entrée V5

entrée V5: Food Distribution ERP (Quick Summary)

entrée V5 is an all-in-one ERP platform built for food distributors to manage sales, purchasing, inventory, warehouse operations, routing, accounting, dashboards, and reporting in one integrated system.

• Industry-proven: Used by 1,500+ food distributors
• Built for food: Catch weight, lot control/traceability support, customer pricing, order guides

Innovative Software Built for Successful Food Distributors

Since 1987, NECS has been developing and improving software to meet the ever-changing needs of food distributors. entrée V5 is our most advanced ERP platform built specifically for food distribution—helping your team run daily operations with less friction and more visibility.

General Features

Usability: Ribbon menus and intuitive navigation help users find what they need quickly. Individual users can tailor menu options for simpler day-to-day workflows.

Mapping & routing support: Google Maps integration helps you visualize customer locations, directions, and drive times from your warehouse to support efficient routing and planning.

Core Capabilities in entrée V5

• Order Entry & Sales: Invoicing, order guides, customer-specific pricing, promotions, substitutions, backorders, and quick access to customer/item history.
• Inventory & Warehouse: Catch weight, breaking cases, lot control/traceability support, cycle counts, returns/adjustments, picking documents/labels, and processing/kitting support.
• Purchasing & Receiving: PO management, receiving, vendor tracking, and reorder guidance based on demand patterns and lead times.
• Accounting: AR/AP/GL, cash receipts, credit hold controls, and finance visibility via dashboards.
• Dashboards & Reporting: Custom dashboards and hundreds of reports; major performance improvements.
• Optional extensions: Customer ordering tools, proof-of-delivery support, online invoice payment, and EDI integrations (module availability depends on licensing).

Inventory & Warehouse

The entrée V5 system supports key inventory needs for food distribution—catch weight, breaking cases, lot control/traceability support, promotions and rebates, bill backs, adjustments, returns, and cycle counts. For in-house processing, kitting helps track inventory usage and costs from ingredients to finished goods.

Inventory availability can be projected up to 30 days into the future using on-hand quantities, expected receipts from purchase orders, and allocations from customer orders/invoices.

Cost/Pricing

entrée V5 helps you update costs and pricing while protecting gross profit targets. Define margins and pricing rules, track multiple cost fields, and apply structured price levels for different customer segments.

Invoicing

Invoicing in entrée V5 is designed for speed and accuracy. Standard Orders and Order Guides help your team capture orders quickly and reduce missed items. The workflow supports catch weights and operational needs typical in food distribution.

Common invoicing workflow supports: backorders, bottle deposits, fuel surcharge options, substitutions, hot messages, and warehouse picking documents/labels.

Accounts Receivable

Visibility: Review customer account status quickly with account inquiry screens and configurable views.

Collections controls: Flexible cash receipts and configurable credit hold logic help you manage risk and keep processes consistent.

Optional modern payments: Support electronic payments for faster collections (module availability depends on licensing).

Purchasing

Purchasing tools support data-driven buying decisions. Reorder guidance can consider usage patterns, order points, lead times, vendor minimums, seasonal usage, and minimum stock levels to help maintain service levels while controlling carrying costs.

Dashboards

Dashboards in entrée V5 help you visualize performance across sales, inventory, purchasing, and finance. Views can be tailored so teams see the metrics that matter most.

Reports & Scheduling

entrée V5 includes hundreds of configurable reports, plus a scheduling utility for daily, weekly, or monthly automation. Performance improvements in V5 mean teams can run reports more frequently and use reporting as a daily tool, not a bottleneck.

Search Screens

Search Screens are customizable so users can quickly find brands, customers, vendors, invoices, and more. Image-supported search can help teams verify the right products faster.

Frequently Asked Questions