Unsurprisingly , distributors who supply major retailer such as supermarket and other chain stores with bloom and works , want to do so as efficiently as potential . Venlo - based Flower Power is one such allocator . The fellowship face after the in - store presentment , layout and the supplying of ego - service of process display in no fewer than 150 German supermarket . The design was to do forth with much of the repetitive manual labour and mounds of paperwork take in the process .
Flower Power was won over by the latest mobile solution offered by Alfa Pro - IT . A few week ago , handwritten notebooks and paper invoices became a affair of the past . " We have issued all our drivers with tablets on which they can now register everything , ’ explains managing manager Wim Linssen . ‘ This can normally done online , so the details can be processed directly via our admin package . With digital invoice now being send at the contact of a key , physical handling of the paperwork has been consigned to story . "
That must bring through a expectant bargain of time and abridge costs ? " You ’re not jest ! " , Wim reacts . " Not to advert no longer having to record unsold Cartesian product which are returned . The gadget driver simply enters the selective information on the pill there and then . Previously all that would have all been done manually . Back in the office , admin would have had to sort out all the paperwork and that would take a peachy spate of sentence . Not only that , the system was more susceptible to error , so we no longer have that problem . "
All - round conceptOf class , it requires investiture . But Flower Power is confident that the costs of the exercise will be quickly recouped . " And that ’s not just because of more effective work practices , " explains Wim . " It also suit in well with our plan to show Flower Power as an all - round digital conception . A program on which consumers can also witness extra information and inspiration via the QR code on our products , for instance . It ’s simple and interactive . What ’s more , the system also provide us to extract ‘ big data point ’ which will aid us to o.k. tune our own buying method . Needless to say , it ’s led to vast savings in costs . "
Easy - to - useWhen we spoke to them , the Alfa Pro - IT mobile solution had been up and running at Flower Power for just 3 weeks . " Of course , everyone has to get used to the new manner of working , " Wim explains . " In that respect we ’re delighted the system is so easy to use . Various functionalities have been especially develop for our own organization . In the beginning , we might make out up against something that does n’t quite work in practice . We feed that information back and it gets adapted . So in next to no meter , you have a system that meets all your want ! "
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