Company Overview
AFS Technologies (AFS) is a leading global provider of solutions purpose-built for consumer goods companies. We are committed to efficiencies in trade spend, retail execution and supply chain. With 30 years of experience, we serve more than 1,300 customers of all sizes, in more than 50 countries, with innovative and configurable solutions that are proven to optimize your potential with automated processes, improved productivity and rapid time to value.
AFS Bakers Dozen is a comprehensive ERP/Direct Store Delivery (DSD) application which is capable of configuring a solution for any and all bakery types, addressing specific business challenges such as Safe Quality Food (SQF) compliance, waste by forecasting, end-to-end lot tracking, production planning, scheduling, and reconciliation.
AFS™ G2 is an easy-to-use, flexible data analytics solution that is purpose-built for the business user in the consumer goods industry. With more than 20 dashboards, more than 50 solution tabs and more than 100 supported KPIs, AFS G2 is powerful enough for the most discriminating BI user and easy enough for any user in the organization to access and analyze data with close to zero latency.
When integrated with other AFS solutions, G2 provides context-rich insights based on your solution’s data as well as integrated third-party data. This is achieved with pre-packaged KPIs and analytics that are based on best practices developed by working with hundreds of consumer goods companies. G2 is unique in offering Management by Exception functionality, which automatically alerts management to urgent business situations based on data deviations that violate or are trending to violate defined thresholds in G2 along with providing resolution alternatives.
AFS offers a comprehensive integration approach designed to create synergies between multiple application types and data sources. Best of breed integration enables purpose-built applications designed specifically for your environment to operate seamlessly along with your generalized enterprise systems. It is designed to help you get the most out of your existing assets and add new capabilities that support various critical business processes such as sharing of data with partners, tapping into your ERP system or easily adding additional AFS products. This advanced integration backbone can be implemented quickly with minimum IT support.
AFS’s POP System is a cloud-based retail execution solution that helps your sales and marketing teams sell more by enhancing their ability to execute and win where it matters most: at the point-of-purchase. Consisting of Web-based and mobile tools, the POP system is designed to be a breeze to use and help your sales team define objectives, plan, execute, monitor, collaborate and learn. It's retail execution as you haven't experienced it before: powerful yet uncharacteristically easy to use – both for people in the field as well as in the office.
AFS Retail Execution is a retail execution and direct store delivery solution. AFS RE/DSD is much more than a single software product: Is a comprehensive set of solutions to complement your application landscape, integrating into it seamlessly, using cutting-edge technologies and state-of-the-art processes that ensure fast, painless implementations, high productivity and ROI and data availability from the first minute. With AFS RE/DSD you can serve all your channels through a single point of execution and administration, sharing common master data and a single integration source with the ability to deploy differentiated guided selling/merchandising activities at your convenience, optimizing your execution in a way that works both in your regular territories and your delivery routes.
AFS Sales Agency Management is a flexible, scalable sales management solution for small, mid-sized and national retail and foodservice sales agency organizations. It offers robust functionality covering all aspects of sales, pricing, promotions, invoicing, commission, inventory and reporting.
Exceedra Trade Promotion Management gives users the right set of capabilities designed with today’s best practices in integrated planning and revenue management, including TPM, TPO, Post Event Analysis and Customer Business Planning, all integrated into a flexible modular solution.
Ignition Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is a comprehensive software suite that enables superior results across critical business processes such as route creation/selling and loading/delivery, along with reconciliation of all route activities. Business processes related to pre-sales, deliveries, van sales, inventory management, route accounting and settlement are both streamlined and better integrated. Ignition DSD helps to build the perfect store picture at each retail location by supporting merchandising activities for the traditional trade/direct store delivery channel. With Ignition by AFS DSD, you can boost your operational efficiencies and maximize customer service while reducing costs and increasing your revenue. Modernized through the latest technologies, the Ignition DSD suite provides a robust set of features and functions that provide both the flexibility and configurability to support multiple business processes and user scenarios. The application’s interface design is intuitive, thereby reducing user training and support efforts. As a state-of-the-art platform, AFS DSD ensures reliability and scalability across the most demanding scenarios, enabling accelerated business growth in both current as well as new markets.
Ignition ERP provides an advanced, purpose-built solution for all back-end processing, production, deal management, procurement, financials, and master data management. Ignition ERP streamlines with automation, and its single database architecture seamlessly integrates with other core Ignition modules to provide an unparalleled solution for distribution & processing companies.
Ignition Order Management System (OMS) is a comprehensive suite of solutions that drives your sales strategies. It is an omni channel suite with purpose-built applications running on a single database for all channels and form factors. Whether on a desktop, tablet or smartphone, using Apple iOS, Windows or Android, your users will be able to benefit from the advanced mobility that Ignition OMS delivers.
Ignition POD is a mobile application used in the field to track a product’s activity from warehouse to customer delivery. POD supports just-in-time electronic delivery confirmation including signature captures, photos, and GPS coordinates. It also tracks truck inventory on a real-time basis as well as providing a level of customer account information that enables your personnel to make fast and precise deliveries. Companies that deliver on paper are missing the key advantages of real-time communication and automation. With today’s strict standards for track and trace, extending the automated processes beyond the warehouse to the time of delivery is the next logical step. Knowing the right case was delivered to the right stop at the right time is imperative to protect your customers and your brand as well as to maintain compliance.
Ignition WMS is a warehouse management system. Ignition WMS can help reduce costs and increase razor-thin margins. Use WMS to maximize staff productivity, manage inventory effectively, and comply with food safety regulations. Ignition WMS provides true visibility into every facet of your operation. As a fully scalable solution that enables operations of all sizes—including businesses with many warehouses—Ignition WMS will ensure that you benefit from increased productivity, inventory accuracy, traceability, improved inventory turns, and product visibility. This powerful system will enable your business to work with customers or vendors from different countries by including the flexibility to use different weight and measurement systems.