Two new components added to JBA`s specialist drinks software

JBA has added two new components to JBA Drinks, the specialist software product for the beverage industry. The first component, Simple Route Planning, enables central access to distribution details. It is designed for smaller companies where installing full transport planning capabilities would be excessive. The second component allows a Credit Check to be carried out which includes container deposits, thus allowing drinks manufacturers to account for the chargeable deposits of containers when credit checking sales orders.

Regional brewers often have small fleets and less demanding delivery schedules, with transport planned manually with no centrally stored distribution information. JBA Drink`s Simple Route Planning component allows for vital distribution information to be captured on the system. The module offers two functions, the first of which offers a route plan enquiry, thus enabling users to allocate delivery addresses to routes on selected dates; and the second a route plan report. This lists the orders, quantity of items and the selected routes for deliveries due on a given date, thus, by holding this information centrally it avoids the problems of committing vital operating information to individual members of staff.

The second new component has been developed is to account for the increasing value of containers which, due to their recyclable worth, are often worth more than their contents. Many manufacturers wholesale prices now include a refundable rental charge per container, and this provides a problem for telesales staff when making judgements about customer`s accounts. The new component takes into account the amount of refundable credit owed to each account, thus enabling companies to balance customer`s accounts more accurately and to make better informed sales decisions.

Editors note

JBA South Africa (Pty) Limited, is the South African subsidiary of JBA International Plc, which in turn owned by London Stock Exchange listed JBA Holdings, a leading world-wide provider of enterprise management software solutions, with local offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.