Carillon ERP for Beverage Distribution

Fully Integrated System to Manage Your Beverage Distribution

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In our global economy, timely and accurate knowledge determines success. You need an ERP software that can keep up. Carillon ERP is highly specialized to meet the unique needs of beverage manufacturers and distributors. In fact, we have beverage industry clients in three countries.

Fully integrated for a 360° view of your business

A fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed to be used by everyone in the organization can be especially important in the beverage distribution industry. We know that you have long lead times for inventory, products with limited shelf-life and constantly changing inventory attributes (vintage, proof, packaging, etc). If purchasing, marketing and sales are not working closely together in a single integrated system, inventory shortages and spoilages can almost be assured.

Improve Inventory Accuracy

Carillon tracks extensive information about items, including proof, vintage and grape varieties, while barcode scanning ensures inventory information is more accurate.

Reduce Costs & Increase Efficiency

Many companies still rely on 3rd party add-ons, manual processes and tedious spreadsheets. Carillon ERP automates many processes to produce more accurate results in a fraction of the time.

Improve Business Planning

Carillon integrates point-of-sale data, historical sales trends, seasonality, supplier lead times and more to help you optimize purchasing decisions, thus minimizing overages and shortages. Full visibility throughout the supply chain helps global companies respond quickly to changing market conditions to keep retailer satisfaction rates and profitability high.

Streamline & Advance Operations

Get up-to-the-second information across unlimited warehouse locations so you can make the best decisions possible. With Carillon ERP, all your warehouses can be connected in real-time through your own private cloud. Carillon’s barcode scanning automates your warehouse operations, so every action is simultaneously updated throughout the system.

Specific Functionality for Beverage Distributors

Warehouse Management

Physical inventory scanning
Bin, lot and serial tracking
Unlimited inventory stocking locations
Track on-hand quantities per location
Reason tracking for inventory adjustments
Source sales order from multiple locations
Fully integrated document imaging

Inventory

Link producer to an item
Master item - groups items for historical analysis
Multiple units of measure per item
Assign industry-specific characteristics to an item
Each item can have multiple barcodes and UPCs
Item specific unit-of-measure conversions

Barcode Scanning

Improves inventory accuracy
Tracks transfer of inventory to other locations
Tracks movement of inventory within warehouse (from shelf, to staging area/loading zone, and onto truck)
Tracks shipment and delivery of orders
Streamlines order entry and point-of-sale processes
Simplifies case unpacking and repacking

Logistics

Route scheduling and delivery
Supports staging areas and loading zones
Pick orders to staging area/loading zone for holding before loading onto truck
Scan items from staging area to delivery truck to ensure shipment is correct
Print pick tickets, labels, packing slips and bills of lading
Supports case unpacking and repacking, including tracking cases with an assortment of repacked items
Handles transfers within warehouses, between warehouses, and between bins
Coordinates shipments, direct shipments, returns and point-of-sale

Importing & Receiving

Currency tax calculation (if applicable)
True multicurrency system
Ability to add up to 10 additional costing factors
Allocate a cost to a single PO or an entire shipping container
Able to have multiple consolidators per container
Duty calculations

Customer Management

Fully integrated customer portal
Fully integrated Contact Relationship Management (CRM)
Rule-based credit checking
Compliance tracking
Customer-level pricing, discounting, payment and terms
Credit approval options
Powerful sales order entry capabilities

Costing & Pricing

FIFO, average and standard inventory costing
Robust pricing tools allow you to calculate new prices based on cost, bonded cost or other methods
Price by customer and by item
Unlimited cascading, multitier, date-sensitive price files

Project Costing

Full job costing
Full promotional/marketing material costing

Production & Manufacturing

Fully integrated production capabilities
Full kitting capability
Unlimited levels on bills of material