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Food Distribution Software for the Full Supply Chain

Between receiving, warehousing, order picking, dispatch and delivery, your food distribution business has more moving parts than most. Our enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse and logistics software are powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and connect on one platform, so you get full visibility and maintain control across every step in the supply chain.

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The Best Food Distribution Software Brought Together on AppCentral

When your ERP, warehouse and transportation systems run in silos, you can't establish the real-time data visibility necessary to make the best decisions. Aptean AppCentral connects them on one platform and arms your team with powerful AI tools, so data and handoffs move automatically between systems and everyone stays in the know. That means you can:

  • See inventory, orders and shipments in one place

  • Catch delays before they reach the customer

  • Query your business data in plain language

  • Automate processes with specialized AI agents

  • Free up your team to manage exceptions instead of chasing data

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See Our Food Distribution Solutions In Action

Explore how our purpose-built solutions can help you manage every part of your food distribution process—from order to delivery.

Capabilities

Capabilities Built for Every Corner of Your Company

Running a food distribution business takes a lot more than moving goods from A to B. There are contracts, cold storage, vehicle maintenance and loads of data to manage, too. The capabilities below span ERP, warehouse and transportation systems, giving you specific tools for each piece with a "single pane of glass" to keep tabs on them all.

Order Management

Food distributors receive orders in a variety of formats, from those submitted through EDI or a web portal to those that come by phone call or email to your sales department. Capture, allocate and fulfill each one consistently while maintaining the flexibility to split cases, swap in substitutions and hold backorders as necessary.

Traceability

Maintain serial number and lot traceability for every item from receiving to delivery, supporting compliance and enabling you to pinpoint the exact pallets and customers affected the moment a recall notice arrives. That means no more uncertainty and no more pulling product you didn't need to.

Pricing Management

Customer-specific contracts, volume tiers, promotional deals and rebate agreements pile up fast when you're serving hundreds of accounts. Manage pricing rules and rebate calculations in one place with flexible tools. Now profitability stays intact no matter how complex the deal sheet gets.

Inventory Management

Rotate stock automatically with first expired first out (FEFO) rules and keep inventory accuracy tight across every dock, aisle and cold room. You get fewer write-offs, fewer short-picks and a warehouse team that always knows what's actually on the shelf.

Cold Chain Logistics

Keeping temperature-sensitive product in its safe range is an unforgiving balancing act. A momentary deviation can mean a write-off. With purpose-built tools, you can track conditions from storage through transit, giving you the cold chain visibility to prove product arrived in optimal condition.

Fleet and Route Management

Build routes that account for delivery windows, customer requirements, vehicle capacity and driver hours, then adjust on the fly when a load changes. Combine that functionality with fleet maintenance scheduling, and you can keep trucks on the road and routes running at their leanest.

Reporting and Analytics

Evaluate margin by account, fill rate by warehouse, on-time performance by route and more—when your ERP, WMS and TMS data lives in one place, those numbers are a few clicks or quick query away instead of a request that sits in IT's queue. Make your best decisions with visibility into data analytics and real-time insights.

Invoicing and Payments

Transmit invoices digitally, apply early payment terms and reconcile payments against orders without re-keying anything. Benefit from improved cash flow, fewer disputes with trading partners and a clean audit trail across every transaction.

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Common Questions From Food Distributors Like You

Still deciding if food distribution software is right for your business? Here are answers to the questions we hear most from wholesale distributors, foodservice suppliers and everyone in between.

Food distribution software supports any business moving food and beverage products from its suppliers further along in the supply chain. That includes:

  • Wholesale distributors supplying retailers and grocers

  • Food service distributors serving restaurants and institutional kitchens

  • Food manufacturers with their own distribution network and fleet

  • Third-party logistics providers and importers handling food freight

Each of our solutions is built to accommodate a wide variety of food distributors. Regardless of your segment or operating model, you can expect results.

Aptean's food service and wholesale food distribution software delivers meaningful benefits such as:

  • Better inventory accuracy

  • Airtight traceability

  • Flexibility for customer-specific pricing

  • Streamlined logistics operations

  • Better customer satisfaction

  • Reduced costs

And because Aptean's software is preintegrated and offered on the AppCentral platform, you can make your best decisions with real-time data and AI assistance.

Thanks to its basis in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, our food distribution ERP software is cloud-based, secure and always updated to the latest version. Those familiar with the Office suite will also find the interface intuitive and familiar. Any of our many specialized modules can be accessed with a few clicks, giving you purpose-built food and beverage functionality.

Because they all share the AppCentral platform—which uses a single secure data lake for all your software with a layer of AI to help you orchestrate operations—all of Aptean's software connects at that level. Data updates ripple across all of your systems in real time, and processes that run across multiple solutions can be automated or otherwise guided by AI agents. You get a single source of truth and full confidence in your technology.

Around the world, businesses like yours rely on Aptean food distribution solutions. Take George's, a wholesale poultry distributor serving restaurant, retail and food service accounts. The organization uses Paragon Route 360 to manage deliveries to more than 250 locations, saving $31,000 a year in fuel costs and cutting fleet size by 10%.

U.S.-based GA Foods, which handles both manufacturing and 25,000 home deliveries a week, grew revenue 90% after implementing Aptean Food & Beverage ERP. And UK bakery retailer Greggs puts our routing software to work serving 1,800 shops, improving vehicle utilization by more than 30% and removing almost 900 miles a week from its routes.

Experience Next-Gen Food Distribution Software

Reach out or request a free demo to see how Aptean's food distribution software can fit your operation.