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West Pico Selects POW from Ai2
Imported Food Distributor Replaces Older Handhelds
CHICAGO - June 7, 2011 - Software developer Ai2 announced today that West Pico Foods of Vernon, CA will replace a legacy handheld system with Ai2's POW solution. POW is a mobile application designed for sales representatives in a variety of distribution segments.
"I welcome West Pico to our customer family. They're going to love the way our applications help them improve the sales process," said Douglas Katich, CEO for Ai2. Katich mentioned that Ai2's relationship with Aspen Systems, Inc. helped West Pico choose Ai2. "We integrate with any back office system and we enjoy working with the folks at Aspen."
Food and grocery distributors generate a large amount of sales data each day. From orders to invoices to customer pricing and specials, a sales rep in today's environment needs to access this information quickly to take advantage of limited time with each customer. Ai2's POW application is designed to organize this information, regularly sync with the host computer at headquarters, and speed up the order entry process while eliminating paperwork.
POW, an acronym for Pocket OrderWriter, is an application for mobile sales professionals that allows them to handle orders, returns, bar code scanning, accounting information, planning, customer specific pricing and other mission critical functions. POW runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and above, as well as CE.NET.
Ai2 (formerly Access International) is a 25-year old software firm headquartered in downtown Chicago. Their applications are used by over 75,000 users each day to capture over 75 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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