Could someone propose a solution to handle Fresh Vegetables and Fruits?

[Former Member]

There is something called Food Terminal. You may look at some pictures to get an idea of what is traded here - http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2007/10/inside_the_ontario_food_terminal/

I could sell SAP B1 to a prospect if someone could help me put together a solution. In essence this distrubtor picks up fresh fruits and vegetables as cases, cartons, boxes, eaches etc, but nothing is barcoded. This prospect is losing money, he does not know if some items were distributed and not invoiced, or if few boxes fell down and got destroyed or for that matter stolen etc.

Can someone experienced propose a suitable solution to handle this?

a) Is there an elegant iPAD based web application that has nice pictures drawn like vegetables, fruits they are click and enter a weight or boxes or some unit that gets transofrmed into daily purchase orders on SAP B1?

b) Any audio that we can talk into and gets converted into SAP B1 purchase records?

At the end of the day, he wants to reconcile the inventory and invoices etc. I believe, if the purchase data is input then rest of the things are easy. He sure is frustrated with lack of control he has now as he does not see the big picture.

What do you suggest? how to handle it?

Please provide me with an add on and integration software that would be necessary to put it all together.

Thanks a lot compatriots! I would love to win this business. I will be meeting this guy on March 1st. I could put together a demo if it is feasible.

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Another useful link to understand the nature of business.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xegqso_from-the-farmer-to-your-fridge_school

Edited by: Syed Aleem on Feb 8, 2011 3:49 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Syed,

In ref. to the Retail Market SAP Business One is suitable in the back administration operations its is excellent and for the sales there needs to be POS and Barcode management which can be implemented. For similiar example, from my past in India companies like "Reliance Fresh" ( A fresh fruit strategy like concordia ) implemented SAP B1 across all the stores and Sony World.

SAP Business One is a proven product in Retail sector too even biggies like Pidilite and Sony World use SAP business One and many more that i am not aware.

From my suggestion you can refer the link below for an add-on POS and Retail floor barcoding.

[http://www.citixsys.com/solutions/retail/ivend/]

Regards,

Rakesh N

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Hi Rakesh, suggest me something for the procurement side. Our prospect sends his trucks to the food terminal to pick up various types of vegetables, fruits and flower baskets, boxes eaches etc. What type of handsend or terminal should he take. Again, it is for purchasing and not for selling. Suggest me some cool device they can carry and they can input purchased items and it should update the SAP B1 backend.

Once purchased, the trucks go and drop it off to retail outlets, so, this particular prospect does not need a POS.

Thank you.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Syed,

If POS is not needed then fine. The handsets or terminals try the below that will best suit. you can store the data and then load this into your system.

IPAD is also a good option for a cool device, the latest in Mobile solution with SAP B1.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK3rAWgodY] you can have SAP connect on the go..

[http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/BusinessProductandServices/BarCodeScanning/BarCode+Scanners]

[http://www.intermec.com/products/computers/handheld_computers/index.aspx]

[http://lxe.com]

Regards,

Rakesh n

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Wow, Rakesh that link you provided really has some cool hands free devices, so the pickers can use both their hands and yet get the data in with their body mount type of devices http://lxe.com/uploadedFiles/pdf/Products/Hands-FreeBrochureUS.pdf .

My only question now is, the data entered by the pickers at say food terminal will stay in the scanner I suppose, but how will it get linked and downloaded into SAP B1 backend (either through mobile wireless or wired once back at the office). We can't just go pick any scanner right? it needs to have some add-on type of programming done for SAP B1 support right? What do you say? Thanks again.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Syed,

I'm you will need to check out the data you need to input into SAP B1 like item code, quantity and other specs of UoM and see how it can be linked and the compatibility yes all can be tweaked in a little configuration by add-on is necessary that becomes more technical, yes the data stored can be loaded into the system when it is arrived to the store or tot the place for sale from procurement, i have done this in a huse warehouse like the guss store the stock and then the data is moved over to SAP Business One.

Check out this link below,

[http://en.sap.info/radio-chipped-yogurt-pots/3305]

Regards,

Rakesh N

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rakesh, it's all good. I will take it from here. I will dig more into it, this weekend. Preparing for a different demo for this Friday.

Thank you very much, really appreciate your findings.