Small and midsize food and beverage companies face a variety of challenges in today's market. To expand your business and build consumer loyalty, you must comply with changing legislation, offer competitive pricing, and alleviate food safety concerns, while continuing to tackle growing competition, market consolidation, and disparate systems.

IBM Food and Beverage Express Services, a qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solution offered by IBM, provides small and midsize food and beverage companies with the functionality you need to integrate sales, distribution (direct store delivery), purchasing, inventory management, quality management, production, and management/financial accounting. It integrates profitability analysis and product costing to provide a comprehensive ERP solution.

With IBM Food and Beverage Express Services, you can:

• Guarantee quality checks throughout your business processes
• Increase compliance with regulatory requirements
• Build customer loyalty by improving customer service and sales efficiency
• Lower inventory costs
• Improve buying power through requirements aggregation
• Report profits at the product line, product, and brand level
• Eliminate time-consuming manual processes

Designed for small and midsize food and beverage companies, IBM Food and Beverage Express Services can be implemented in as few as 16 weeks for approximately $600,000 for services.

To learn more about IBM Food and Beverage Express Services, contact Sarah Ebermayer, Industry Solution Manager, at +1-773-942-5131 or sarah.ebermayer@us.ibm.com, or visit www.ibm.com.