60 AFS Technologies Testimonials

”Pushed by diverse forces such as technological innovations, changing market conditions, and old hardware, we needed to conduct a thorough due diligence process to ensure we selected the best solutions for our needs. We are convinced that AFS Retail Execution was the right fit for us since the people over at AFS know the beverage industry and have a robust solution which supported our long-term strategy.”

“The ability to see the details enables us to act faster to market conditions and make the best choices for the company.”

"AFS™ Sales Agency Management is the operating system that Hatch Chile relies on every day. The Hatch Chile Store provides authentic New Mexico chile products, fresh and flame roasted Hatch Green Chile, and red and green chile powders. I use Sales Agency Management to help me manage order entry processing and invoicing as well as inventory purchasing entry and receiving. I have found these areas to be exceptionally user-friendly and the operations set up by the system have worked very well for us with our almost 200 customers for over five years. I can also maintain our customer’s bill to, ship to, pricing, and promotions information efficiently and reliably using Sales Agency Management. I’m happy to say, it is a simple task to change their profiles and keep their information current. Another significant benefit of using the Sales Agency Management system is the availability of its technical support team they are always courteous and professional while being well-trained and extremely prompt in answering any inquiries sent their way. I feel Sales Agency Management does a great job of meeting the needs of our growing company."

“Many years ago in the old country, one’s ambition and destiny was one’s family trade, the family trade that kept the family alive and a town flourishing. Call it nostalgic or old fashioned, we love that side of our history. We love what we do.”

“I look forward to the fruitful cooperation and we are excited about the new AFS Retail Execution solution as it has brought us amazing new possibilities and business development opportunities.”

“We haven’t really reviewed customers by segments before in terms of core decorating. It’s not much more work, in terms of forecasting; that’s the part of it that is new. It’s a lot quicker to take the forecast temperature. Overall, it is a massive step forward from where we were.”

“It has enabled us to see spend more effectively as it highlighted spend that before was hidden and it turned out was higher then what we first thought. With insights into our data, we can see the impact of changes quickly. It helps us collaborate more effectively with retailers, we can put promotions in and see what is going against it. It has helped the claims reconciliation process and that is a net positive.”

“We have been able to reduce our compliment of business managers from six to five and assign larger portfolios to our team (that’s a $65,000+ savings in salary alone).”

“AdvancePierre has removed inefficient trade spending and has reinvested those dollars into the business for long term growth. The AFS TPM Retail has been a huge contributor to those gains. And, on a personal note, the AFS Technologies solution has enabled me to be true to my word.”

“By improving our delivery service operations, we can better serve our customers, maximize our resources and save the company valuable time and money. Our strategic partnership with AFS is essential to our company growth and expansion and we couldn’t be more impressed with the impact it’s made on our business.”

“For a successful implementation, there must be senior executive sponsorship—the CEO, the CFO or the VP of Sales—that’s driving the need for the system.”

The project has already delivered greater brand awareness, greater visibility and greater demand. It has also meant that we can immediately fulfill that demand.”

“Either way, you need a technology platform that delivers immediate visibility into that critical trade promotion data. Getting our insight from a static spreadsheet several weeks down the road was crippling our ability to drive trade efficiency in both our sales and finance operations.”

“With handheld devices, driver stops are downloaded and available so the driver can bring up a customer’s order, make adjustments if needed and give the customer a clean invoice for accurate payment. This reduces manual calculation errors. It speeds up the whole billing process.”

“If we feel that a deduction is invalid we can challenge it. We have backup at our fingertips and extracting information is incredibly easy. Now that we have the right tools in place, the ease of building a case has enabled the company to react more quickly to incorrect deductions.”