For Immediate Release
Farm Boy Dumps Old Provider For Ai2
Indiana Distributor Moves To New Notebook Solution
CHICAGO - July 1, 2011 - Software developer Ai2 announced today that Farm Boy Food Service of Evansville, Indiana, will deploy Ai2's POET solution for mobile salespeople. Farmboy previously used a different solution for several years and switched to Ai2 in order to provide a more updated application to its sales team.
Every software solution reaches the end of its efficacy at one point or another, and many companies shop around when they decide to move to another solution. For Farm Boy, the main requirements were more user functionality and better service from their provider. Ai2 says it will help them achieve those goals and more.
"Foodservice companies know that when they go with Ai2, they go with a trusted partner in sales force automation," said Douglas Katich, CEO for Ai2. "They're getting the same advantages that the 'big boys' have, but at a managable price." Katich elaborated that part of the strength of Ai2 is its ability to interface to any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system available today.
POET, an acronym for Portable Order Entry Tool, is an 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 Katich 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.
Farm Boy Food Service is a family-owned food distributor that has been in business more than 50 years. What began in 1952 as a meat packing operation has grown into one of the largest independent food distibutors in the state of Indiana. Today, Farm Boy has 25 refrigerated trucks delivering throughout Southern Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Kentucky. For more about Farm Boy, visit the company's website.
Ai2 (formerly Access International) was founded in 1986 and is 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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