Ignition by TELUS

Video Overview

Ignition by TELUS offers purpose-built solutions in a fully integrated software platform. This comprehensive, scalable and user-friendly solution package includes everything integral to your business:

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
• Order Management System (OMS)
• Warehouse Management System (WMS)
• Proof of Delivery (POD)
• Direct Store Delivery (DSD)
• Electronic Trading (EDI)
• AG2 Analytics and Business Intelligence
• DATUM GDSN/Master Data Management

Ignition by TELUS not only has the solutions to drive your business, it incorporates the ability to see into and through your business with amazing analytic capabilities. Each module works together in order to drive business results by identifying actionable targets. By using this platform, you can deliver a quick return on investment.

Ignition provides a complete, end-to-end distribution and financial system specifically designed for the distribution and processing industries, utilizing a single database to integrate your company’s business processes across functions in real-time. The fully integrated functionality consolidates disparate, legacy applications and replaces manual processes, improving operational efficiency and increasing profits.

The Ignition system empowers an organization to work from “one version of the truth” resulting in:

• Reduced administrative and operating costs
• The discontinuation of manually tracking data in spreadsheets
• Improved order-to-cash cycle time
• Financial accountability and product traceability
• Increased Margins
• Data availability on-demand and in real-time
• Increased staff productivity
• Decreased investment in inventory

Benefits

Here are the main benefits of each Ignition by TELUS product:

ERP

• The Deals & Rebates module eliminates non-integrated third-party systems while increasing marketing revenue and reducing claims processing and deal maintenance costs
• Pricing ?exibility: From the way you re?ect costs, to the way you generate sheltered income, Ignition’s proven methods calculate costs, pads and pricing at the customer/item combination.
• Ignition ERP has proven to help companies grow sales and reduce inventory while improving and automating processes

OMS

• Multi-channel order management for your sales team (Remote and Internal members), your B2B and your B2C customer channels. Empowering you with the solutions that address the prerequisites of food distribution.
• Increase your visibility and management into prospecting, customer management and price management by lifting your visibility to a 360 perspective
• Providing detailed product information from the GS1/GDSN using DATUM to drives sales at the actual decision point. Product knowledge is empowering as well as transformational for your company

WMS

• Lot traceability, including system generated receiving lots and tracking attributes to the order/ product/lot for food safety compliance like country of origin and harvest locations
• Load planning tool enables visibility for the truck layout and pallet building assignments prior to releasing orders to the warehouse and drag & drop exception handling
• Ability to do all operations from the warehouse with mobile scanning devices, voice units and tablets to provide a truly mobile operation

POD

• Automate every element of delivery: Automate payment processing; eliminate manual cash reconciliation, real time integration to ERP/WMS system
• Trace each delivery’s location and history: Track using scanned case-level delivery intelligence that includes time, date, location stamping, and lot and date code information
• Better data integrity using a digital format that reduces human error or lost documentation from manual processes and re-keying

DSD

• Increased sales and delivery productivity by 25-50% with integrated and automated processes
• Diminished customer disputes, chargebacks, and collection issues by up to 50-75% with Proof of Delivery
• Reduced inventory shrink and loss by up to 20-40% with process visibility, accountability, and control of all cash and inventory transactions

G2

• Combined with other software solutions and third-party data sources, you’ll get one version of the truth to ensure consistency throughout your organization. One version of the truth is the foundation of the Ignition approach to deliver to you, a digital partner that supports industry best practices
• Management by Exception (MBE) is a feature that monitors your data for changes beyond a pre-set range allowing immediate intervention. Users are noti?ed when a deviation has occurred
• Features like Pivot View will enable you to quickly summarize data and detect trends that you might not otherwise recognize

EDI

• Full-Service EDI solution eliminates the need for in-house EDI expertise
• Extensive data translation, archiving, and communications options

DATUM

• Makes GDSN data such as nutritional content, allergens and pictures consumable within your Sales and eCommerce solution
• Provides primary management of attributes that your systems do not support
• Support both Publisher and Recipient of GDSN data
• Unifies and standardizes data from repositories across the enterprise

Features

• Extensive pricing and costing options
• Integrated deal management and General Ledger
• Suggested purchasing
• Production, scheduling, costing and yield management
• Multiple sales channels
• Agnostic device and operating systems
• Enhanced customer dependency
• Margin management
• Increased inventory accuracy and turns
• Product rotation and code date management
• Labor management
• Cycle count management
• Support for voice, tablets, mobile devices
• Real-time visibility
• Clean invoice at delivery and A/R
• Lot, weight, and code date traceability at the unit level
• Extensive route analysis
• Collections and payment processing in the field
• Multi-platform support
• Proof of delivery
• Real-time traffic information
• Media capture and viewing
• Asset tracking
• Increase PO accuracy
• Strengthen partnerships
• Seamless interface
• User-friendly reports
• Extensive data translation
• Predictive analytics
• Management by Exception (MBE)
• KPIs integrated into G2 Analytics
• Business Intelligence application
• Streamlined access
• Unify and standardize data
• Synchronize product information
• Primary management of attributes
• Product notifications
• Sales spec sheets