s desk. I think I’ve annoyed her enough for one Monday.