For Immediate Release
Upper Lakes Chooses Ai2's POET Solution For Salespeople
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CHICAGO – July 1, 2011 – Software development firm Ai2 announced today that Upper Lakes Foods of Cloquet, Minnesota, has joined their client family. Upper Lakes will deploy Ai2's POET® solution for mobile salespeople in the foodservice industry.
Upper Lakes needed a new solution for its outside sales force that included order entry, price book browse, superior communication with the host, and every other tool a salesperson needs to be effective in today's marketplace. They found it in Ai2's POET.
"We welcome Upper Lakes to our customer family and we're going to do an excellent job supporting them," said Douglas Katich, CEO for Ai2. "It's a privilege to have Minnesota's largest independent food distributor as our newest client."
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 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.
Upper Lakes Foods was founded in Duluth, Minnesota by Lawrence (Larry) R. Sorensen in 1967. In 1981, they moved from Duluth to their current headquarters in Cloquet, Minnesota. The move allowed them to go from a 7-floor office and warehouse to a single story office and warehouse facility. At the time, they had 65 employees. Today, they have grown to 245 employees and have an additional facility in Northfield, Minnesota. Their sales exceed $170 million. For more information about Upper Lakes, 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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