Intervolve’s End-to-End Software for Beverage Distributors Delivers Efficiencies and Wide User Adoption
RALEIGH, N.C.--Intervolve®, Inc., the pioneer in providing on demand supply chain software using web and mobile technologies, today announced that R.H. Barringer Distributing Co., Inc. has successfully deployed both DistributionSuite and Route Accounting System software across its entire beverage distribution operations. Barringer looked to Intervolve to dramatically improve efficiencies in its warehouse, sales, and delivery functions; provide a seamless, easy-to-manage solution; and gain company-wide acceptance of new on demand technologies that give it a competitive advantage.
R.H. Barringer Distributing Co., Inc. distributes Anheuser-Busch products throughout the 15-county area of North Carolina that includes the Piedmont/Triad area. The company has distribution centers in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, 215 employees, annual beer distribution of over almost 8 million cases per year, and a hybrid distribution environment of 14 peddle, 41 pre-sell, and 43 delivery routes. Prior to the Intervolve implementation, they used Pocket Mobility for sales order entry; WCS, a VIP system, for route accounting; and LoadOptimizer for pallet building.
DistributionSuite™ provides real-time market information to help beverage wholesalers plan, execute, measure, and adjust to dynamic market conditions and gain competitive advantage. Route Accounting System (RAS) integrates sales order management inventory management, financial accounting, reconciliations, and route maintenance into a single, real-time, enterprise-wide mobile computing application to help reduce operating costs.
R.H. Barringer attributes the successful, simultaneous implementation of DistributionSuite and Route Accounting System across both warehouses to the strength of Intervolve’s products, its methodology, and its team. Rick Craig, Vice President of Operations at R.H. Barringer Distributing Co., Inc., commented, “Intervolve has a rare combination of skills, talent, and experience and an amazing understanding of our business. Their methodology is unbelievably strong, extremely vigorous, and highly successful – and they bring best practices to the table. We did a full discovery, roadmap, and gap analysis up front, which increased our confidence in a simultaneous implementation. We didn’t want to have multiple systems working at the same time. That would have been unmanageable.”
Prior to implementing the Intervolve solutions, R.H. Barringer used three several different tools to manage its warehouse, sales, and delivery operations. Realizing the benefits of having a seamless technology solution from the salesperson through the warehouse, rather than several individual products from different vendors, and a solution built on current on demand technologies, R.H. Barringer selected Intervolve as its end-to-end solution provider.
Chris Newton, Intervolve Chairman and CEO, said, “Right from the start, it was clear that R.H. Barringer saw the advantage of using the best technology for their business. We take pride making technology easy to use and adopt. By continuously improving our software and processes, our solutions can be immediately usable and accepted by non-technical users. With the R.H. Barringer implementation, we focused on automating routine workloads and helped them realize immediate results. From all reports, this implementation has been a great success.”
Rick Craig continued, “The Intervolve solutions are incredibly powerful but usable by the standard people in our warehouse, office, and out in the trade. We rely on the system to carry the routine workload, while giving us immediate access to live sales and inventory information. Intervolve has also given us advanced functionality like support for our warehouse pick-to-order environment which has reduced our warehouse paperwork and processing time by about 85%. The system is receiving glowing reviews from our employees and is allowing us to service our customers better. We now have a seamless end-to-end solution that has dramatically improved the whole environment.”
Rick Craig added, “The DistributionSuite capabilities are stunningly good and a no brainer to purchase. Sales reporting is accurate, efficient, and on demand. Prior to Intervolve, sales reports could only be run by one or two people, and it was time intensive and error prone. We needed a better process, and we got it. We are very happy.”
About Intervolve, Inc.
Raleigh, NC-based Intervolve, Inc. provides on demand supply chain software that helps companies automate the collection, analysis, and dissemination of sales and distribution information to reduce operating costs and gain competitive advantage. With its innovative packaged and custom solutions that utilize mobile and web technologies, Intervolve continues to be the software company of choice for the Beverage and overall Consumer Goods markets. For more information, please visit www.intervolve.com or call 1.919.828.5727.
