Optimize your Food Distribution business with ERP software built for your industry.
Generic business software doesn’t understand you or your business. We provide NorthScope ERP software and step-by-step guidance for Food Distributors, giving them the tools to build the business they’ve always wanted.
Your time should be spent…
Efficiently Fulfilling Your Orders
Increasing Order Profitability
Proactively Engaging With Your Customers
Effectively Managing Your Inventory
Managing Relationships with 3PL Facilities
Managing Your Vendors and Purchases
Your time shouldn’t be wasted struggling with software that slows you down.
But there’s a problem…
Your system wasn’t designed for your workflow or order volume.
If your sales order system wasn’t designed for your business, it’s costing you time and efficiency. NorthScope streamlines order entry and fulfillment with tools including delivered freight accruals, freight matching, auto-emailing documents, quick drill-thru to customer history, customer specific order templates, automated Brokerage & Rebate accruals, Price List Management, and many more.
You're managing your business with Word and Excel.
If your system wasn’t built for your industry, you’re probably manually managing crucial aspects of your business outside the system. This often means using handwritten documents for order fulfillment and Excel for everything including delivery schedules, Price Lists, and Inventory Management. NorthScope offers robust features rolled into one solution to help you succeed.
You’re unable to easily and accurately measure profit.
NorthScope allows you to manage multiple cost layers for each Product Lot. This includes things like the initial purchase/landed cost, handling costs, and ongoing storage charges. NorthScope also manages order level costs for things like rebates, brokerage, freight, and other accruals allowing you to accurately compute profit margin by Lot, Item, Order, or Customer.
Your system doesn’t help schedule your deliveries.
You don’t have the right visibility to your inventory.
If your system doesn’t provide quick and accurate views of On-hand and Available balances, managing inventory is difficult and without functionality to manage inventory in 3PL Sites, reconciling monthly storage bills is a laborious process. NorthScope provides current and historical inventory balances by warehouse, Item, and Lot. The Lot # maintains the original traceability and recall information and the Warehouse Lot maintains the ID used by the 3PL Site for picking and storage.
You're juggling multiple non-integrated systems.
If you have non-integrated systems for order entry, pricing, costing, brokerage, promotions, inventory, and/or accounting, you’re probably feeling some pain. This requires additional data entry and often forces companies to only record transactions after the fact, rather than using their systems to manage the entire workflow. NorthScope is a fully integrated system designed to help you manage transactions throughout their entire lifecycle.
You don’t have adequate support for your system.
Software vendors may guarantee support beyond implementation, but many vanish after the sale or pass you off to people you’ve never worked with who don’t understand your business. Because we work exclusively in the Food Industry, we not only understand your industry, but we invest in our team to ensure they understand your company.
Your software prevents you from leveraging new technology.
Software built on outdated platforms could be hurting your efficiency or preventing you from utilizing new technology. NorthScope is built on a modern platform that allows you to take advantage of current tools, and it is built exclusively for the Food Industry to ensure you have the tools needed to manage your business.
If you’re experiencing one or more of these problems, NorthScope can help!
How NorthScope Can Help
Sales Order Price List History Inquiry
Optimize your business for profitability.
One of your top priorities is making sure you’re hitting your margins and the only way you can do that is by ensuring your inventory is full of product that’s selling and is selling at the right price. NorthScope combines flexible price lists with robust inventory management and visibility and sales analysis to help you do just that. With sales orders that pull prices from custom price lists and display margins based on the item’s actual cost, you can see exactly how you’re measuring up to your profit goals. Plus, NorthScope allows you to make item substitutions so you don’t lose out on the sale due to out of stock inventory while still maintaining margins.
Manage your customers’ expectations with ease.
You interact with your customers a lot and they rely on you to answer their questions and give them the information they’re looking for – and you need to follow through. As such, your salespeople need access to real-time inventory while on the road and they need the ability to substitute products for out of stock inventory on the fly based on defaults. They also need visibility into order history during order entry as well as robust sales analysis to answer questions on the fly. NorthScope provides all of this and more. The cherry on top? NorthScope lets you configure customer promises and expectations with customer- and customer address-specific: notes, defaults, favorites, substitutions, item numbers, price lists, credit limits and more.
Customer Record View
Complete Inventory Visibility & Control
Get the insight you need to make strategic inventory decisions.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an easy way to look at and evaluate the movement of your inventory and inventory levels? With NorthScope, you can. NorthScope provides detailed visibility into your real-time inventory status that drills down all the way to the orders inventory items sold on so you can make strategic decisions to keep the product that sells and not the product that’s stagnant. You no longer have to be limited by inaccurate inventory balances or a disconnect between your inventory and sales – get complete control over and visibility into your inventory.
Align your business and plan accordingly with integrated orders, production and shipments.
