SK Foods are a retailer specialising in foods such as Fresh Meat, Fresh vegetable, Spices, Rice and Flour along with a large variety of convenience goods. When SK Foods decided to purchase larger premises they knew that their current infrastructure was no longer suitable and a new electronic point-of-sale system was needed to cope with the expected trade increase and to ensure that sales during peak trading hours ran smoothly. The aim was to install a system that was easy to manage and use, and could be kept up to date, with little effort. The solution they found most appropriate after reviewing various systems was the Business Smart Point of Sale (BS POS) solution.
"Overall, the new ePOS solution has cut costs and improved reliability. Stock control has been centralised, giving us access to a detailed audit trail of transactions. It has enabled us to reduce excess stock levels and to adopt a streamline approach to purchasing hence maximising our profitability. The system is intuitive to use, even for our part-time staff. Our Product lines, sales figures and stock levels are now all managed and updated in real time and can be managed remotely from any location. Customised sales reports are easy to generate against a common view of the business and helps to identify popular and poor-selling items. Armed with this information, we can now also respond to sales trends and optimise our product range.”
Raja Shahnawaz (Managing Director)
MS Foods are fast becoming a leading name in wholesale fast food distribution. They approached Business Smart for an IT software solution which would support and become the back bone for their expansion. MS Foods IT infrastructure at the time was inadequate and could not cope with the increasing sales and demands of the business. Business Smart assisted them in the migration of their legacy systems to the Business Smart Enterprise Resource Planning (BS-ERP) platform. MS Foods is continuing with success and steady growth.
"Business Smart has helped us revolutionise the way in which we conduct our business. We now have an IT system that is stable, robust and flexible. This allows us to spend more time on other aspects of expanding the business rather than wasting hours on previously tedious tasks.”
Sebastian Thomas (Business Development)
Eagle Foods is a successful, family run business who pride themselves with having over 20 years of experience in the fast food take away business. They provide an essential ‘supply and delivery’ service to restaurants and fast food takeaways within the Cambridgeshire area. Due to the increasing number of customer orders, Eagle Foods realised the need to automate more aspects of their business by investing in a modern computer system.
“From our first point of contact with Business Smart, I have been impressed with the level of professionalism and very friendly attitude of this company. We were presented with an excellent demonstration, highlighting every module relevant to making our business more efficient. Since implementing the Business Smart Enterprise Resource Planning (BS-ERP) package we have increased flexibility in the way we conduct our business.”
Mukhtar Ali (Director)
Spice Time has built its name as a company that manufactures and supplies authentic south Asian cuisine. As well as supplying to Wholesalers they also have on-going contracts with various city councils to supply ready-made meals to schools. Spice Time realised that while using a paper/excel based manual system it had two major problems. Firstly, it could not realistically cope with an increasing Customer base as it was becoming difficult to handle each Customers bespoke needs. Secondly, it could no longer afford for staff to spend an endless amount of time duplicating data all over the place ranging from writing manufacturing slips to paper invoices to updating excel spreadsheet and to submitting the same data on-line to EDI partners.
“When we evaluated the market for a software programme the two main things that we were looking for were that the software should be customisable as if it was purposely built for our business and secondly being a small business the cost had to be reasonable. After looking at various over-rated and over-priced software we came across Business Smart who actually took the time to understand our business rather than simply demonstrating their software. When they did demo the software it was configured specifically to our requirements which made it very appealing. We have had a smooth implementation and continue to receive excellent support.”
Sabir Hussain (Managing Director)
