Sales Automation: For a Leaner, Meaner and Greener Sales Force

Ai2 has 25 years experience creating mobile sales applications for the wholesale distribution industry, especially those distributors with a sales force that works directly with customers.  Inside the office, a distributor has a wealth of information about the customers, their specialized pricing, the products they purchase, and the rest of the product catalog. 

Reps need access to all of that information when outside your four walls because when on a sales call, uninformed is unprepared.  Our solutions help your salespeople stay informed so they can increase sales, improve the customer relationship and spend less time on administrative tasks.  You also need a solution that works with the back office system you're already using.

If you're using a pen and paper approach to order entry, you stand to make the biggest gains by automating your salespeople with modern technology.  As you've experienced, order entry errors result in returns, credits, and customer dissatisfaction. 

Telxons and MSIs were a great solution twenty years ago, but today they just don't cut it for distributors who need to stay competitive.  Among their setbacks:

• Communication errors resulting in invalid item numbers and lost sales opportunities
• Lack of availability of telephones that work with acoustic coupler modems
• Required review of orders by customer service for accuracy
• Lack of important business information at the point of order, such as:
  
  • Item descriptions
  • What's on special, discontinued, changed price or is out of stock
  • Customer purchase history
  • Customer Accounts Receivable information
  • Order confirmations
  • Product return/credit info
  • Payment collection info

As a distributor, you must concentrate on improving sales while cutting operational costs.  Automating your sales team will have an immediate and positive effect on your company's bottom line.  If you use solutions from Ai2, you will achieve these main benefits:

• Improve sales representative productivity and help save each outside rep a minimum of one hour a day
• Increase sales by ensuring that items are in stock and available to ship
• Increase line item penetration by adding items to an order that are on special or promotion

Read about a company that made huge strides with Ai2 sales force automation.

Sales Force Automation Solutions

ProSel® is a robust sales force automation app for the iPad. It holds your complete catalog and item information, the ability to build orders fast and make compelling presentations to customers.  No more paper, no more flyers, no more A/R binder.  Requires almost no training. Syncs with your home database in seconds using ProSync.  Available on the App Store.
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POET® is the next generation of sales order entry solutions for laptop.  Flexible and powerful with a fast and easy search, POET gives you the opportunity to customize the sales experience. Order entry, returns, margin management and speedy bid/quote preparation are yours. Emulates your pricing to the penny, within the program.
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POW® is a handheld sales automation solution for distributors who prefer the form factor of a handheld.  Scan bar codes and shelf tags, send orders in wirelessly and receive reminders about specials and promotions.  POW also lets you automate return and payment collection paperwork.
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Check out the Ai2 Handheld Hardware Guide