POW®

With POW®  salespeople can easily access all the information they need to select products, evaluate pricing options, provide up-sell and cross-sell suggestions, emphasize promotions, review inventory availability and check customer accounts receivable status—all from a durable handheld mobile computer.

A sales rep can also look at specific customer information like order history, ship-to, bill-to and delivery, information, credit status, payment terms, price history, and product profitability.  Your entire price book is available at any time with accurate prices for each individual customer. 

Scan, point and click with the stylus, write, type, or use the customer's history to generate an order.  POW® empowers your sales team to utilize a more consultative approach that will enable them to increase line item penetration in every account. 

Distributors in today's competitive marketplace need provide selling tools to their sales force that are intuitive to use in order to increase sales and improve productivity.  POW® delivers these tools to accomplish the following important business requirements to improve a variety of business processes inside your organization:

• Generate orders
• Automate the returns / credit process
• Track cash collection payments
• Provide customer specific pricing
• Track pre-book and show orders
• Coordination of out of stock and discontinued items
• Identify promotional and special products
• Understand and evaluate customer buying history

POW®: Your total solution!

The POW® solution manages all the processes required to generate and transmit orders to your host computer for processing.  In addition, POW® keeps the mobile computer updated with the latest business information being generated by your host computer.  The POW® solution includes these important components to meet these sales force automation requirements;

• POW® client application software running on the mobile computer
• Ai2 Communication Server (ACS) Software

Your sales reps can create and transmit orders from the field to the ACS system.  These orders can then be sent directly to your host computer for immediate processing or held in the ACS and processed at your convenience.  Salespeople can receive updated business information throughout the day including order confirmations, reports and file updates.  Communication between the POW® client and ACS system can be accomplished in a variety of methods including telephone dial up through a 56 KBS modem connection, local area network (LAN), wireless local area network (WLAN) and wide area network (WAN) from cellular communication carriers like AT&T / Cingular, Verizon, Altell, and Sprint.  All communications are managed and controlled through the Ai2 Communication Server (ACS) software that operates on a PC based communication server.  The ACS system is the bridge to your host process computer system used to operate your business.