VAI ROI Benefits
Companies typically achieve significant return on Investment (ROI) from VAI’s ERP system through operational cost reductions of 15–25% and revenue increases of 10–20%.
Most companies recoup their investment within 12–24 months by automating the high-volume, thin-margin “order-to-cash” cycle. While financial gains are the primary focus, “soft” benefits like enhanced customer retention and scalability—the ability to grow revenue without adding headcount—often provide the most long-term strategic value.
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S2K Suggested Purchasing | Supply & Demand Planning
VAI S2K Enterprise provides one of the most advanced purchasing programs available today. This dynamic application provides a myriad of tools to help minimize the burdensome tasks associated with manual purchasing by automating your demand planning, purchasing, and ordering process to optimize buying power across different product lines and multiple warehouses. Powerful formulas analyze historical and forecasted usage for each item; seasonal trends, market demand, and vendor lead times to provide suggested purchase orders for each vendor. Erratic demand is flagged for review and can be exponentially smoothed into demand formulas. Items can be grouped into buy-lines for purchase analysis by product group to take advantage of special pricing and discounts. Buy-line inquiries allow users to compare purchasing requirements with vendor targets. Estimated carrying costs are displayed for items that are necessary to meet the vendor target. These advanced purchasing tools maximize your buyers’ efficiency, enabling them to spend more time on profit-oriented tasks such as reducing dead stock inventory, increasing customer fill rates, negotiating pricing with suppliers, and reviewing product mix.
Chuck Koeberlein
Corporate Purchasing Manager,
Fertilizer Dealer Supply
S2K Accounts Receivable | Credit and Collections
When using VAI’s Accounts Receivable application you receive a number of benefits that go beyond cash flow and customer data management. This application offers you an up-to-date aged receivables listing, continually identifying delinquent accounts and assisting your credit department in maintaining control.
The powerful AR Manager Dashboard assists users with credit and collection activities by providing drill down access to all customer data. Invoices and Statements can be faxed or emailed at the touch of a key, and detailed notes provide company wide information on collection activities.
S2K Warehouse Management | Warehouse Automation
Automating your warehouse can provide a wide range of benefits ranging from space savings, lower building costs, improved productivity, more efficient material flow, less people, and safer operations, to reductions in inventory, reduced operational costs, better ROI, and lower lifecycle costs.
VAI S2K Warehouse Management Software (WMS) will allow you to monitor warehouse activities in real-time, minimizing entry errors, and help you measure the efficiency of your warehouse employees. This powerful application provides radio frequency processing for inventory receiving, movement and replenishments, product put-aways, order picking, shipment verification, cycle counting, and much more.
Mina Cox
Chief Operating Officer,
Specialty Products Co.
S2K Mobile | Proof of Delivery
For companies that deliver with their own trucks, VAI’s mobile Proof-of-Delivery (POD) replaces the process of capturing signatures with a clean efficient paperless process to confirm the delivery of merchandise. Drivers can use barcode scanning to verify they are unloading the correct items, which minimizes delivery errors and reduces the need for expensive redeliveries. Digital signatures and photo documentation of delivered (or damaged) goods provide indisputable proof, minimizing customer disputes. Integration with the back-office ERP speeds up invoicing and credit creation, reducing the billing cycle.
Daniel Beyer
IT Manager,
Barnwell House of Tires
S2K Order Processing | eCommerce & Mobile
For many businesses, integrating eCommerce with mobile access extends the business beyond traditional office hours and physical constraints, creating a 24/7 digital storefront that improves both backend efficiency and front-end sales performance. eCommerce applications suggest upsell and cross-sell opportunities during the order process, increasing the total value of each transaction.
Mobile ordering tools can accelerate the time to purchase by up to 20% by enabling instant decision-making and onsite order capture for field sales reps. 83% of B2B buyers prefer digital ordering over manual methods. Providing mobile self-service portals for reordering and invoice tracking reduces the burden on call centers and customer service staff.
David Jones
Vice President, e-Commerce and Digital,
Compass Health Brands
CRM & Marketing | Customer Relationship Management
To drive sales and provide elite service, supply chain teams require instant access to products and customer insights. By aligning real-time data—like inventory levels, pricing, and sales history—with a client’s specific needs, reps can deliver a more compelling value proposition. S2K Sales Force CRM bridges this gap by merging contact management with live ERP data. This allows users to manage the entire lifecycle of quotes, orders, and returns while monitoring AR balances and shipping statuses. With deep visibility into customer behavior, your team can pivot quickly to resolve issues and capture new opportunities.
For even greater results, integrate S2K Marketing Cloud to automate email marketing campaigns with automated workflows, personalize customer communication, and implement data-driven insights to boost engagement and optimize your marketing ROI.
Donnette Smith
Brand Manager Digital Channels
Hardware & Lumber
S2K Analytics | Business Intelligence
In today’s highly competitive market it is imperative that you constantly evaluate the success of the activities in which your business engages in. S2K Analytics software provides your organization with both high-level monitoring that focuses on the overall performance of the enterprise, and low-level monitoring that focuses on departmental metrics such as: Inventory Turns and GMROI, Customer Fill Rates, Forecasted Demand vs Actual, Warehouse Performance, Customer Performance, and Vendor Performance.
With S2K Analytics, you can review and create powerful dashboards and reports that will allow you to easily identify anomalies that could turn into significant business issues, identify and analyze opportunities and trends, communicate goals consistently with employees, and monitor performance against targets. Access to accurate information has never been more vital to grow revenue, protect margins, and improve profitability.
Stephen Johnson
Business Applications Manager,
Mariani Packing Company
