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Jake's Finer Foods Returns to Ai2
Broadline Distributor Chooses Superior Service, Support
CHICAGO – December 22, 2010 – Software development firm Ai2 announced today that Jake's Finer Foods of Houston, TX, has returned to Ai2's client family. Jake's is replacing their current notebook sales force automation solution with Ai2's POET® solution for mobile salespeople.
Jake's opted to return to Ai2 after using Ai2's older OrderWriter solution about a decade ago. "We were sorry to see them go and it's great to have Jake's back. We're going to do a great job for them," said Ray Walsh, Vice President of Sales for Ai2. Walsh said Jake's opted to return to Ai2 after seeing how much progress the Ai2 had made in developing order entry solutions for mobile professionals. Tasks like importing from and exporting data to Microsoft Excel are now automated instead of the older manual processes. "The fact that we are able to deliver a higher level of customer service and support than many distributors are used to—that's also a big factor," said Walsh.
POET, an acronym for Portable Order Entry Tool, is a Windows-based application that allows a mobile sales representative to handle orders, returns, accounting information, margin management and more. The majority of Ai2’s clients are in foodservice, but Walsh stressed that POET is a powerful solution for all types of distributors. POET® runs on Windows on almost any notebook, netbook or pen tablet PC and is fully compatible with Windows 7.
In May of 1946, Jake's founder, Kervin E. Jacob (Jake), started delivering eggs door-to-door to household customers, and since then, the company's history has been one of consistently delivering quality food, great value and excellent service, according to its website. The company, still family-owned, has grown from eggs to a full-line foodservice distributor, and its customers now include foodservice companies, independent restaurants, multi-unit restaurants and retail foodservices companies in Texas and western parts of Louisiana. For more on Jake's, visit the company's website.
Ai2 (formerly Access International) is a 24-year old software firm headquartered in downtown Chicago. Their applications are used by over 75,000 users each day to capture over 40 billion dollars in sales each year. Ai2 improves the order entry process for some of the nation’s largest distributors in foodservice, convenience store, grocery, beverage, hardware, medical, beauty and industrial supply. For more information about Ai2, visit www.ai2.com.
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