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Packaged food and beverage brands

// For food and beverage makers

AI for food and beverage CPG companies, tested on one job first.

Two places to start: retailer and distributor POs into sales orders, or deductions matched to the backup that proves or disproves them. Either one runs as a free AI proof of concept on 20 to 30 old documents, copied, with no access to your ERP, your EDI or any retailer portal.

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Food and beverage proof of conceptThe terms
First job
Retailer POs or deductions, your pick
You send
20 to 30 old documents, after an NDA
We touch
Not your ERP, EDI or retailer portals
Reviewer
The person who knows that desk best, named by the owner
Price
A range before it starts

// Why these two first

Both desks already have an answer key

A food or beverage maker runs two desks on the same few documents every day. Customer service turns purchase orders into sales orders. Accounts receivable works the short payments that come back weeks later. Both have years of history in the inbox and the ERP, and both hold a decision your team already made on every old document.

On the order desk the answer is the sales order that shipped. On the deductions desk it is what your analyst decided: cleared it to a promotion, disputed it, or wrote it off. Your reviewer checks each draft against that decision, one document at a time.

The two jobs feed each other. A PO entered at list price while a promotion was running, or an order that shipped short of what was ordered, tends to come back later as a deduction. We would start with whichever desk carries the bigger backlog.

The big retailers mostly send orders by EDI already, and many send remittances that way too. The proof of concept is aimed at what EDI leaves behind: the regional chain that emails a PDF, the distributor whose deduction backup arrives as a separate email, the remittance line that shows a code and an amount and nothing else.

// How the proof of concept runs

Three steps, before anything is live

  1. Step 01

    Old documents, copied

    After the NDA, you send 20 to 30 old POs or deductions, each with what your team did about it. Nothing connects to your ERP, EDI or portals. Where documents have to stay inside, your reviewer helps us make look-alikes.

  2. Step 02

    Your reviewer decides

    The owner picks the reviewer first. The success criteria get written down and agreed, and you get a price range for the live job before any document moves. Then the reviewer sets our drafts beside your team's own decisions.

  3. Step 03

    A live month after a yes

    About 30 days on new documents. A person approves each sales order or deduction call before it posts or any dispute is sent.

Priced per job, each on its own. A range before the proof of concept, then a fixed price before you sign.

We give you the range on the call, based on how many POs or deductions you handle a month and how many customers send them outside EDI. Monthly support follows the live run.

// Questions

Food and beverage questions

Does this replace our EDI provider?
No. Orders and remittances that arrive by EDI keep flowing the way they do now. The proof of concept is for the documents your team still reads by hand: emailed and PDF POs, portal deduction backup, and remittance codes that need looking up.
Is this a trade promotion management system?
No. It doesn't plan promotions or replace a TPM tool. In the deductions job it reads the promotion agreements you already have, so each deduction can be matched to the deal behind it.
We run a food-industry ERP, not NetSuite or SAP. Does that matter?
Not for the proof of concept, because nothing connects to any system. You send copies or exports. Your ERP comes into it only for the live run, which we talk through on the call.
Our retailer agreements limit what we can share. Can we still test?
Yes. Your reviewer and we can build stand-ins with the same layouts, codes and quirks and the customer names changed. The NDA comes first either way.
Who should be the reviewer?
For orders, whoever runs customer service or order management. For deductions, the person who works them today, often in AR or credit. The owner names them before the proof of concept starts.
Rob Eason

Rob Eason, founder

// Book a call with Rob

Start with your busiest desk.

A 30-minute call with Rob. He will ask what your company makes and what you do there, which desk you would test first, and roughly how many POs or deductions you handle in a month. Send nothing until the NDA is signed.

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