These PROMPT users range in size from a small operation with three workstations and two printers to eight workstations and four printers.

One of the PROMPT features they use in invoicing is to print the suggested retail price (SRP) on the invoice for their customer to use to place a retail price on the produce. The SRP is determined from information provided by their retail customer indicating the desired markup by product category.

PROMPT provides a way to allow groups of customers to have the same SRP and pricing as opposed to having to set up the SRP and pricing for every single customer. This is ideal for a chain of stores, but can be used without any logical relationship between customers using the same pricing scheme. The flexibility of PROMPT also allows a customer to have the same pricing scheme as another except for specific SKU's or product lines.

They use the customer specific price lists explained in Electrical and Building supplies - Wholesale and retail and they print on this price list customer specific SRP in addition to the customer specific price per SKU.

PROMPT Purchase orders have a special feature they use allowing the entry of freight for each purchase order line thereby showing both FOB cost and Delivered cost. In addition a market adjustment value ( + or - ) per purchase order line, or SKU, can optionally be entered to use in calculation of the selling price.

These features support their need to adjust prices weekly without a lot of data entry. This is accomplished by adjusting the cost as they process purchase orders at a different cost for the coming week. These purchase order cost changes are used to automatically generate price change records for the price lists for next week. At the cut off next weeks selling prices are batch updated and the cycle starts all over again.

Route processing was explained under Fishing Equipment and Bait - Wholesale with routes, but the wholesale produce house uses a truck load report to bulk load the truck as opposed to staging each order individually. They take orders by phone, fax or email and hold these orders without print until a cut off point at which time they generate a load report by route. This report is in sequence by bin location so they move through the warehouse in a logical sequence gathering the specified amount of produce required to load the truck.

It is important to understand that these PROMPT Business System users also enjoys the other features of the software explained under all other industry segment headings of this web page and on the Products web page.