entrée
6 Reviews 5/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★An ERP system for food distribution companies of all sizes, featuring inventory management with catch weight tracking, WMS, purchasing, EDI, reporting, and more.
Product Overview
NECS entrée is designed specifically for the food distribution industry. It offers deep domain expertise in areas such as catchweight management, extremely flexible and comprehensive pricing and costing options, traceability for FSMA 204 compliance, suggested purchasing, reporting and analytics, accounting, multi-channel sales management, online payment processing, and more.Pros
- Offers catchweight tracking, inventory management, salesperson commissions
- Responsive and knowledgeable customer support
- Offers proof of delivery functionality
Cons
- 5 user minimum
- G/L is not real-time
Target Market
Foodservice and wholesale grocery distributors from all segments, including: broadliners, full line, COP, specialty/ethnic foods, importers, processors/cutting where distribution is primary focus, seafood, produce, meat, cheese, poultry, HBA, natural foods, beverages, nutritional products, non-peddle oriented DSD companies (snacks, bakeries, beverage, dairy).Not Recommended For
Industries outside of the wholesale food distribution industry.NECS entrée is an ERP for food service wholesalers and distributors, including full-line and specialized distributors in the meat, seafood, produce, and cheese sectors. It automates and streamlines several critical business functions:
Key Features
- Multichannel Order Processing: Customer service, field sales, EDI, eCommerce, and ordering applications are all available. A customer portal with A/R and online payment processing is also available. An extensive tool set to outfit order takers, order placers, or consultative sales reps.
- Inventory and Catchweight Management: Provides tools for managing perishable and non-perishable inventory with lot tracking compliance. Supports multiple units of measure for those that break cases. It also tracks weight, lots, unit of measure, and other attributes at the UOM level.
- Pricing and Purchasing: Provides comprehensive pricing and costing abilities to adapt to market changes. Create customer-specific pricing formulas to ensure margins at the customer/item level.
Financial Management
- Accounts Receivable: Facilitates effective payment management and collection. The streamlined collection and cash entry process is handled via drivers with proof of delivery or via online payment (entrée.pay). Extensive credit management features, statement production, online digital invoice reproduction with signatures designed to reduce disputes and improve DSO.
- Accounts Payable and General Ledger (entrée.AP & entrée.GL): Oversees payables, expenses, and financial reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Additional Modules
- Commissions and Sales Management (entrée.EOP, entrée.NET, & entrée.Express): Formula-driven sales commissions are automatically calculated regardless of the order source. Extensive sales management tools for customer service, field sales (DSR), and eCommerce users.
- Electronic Data Interchange (entrée.EDI Complete): This is a Full-service EDI offering that facilitates the exchange of critical business documents between trading partners. No in-house EDI experience is needed.
- Document Management and Backup (entrée.DOC & entrée.BAK): Digitizes and organizes business documents to support quick retrieval and safe storage. Pertinent documents are accessible throughout the entrée software modules.
- Operations and Transportation (entrée.WMS & entrée.POD): Warehouse management and proof of delivery combined offer complete FSMA 204 traceability compliance. Android users can scan items to capture weights to record movement throughout the DC and the last mile. Allows for streamlined efficiencies, reduced expiry, enhanced operational visibility, and greater accuracy.
User Experience and Integration
- User-friendly Interfaces: Available on both desktop and mobile devices.
- Integration Capabilities: Integrates with existing business systems and supports remote access, making it adaptable to various business needs.
entrée Pricing & Costing Features:
NECS recognizes that food distributors need to offer flexible pricing to their clients. Pricing features include:
- Special pricing for every customer and every item purchased
- Pricing levels per item with up to 99 levels based on current cost or profit percentage
- Group pricing
- Sale pricing based on multiple pricing scenarios
- Future pricing
- Price matrix definitions for more complex pricing needs
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NECS helped us step into the 21st century with entrée
NECS helped us step into the 21st century with entrée. It gave us an extremely reliable and robust system that also has the flexibility for any specific modifications we have called for. Their tech support is always helpful and just a phone call away. We just recently started with their Electronic Order Pad for the sales staff and wish we had done it years ago.
Latina’s experience using NECS’s entrée has been very positive
Latina’s experience using NECS’s entrée has been very positive for our business. Latina has gone from DOS, V3 and now V4 as both our companies have grown over the years. We have many add-ons as well such as entrée.NET, entrée.EXPRESS and entrée.EOP to name a few, they have all been instrumental in helping us grow as our industry and technology continues to evolve. We have made many modifications of our own to entrée throughout the years and it has always been a pleasure working with the entire staff at NECS, Inc.
The entrée software gives us everything necessary
The entrée software gives us everything that is necessary for our operation. I don’t even need an IT person to run our computers because of the ease-of-use of entrée. More than anything is the excellent support you get from NECS. Our computer software has to do more than it’s ever done before, and for that entrée is the way to go.
I would recommend entrée to other food distributors
I would recommend entrée to other food distributors. We chose NECS because we extensively visited other food distributors that were using it and they were all very satisfied. I couldn’t imagine doing business without it.
Get on board as soon as you can with this software
Get on board as soon as you can with this software. It works well for us and every food distributor that I’ve ever known has nothing but good things to say about NECS. The entrée software definitely modernized our business and made us more efficient and productive.
The best software for a food distributor at the most affordable price
The service I get from NECS throughout the years has been excellent. I’ve recommended the entrée software throughout the years to several distributors as the best software for a food distributor at the most affordable price.
