Software for specialty and ethnic distribution.
Thousands of items from many suppliers, a price list per supplier and warehouse, a search that finds the item a rep half-remembers, and a storefront buyers can use in their own language.
Specialty & ethnic
Three things that are true every day.
A long catalogThousands of items, many of them slow, and a search that has to be faster than a rep's memory.
Many suppliers for one itemThe same item from three suppliers at three costs, and the buyer needs to see them side by side.
Buyers who read another language firstRestaurant and market buyers order faster, and more accurately, in their own language.
Built in
What APFoodz does for specialty distributors.
Each of these is in the product today, not a roadmap item.
Supplier price listsEach supplier's agreed prices, used automatically when a purchase order is built.How it works →
Supplier comparisonItems with two or more suppliers side by side, with each supplier's scorecard.How it works →
Forgiving searchSearch that finds the item from a partial name or a misspelled brand.How it works →
Five storefront languagesEnglish, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.How it works →
Slow-mover visibilitySKU velocity reports show what is not moving and what it is worth.How it works →
Margins by tierDifferent markups for different customer tiers, from one price decision.How it works →
If this sounds like you
Four situations we built for.
Bring one of these to the demo and we will walk it through on your own items and customers.
- Finding which of twelve thousand items are not moving, and what they are worth on the shelf.
- A search that returns the right item when a rep types part of a brand name.
- A Korean grocery buyer ordering in Korean while your team works in English.
- Comparing what three suppliers charge for the same item before building the PO.
The parts you will use most
Where specialty distributors spend their day in APFoodz.
Purchasing & receivingPOs by supplier or item, suggested reorders, receiving and three-way match.Purchasing & receiving →
Ordering in five languagesThe storefront in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Portuguese.Ordering in five languages →
Customer pricing & dealsDaily approved prices, tiers, deals and pricing groups, decided once and used everywhere.Customer pricing & deals →
Reports & dashboardsA home dashboard of what needs you today, and explorers for every question.Reports & dashboards →
Further reading
- API-first ERP: why integrations should be freeYour ERP holds your data. Getting it in and out should take a key and a developer, not a quote for a custom project.
- Building a tech stack: ERP, accounting and e-commerceThe three core systems a distributor runs, when to combine them, when to keep them apart, and how to keep them in sync.
- Cloud vs on-premise ERP for food distributorsWhat really changes between cloud and on-premise ERP, what to compare before you choose, and where on-premise still fits.
See it with your own data.
A working session with your customers, your items and your route days. Thirty minutes.