With a high volume of orders coming in each day that are going to multiple different destinations with many different load configurations, you need to be able to manage your process from production through order fulfillment and delivery. NorthScope makes this process simple by providing completely integrated inventory, sales and load management. Instead of relying on tedious manual processes for remembering and fulfilling a customer’s unique request, you can use NorthScope’s order notes or user-defined fields to track any customization you’d like. And, instead of manually allocating ordered product, NorthScope helps you auto-allocate and then, once you’ve allocated your product you can use NorthScope’s mass update functionality to update them all at once instead of order by order. NorthScope was built to help save you time.
Sales Order Shipment
Mass Update
Control how your software supports your business.
You should be able to manage your business the way you want – NorthScope’s user-defined fields let you customize the information you want and require without the cost of customization while custom workflows allow you to determine the steps an order must go through and the unique requirements for each of those steps. Additionally, unlike other software providers, our first priority is understanding the unique needs of your business and helping work through your problems to create solutions. This partnership-focused approach doesn’t end once you’ve gone live with NorthScope, we continuously add new features to our software based on your feedback to make your life easier. That means support for your business needs can be added to the application as a supported feature, we can build new integrations to support applications you’re already using, and more.
Learn how NorthScope can help optimize your Food Distribution business with ERP software built for your industry.
Why NorthScope?
Your job is more than just basic accounting so your ERP software should be too.
- You need a system to manage your transactions from start to finish; not just one for recording transactions after the fact.
- You need visibility to real time inventory balances, within multiple locations, to manage sales and help you make strategic decisions.
- You build orders, schedule pickups & deliveries, and manage freight expenses across multiple Carriers.
- You manage multiple Rebate and/or Brokerage programs.
You don’t just need an ERP system, you need food distribution ERP software that understands your industry and serves as accounting software, food distribution software, inventory software, sales software and more all in one. Read More
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is ERP software?
The ERP in ERP software stands for enterprise resource planning, which means that ERP software is software that helps you manage your various business processes with a single, shared database across multiple functions and business units. With NorthScope, you get one system to manage your GL, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Brokerage, Rebates & Promotions, Sales, Fisherman Accounting, Grower Accounting, and Loads.
Will NorthScope work for my company?
NorthScope was built to serve food businesses specifically in the Alaska Seafood, Wild Seafood, Fruit, Vegetable, & Nut and Aquaculture Processing industries as well as Food Manufacturing and Food Distribution industries. It’s best for small to medium companies requiring as little as 3 NorthScope users to as many as 100+! NorthScope is great for those who have outgrown Quickbooks (or something like it) and some common pain points our customers experienced before switching to NorthScope were: non-integrated systems preventing them from achieving their goals, lost support for the solution they had because it was old and outdated and not maintained, too high of a cost to migrate or upgrade the solution they had, an inability to efficiently acquire new companies with the solution they had, a difficult to use system, and/or never-ending implementations because of a system that wasn’t tailored to their business or wasn’t implemented by a company with expertise in their industry.
What does NorthScope integrate with?
For our current customers, NorthScope has various integrations including EDI, barcode, eLandings, document imaging, scale weight, Microsoft Dynamics GP, trace register, cold storage and more. Additionally, all NorthScope functional areas integrate with each other. We’re constantly improving and adding integrations to NorthScope to offer the best, most efficient solution for our customers so if you don’t see an integration you’d like on this list, it doesn’t mean we can’t or won’t make it happen!
How is NorthScope hosted and accessed?
NorthScope is web-based software that you host based on your preference, whether that’s on a physical server that your company maintains or a cloud server, which can be included with the purchase of NorthScope. Once NorthScope hosting is established, you can access NorthScope from anywhere so long as you have an internet connection and a supported web browser – no individual computer installation necessary!
How many people can use NorthScope at one time?
When you purchase NorthScope you purchase with it as many user licenses as you need and you always have the option of purchasing more licenses as needed. These licenses are concurrent, meaning that you don’t pay for the total number of users but the number of users that are allowed to be logged in at one time. Additionally, any one NorthScope instance can have multiple companies or divisions within it, allowing you to switch between companies without having to log in and out!
How long do NorthScope implementations take and why?
NorthScope implementations average 3-9 months. This is because NorthScope is super configurable in order to give you the control and to avoid custom code (which is too expensive and unnecessary). That means we put a lot of effort into understanding your business and your data to make sure that we get NorthScope setup as best as possible for you to use most efficiently and seamlessly immediately upon go live. Additionally, a lot of software companies only care about selling their solution and moving on to finding their next dollar, but that’s not us. We care about you and your success, which is why we’re thorough in our implementation process in order for NorthScope to help you succeed. And we don’t just stop at NorthScope, we’ll help you improve your business processes along the way, too.
