Additional Capabilities for VAI ERP

(EDI) Electronic Data Interchange

VAI partners with leading EDI service based solutions to provide a complete solution for you and your trading partners. Our integrated EDI solutions allow you to quickly connect your trading partners using AS2, SFTP, FTPS, APIs, secure portal and more. Our team of EDI specialists can help you eliminate manual integration flows by automating and orchestrating every API, EDI, and non-EDI transaction.

e‑Business Applications

S2K eBusiness is built on the latest portal technology, which provides your customers with a highly personalized and engaging website experience, containing the applications and information they need. Using the latest responsive design techniques, the website is optimized for any device, making it easy for your customers to do business with your company from their desktop or mobile device. They can easily educate themselves about an offering or product, its features, pricing, and availability. They can quickly execute transactions across applications and access enterprise data, all in real-time.

Mobile Applications

With the rapid expansion of mobile devices, enterprises everywhere are being dramatically impacted by the new wave of mobile technology. VAI’s mobile solutions turn ordinary smartphones into powerful business tools that can help you improve efficiencies, enhance customer service, and increase sales. S2K Mobile solutions are actual applications that are downloaded and installed on your mobile device, rather than being rendered within a browser. They are specifically designed for smaller handheld displays and a touch-screen interface and can easily access the native functions of the mobile device, such as the camera. These powerful solutions provide file synchronization directly with S2K Enterprise or your current ERP system, and give users off-line access to content when a network/wireless connection in unavailable.

Mobile Applications Include:

• Mobile Ordering
• Route Sales
• Proof of Delivery (POD)
• Warehouse Management
• Field Service

Analytics

In today’s highly competitive market, it is imperative that you constantly evaluate the success of the activities in which your business engages. S2K Analytics software — powered by AI-ready analytics and intelligent automation — provides your organization with both high-level monitoring that focuses on the overall performance of the enterprise, and low-level monitoring that focuses on departmental metrics such as:

• Inventory Turns and GMROI

• Customer Fill Rates

• Forecasted Demand vs Actual

• Picking and Shipping Performance

• Receiving and Put-Away Performance

• Vendor Performance

With S2K Analytics, you can create powerful dashboards and reports that will allow you to easily identify anomalies that could turn into significant business issues, identify and analyze opportunities and trends, communicate goals consistently with employees, and monitor performance against targets. Access to accurate information has never been more vital to grow revenue, protect margins, and improve profitability. Whether your business is wholesale distribution, durable goods, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, distribution, manufacturing, retail, or service, S2K Analytics gives everyone in your value chain the answers they need to excel in a highly volatile environment. AI-driven insights are exposed through the S2K Smart Center interface alongside operational dashboards, so users can access analytics without leaving the system of record.

S2K Smart Center with AI

S2K Smart Center is a unified, role-based operational homepage through which users access the system. Smart Center surfaces the information each user needs based on role — counter clerk, branch manager, service dispatcher, outside sales rep, finance — and eliminates the screen-hopping that legacy ERP requires. For executives, Smart Center surfaces operational KPIs in one view rather than across a dozen reports, enabling faster decision cycles in volatile market conditions. 

New portal based inquires for Customer, Item, Vendor, Customer Orders, and Purchase Orders, provide a new modern look to these core inquiries. New searching capabilities with ​“saved view” options, enhanced grids with more data, embedded analytics, and embedded AI that turn data into a ​“system of intelligence,” provide sales teams with proactive tools that drive revenue and improve efficiency.  Release 6.3 will also be the foundation for our exciting new AI Virtual Assistant. This assistant will leverage natural language processing and machine learning and is designed to streamline daily inquiries and enhance productivity. 

Service & Repair

In a service-oriented society, you need a field service software tool to keep your business on top. VAI’s S2K Enterprise for Service & Repair application meets that need. This integrated service management software provides you with detailed strategies and solutions to help you meet clients’ objectives. For HVAC distributors and plumbing wholesalers running combined distribution-plus-service operations, Service & Repair is integrated with distribution, warehouse, counter, and billing on a single database — eliminating the duplicate data entry and inventory inaccuracy created by separate field service systems.

Retail

Combining an intuitive, user-friendly retail application with powerful enterprise functionality, S2K Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) software is the ideal solution for taking both walk-in and on-account sales. For quick cash transactions, S2K Retail POS provides a simple touch screen interface, quick bar code scanning, and integrated payment options to accelerate the checkout process. During each transaction, users can check stock access across multiple locations, view complementary items or substitutions, capture serial number data for warranties, and view detailed item specifications and images. Extensive security options track management price overrides, and limit user functions.

Rental

S2K Enterprise Rental Management software integrates with S2K Financial Management, S2K Distribution Management, S2K Retail Management, S2K Warehouse Management, and S2K Service & Repair Management applications to provide a complete rental solution. S2K Rental software provides reservations and allocations management based on differing contract durations and customer requests. From the reservation’s dashboard, users can search for equipment by product category, and check availability in the rental calendar. Advanced pricing methods determine when and how charging is generated, including flexibility on excess hour charges, and charging by the hour, day, week, month, and year. The sale or return of consumables can be managed alongside rental products, and product service and repair including the ability to trigger maintenance activity based on rental status, clock hours, or other service units is also available. Detailed rental history and profitability inquiries and reports are available for easy access and review. With S2K’s Rental Management software, you can track equipment availability, maintenance and repair, utilization, and ROI.