FOOD TRADE
Thought for Food
The food trade has its own, unique problems and challenges. Perishable goods and strict legal requirements for handling food require precise and high-performance processes. Best before dates must be meticulously monitored in order to prevent capital losses due to expired goods. Deliveries of goods must be tracked on a batch basis to be able to carry out potential recalls in a targeted manner.
The handling of deposit items, empty containers and the return of unused items must be deeply integrated into the logistical processes. The daily delivery of fresh produce must also be tightly coordinated throughout the supply chain. Complex price structures, such as graduated or special prices and the promotions customary in the food trade, must be smoothly incorporated into the quotation and billing process.
And it goes without saying that topics like eCommerce and customer service are playing a decisive role in the business success in the food trade.
Multidata's engineers have combined the great strengths of our business software framework – the extensive functional modules and the exceptional adaptability of our solution to customer and industry needs – and transformed them into real industry advantages for the food retail industry. Flexible article and price management allows complex price structures, whereby an automatic best price determination ensures that a customer always receives the lowest price that can be applied.
Integrated logistics and route planning allow the planning of delivery trips, including product returns, deposit and empty containers. Automated processes and a universal EDI interface ensure high-performance and error-free processes across the entire supply chain. Even short-term deliveries (next day) of fresh produce are no problem for MD-Premium.
The B2B webshop, which is deeply integrated into the ERP module provides you with a straightforward and ready-to-use sales platform, while the self-service customer portal effectively relieves your support team of work and easy their daily workload. Use the Product Information Management (PIM) included in the ERP module to describe and catalog your assortments in any level of detail without having to resort to expensive additional software.
If you are looking for an unwavering companion who will help you overcome the hurdles of the food trade, you have found it in MD-Premium.
Why MD-Premium should be your choice.
- Food trade inside: MD-Premium comes already with extensive functionalities that are tailored to the food sector. Monitoring of best-before dates and batch numbers, deposit management and product returns are just as much a part of the standard as a complete eCommerce platform. The software will be adapted to the unique characteristics of your processes, missing functionality can be added to the system at any time. Your company’s process landscape is strengthened, not bent, and the process quality increases noticeably.
- Digital hub: Whether it's an accounting software, a warehouse scanner, a cash register or an EDIFACT clearinghouse - MD-Premium connects any kind of IT system, retrieves data and provides the corresponding information likewise. Individually designed automations allow processes that involve other IT systems or – via the EDI interface – also business partners to run independently from human interaction. Costly and unmaintainable legacy systems can be integrated directly into MD-Premium, which run as independent business logic extension in the context of our framework and can therefore be retired afterwards.
- Document management included: Integrated document archiving helps you mastering the flood of documents in your business. From the old-fashioned paper document to the electronic ZUGFeRD invoice, every document is analyzed, cataloged and stored in digital form so that it can be searched and found. And – if desired – also audit-proof.
- A promise to the future: Individual adaptations and extensions of our basic software represent by far the greatest added value we can offer a customer. Sustainable protection of these investments over the lifetime of the software is therefore the top priority. MD-Premium ensures that these customizations always work smoothly, even after many system upgrades. With MD-Premium, customer-specific extensions become a sustainably profitable investment, and not a recurring cost trap.
Our Modules
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning
Whether you are a retail or wholesale company, manufacturing or service sector: the flexible ERP module plans your purchasing/sales, your order processing, your warehouse and your production simply and clearly.
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management
Customer birthday, anniversary, quotation preparation or telephone call. Our system reminds you of important appointments and tasks and makes your usual workflows easier. Whether it's sales, marketing or project management – CRM keeps you well informed.
HRM
Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management
Salary management including bonus payments, employee appraisals including KPIs or flexible management of your applicants. Schedule training sessions and other events for your employees. MD-Premium HRM supports you in this.
TAA
Time & Attendance
Time & Attendance
Check attendances and absences, manage vacation requests and resources, automatically determine substitutions and clearly display timesheets – you can do all this and much more with MD-Premium TAA.
GEO
Geo Location Module
Geo Location Module
Visualize geocoded data and easily keep track of planned routes and tours for customer visits. Avoid empty runs for deliveries or sales promotions and reach your destination faster with our intelligent route planner GEO!
DOC
Document Archiving
Document Archiving
Archive files digitally, securely and quickly to find. Route documents to the appropriate people for control and automatic processing at the click of a button, adhering to predefined processes. MD-Premium DOC supports you on your way to a paperless office.
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning
Whether you are a retail or wholesale company, manufacturing or service sector: the flexible ERP module plans your purchasing/sales, your order processing, your warehouse and your production simply and clearly.
CRM
Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management
Customer birthday, anniversary, quotation preparation or telephone call. Our system reminds you of important appointments and tasks and makes your usual workflows easier. Whether it's sales, marketing or project management – CRM keeps you well informed.
HRM
Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management
Salary management including bonus payments, employee appraisals including KPIs or flexible management of your applicants. Schedule training sessions and other events for your employees. MD-Premium HRM supports you in this.
TAA
Time & Attendance
Time & Attendance
Check attendances and absences, manage vacation requests and resources, automatically determine substitutions and clearly display timesheets – you can do all this and much more with MD-Premium TAA.
GEO
Geo Location Module
Geo Location Module
Visualize geocoded data and easily keep track of planned routes and tours for customer visits. Avoid empty runs for deliveries or sales promotions and reach your destination faster with our intelligent route planner GEO!
DOC
Document Archiving
Document Archiving
Archive files digitally, securely and quickly to find. Route documents to the appropriate people for control and automatic processing at the click of a button, adhering to predefined processes. MD-Premium DOC supports you on your way to a paperless office.
In this white paper, you will learn:
- What directly affects the food trade and how MD-Premium can support you.
- The strengths and advantages of the MD-Premium framework, with a focus on the industry.
- How Vierlande GmbH harmonized and optimized processes and data flows across all 14 locations thanks to MD-Premium as part of a consolidation project.
