entrée.FS Product Features

Welcome to entrée.FS the add-on module for processing Food Show Orders in the main entrée system in either entrée version 3 or entrée version 4 SQL and in the entrée.DSR software.

 

Food Show Orders are a special type of an order that is very similar to a Sales Order, but with a few key differences. Like a Sales Order, a Food Show Order represents a firm commitment from your customer to purchase one or more products in certain quantities and with certain pricing, typically a discount from what they would normally pay. And, like a Sales Order, a Food Show Order does not itself represent an actual sale and so it has no effect on Accounts Receivable.

 

Food Show Orders are different in many ways, they do not affect Inventory and Allocations like an Invoice or Sales Order would. Also each line item on Food Show Orders can have it's own unique list of one or more scheduled deliveries over an extended period of time.

 

The basic design of the Food Show Order system assumes that each individual delivery represents a weekly amount but you are free to set up any schedule that you wish. It is this extended delivery time (as much as ten weeks in typical practice, possibly more) that makes it difficult to include a Food Show Order normally in the  “allocations area” of Inventory Control. This is because it would essentially "lock down" in your allocated quantity a potentially large quantity of product which might not need to be delivered for several weeks.

 

Another key difference in Food Show Orders is that they have a dedicated system for defining Promotions. Since there are different considerations for discounts given on a Food Show Order, rather than using the regular Promotions feature in entrée, we have a feature to define promotions that is only used for Food Show Orders.

 

A Food Show Promotion typically specifies a discount off of the customer's regular price for an item but it also has the ability to specify a Unit Price directly. We will discuss this in a little more detail in the following section when we explain how to set up a Food Show Promotion.

 

The final major feature of the Food Show Order is the handling of those extended delivery schedules. Since the Food Show Order itself does not represent an actual sale, the various deliveries which are specified on the Food Show Order must ultimately be added to regular invoices.

 

The Food Show Order system provides support for doing this easily through Create/Change Invoice. There are a variety of features which support the process of entering and fulfilling the Food Show Orders and we will discuss each of them in further detail starting with the Food Show Promotions.

 

If you would like more information related to pricing or a specific quote for your company’s needs, please contact the NECS Sales by calling 800.766.6327 or email sales@necs.com. Please visit our website at www.necs.com to learn about our other add-on modules, products and services.

 

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