The Companion Suite offers exclusive features to improve the distribution of your alcoholic beverages.
Management of containers and instructions
Management of freebies and volume programs
Management of multiple and complex taxes
Pallet management
DSD
Direct Store Delivery solution and route accounting run on rugged computers or mobile phones
Optimize the activities of your distributors or your delivery people on the road. The productivity and income from the sale of your alcoholic products will be maximized through management options tailored to your industry. With Companion software you provide your mobile workforce with modern and easy-to-use tools to increase their efficiency.
Truck inspection and odometer capture
Loading the truck and adjusting the inventory
Management of delivery sequences
Viewing notes and messages from the office
Management of good and bad returns with reason codes
Collection of payments by credit card, cash, check
Quick printing of the final invoice including the capture of signatures, stamp, proof of delivery, DEX UCS
Entering shelf / backstore inventories and taking in-store orders
Balancing the truck inventory
Reconciliation of payments
Unloading the truck
End of day report
In the alcoholic beverage industry, delivery is particularly demanding due to the need to minimize the time products spend in the supply chain, not to mention the fierce competition your industry faces.
Opting for the computerization of your processes or for an upgrade of your DSD solution will help you better position your business to allow it to optimize processes and remain competitive.
Our DSD solution reminds the driver of the activities to prioritize, and the messages from the office before leaving the warehouse and after each of his deliveries will help him efficiently go through every part of his day.
Alcoholic products industries excel at bringing their products to the market and serving their customers. However, it is not uncommon for these steps to be accomplished by relying on already overworked accounting and support staff to perform manual checks. So they have to go through a lot of documents, often order by order, to ensure that the product delivered and the records that accompany the returns match the money that was collected and the invoices that were generated.
An automated DSD system therefore allows the administrative staff of alcoholic beverage companies to concentrate exclusively on activities with higher added value, such as the management of the day’s routes, which present a gap that must be reconciled.
The DSD offers an interesting ROI to manufacturers and/or distributors of alcoholic products since it allows for better management of orders and routes. As the central visibility of sales and field operations is improved, it can aid in route optimization calculations offering the potential to save time and fuel costs.
Return on investment can also be generated by your alcoholic beverages business’ ability to serve a customer more efficiently as well as the ability to devote more time to sales or prospecting activities.
Ultimately, automated and smarter controls translate to more accurate deliveries with fewer returns, resulting in better customer retention and consistent, if not enhanced, income streams.
Our Packages
Choose the package that best suits your business needs and those of your delivery staff. Our software suites are designed to support your growth.
Quick Implementation
Basic
With this preconfigured solution, depending on your industry, your mobile workforce will be ready to bill your customers in less than 28 days.
Flexible Implementation
Professional
Use the quick implementation and add some extra features (DEX, EDI, GPS).
Customized implementation
Business
Work with our project managers to configure our application according to your needs, your mode of operation, your types of users and your ERP.
Connects with all types of accounting or ERP software.
Our solutions offer more than traditional ERP data. Benefit from our powerful solutions and gain richer analytics on the information gathered in the field.
Quickbooks | Quickbooks online | Sage 50, 300 AccPac, X3 | Sage 50 | Sage X3 | SAP B1, ECC, S4 | ORACLE | MS Dynamics NAV, Business Central, GP | Infor | Acomba |
Additional solutions to maximize the efficiency of your delivery of bakery products to your various points of sale!
SFA-CRM
CIS-Companion® Rep
A modern application to help manage the activities of representatives or merchandisers.
Companion® SKU store
A B2B web application to allow your customers to place orders directly integrated to your Companion Office.
Discover why thousands of users on the road opted for CIS Group’s Companion® software solutions!
Groupe Galland
For our accounting, we put our trust in AdminExpress to make our accounting processes more efficient. Whether it is for accounts receivable or payable, asset management or the handling of accounting entries, AdminExpress by CIS Group offers a simple, quick and efficient solution. With its integrated, intuitive search tools, it is simple to search and analyze the data and history and produce the various financial statements. Being able to easily navigate from one fiscal year to another and between companies in the group allows us to efficiently prepare analyses and comparative reports.
Financial Controller, Groupe Galland
Polar Beverages
I truly have enjoyed working with you on the Polar Project.
You are very knowledgeable with the product and the various business requirements, additionally having the unique ability to marry them together.
Director of IT
Groupe Gaudreault
Being a long-standing partner of CIS Group, we appreciate their professionalism and their IT expertise/experience, adapted to our needs in the transport industry. We are using the complete CIS-BUS Suite, which allows us to have an overview of our operations, and transparency in the sharing of information. The commitment of CIS to innovating and making all its suites evolve will allow us to rapidly optimize our operational efficiency, develop better business practices and position ourselves as an innovative player in our field.
President
Browning Harvey Ltd.
Our customers found the SKU store application very user-friendly and they appreciate being able to place their orders with us from anywhere, and at any time!
IT Director
Nutrinor cooperative
We have confidence in the technological experience of CIS Group for the automation of our distribution. We have succeeded in implementing SKU Store, a simple and efficient Web ordering tool that perfectly meets our expectations and those of our customers wishing to get a new purchasing experience.
IT department director, Nutrinor cooperative
Bermudez Group
Bermudez Group has been using Companion Route by CIS Group in all of its operating companies for the last 8 years, as its DSD solution. That solution has worked well for the Group, bringing gains in efficiency, reinforcing its control, and giving a better overview of data and tendencies in its activities.
Group IT Executive
Monument farms Dairy
CIS Group offers innovative solutions to keep our company competitive in an ever-evolving marketplace.
Sales & distribution
Robert Paquette Autobus et Fils inc.
For numerous years, we have been fortunate to be able to rely on the professional and attentive service of CIS Group. Their precious advice and adapted solutions help us from day to day to achieve our corporate goals. We are in a real winning situation with CIS as our information systems partner!
Vice-president, Robert Paquette Autobus et Fils inc.
Reid’s Dairy
The Route Companion is most intuitive in use and allows fast and accurate field data collection.
Sales Director, Reid's Dairy
Sun Media
Reps were quickly getting the most out of their new tools, handling orders and returns quickly and efficiently and automatically transmitting them to the company’s back-end system.
IT Director, Messageries Dynamiques/Sun Media