Customer Profiles: Suppliers/Distributors

Suppliers and distributors worldwide use DI's technology to target opportunities, track performance, and increase profits. Navigating through data with DI-ProDiver is simple for non-technical users, enabling decision-makers across all functional areas of a corporation to access data quickly and intuitively.

With DI-ProDiver, brand managers analyze daily brand performance by product, customer, and location. The sales force has easy visibility to lost sales, promotion/quota tracking, and best/worst performing products. Customers are able to see their own purchasing history and promotional opportunities, which allows sales reps to grow and retain accounts more effectively.

DI-Diver Supplies Answers for Banfi Vintners

After implementing DI-Diver, Banfi immediately began taking data out of their SQL database in order to build DI-Diver Models. Banfi's DiveBook contains four main categories: Depletions, Sales, Open Orders, and a section called 'All Data' where users can view depletions, sales, and open orders simultaneously....

Colony Liquor Improves Information Access, Analysis, and Reporting with integrated BI Portal

Colony Liquor practices what they call a modern style of business: "We don't just provide our customers with product. We achieve rapid growth and high customer satisfaction rates through the combination of reliable distribution and value-added services." says Peter Coliukos, Director of Information Technology at Colony Liquor. Colony's approach to product distribution and customer management has driven double-digit growth in the last three years. Combined with partner Peerless Importers, the organization is the largest liquor wholesaler in New York State. Colony's upstate NY operations account for over 3,300 active products servicing 10,000 customers...

David Sherman Corporation Supplies Answers with DI-Diver

David Sherman's pricing structure is complicated as a result of price changes throughout the year, different pricing for different customers, and multiple tax rates depending on the proof and type of product. They run DI-Atlantis on their IBM iSeries and users access data using DI-Diver on Windows 95 clients...

Distribution Company Enjoys Faster Data Access and Analysis with Dimensional Insight

The people at Fedway fulfilled their original objective when they converted to the IBM iSeries: to provide a secure, solid platform for a growing database that would allow the business to operate better. But when the sales-people needed a report , John Kievit, Director of Off-Premise Sales, explains, "we had to go down to the computer department and say 'Warren, could you make this report for me?' And Warren either told us no, or he would do it within two days."...

Southern Wine and Spirits Explains Why They Use DI-Diver

"As a very decentralized operation, one of the biggest challenges SWS faced was being able to pull together timely information from all of our selling divisions for our Corporate Offices. This executive information needed to be summarized at a high level with drill down ("slice and dice") granular functionality. We were given the task of finding a product that could not only deliver timely information to our executive offices, but could also be used in each of our selling divisions by sales management to monitor their business..."

Linux and DI-Diver: An Overall Strategy for Standard Beverage Corporation

Standard Beverage Corporation, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, is a full-line wholesale distributor of alcoholic beverages to licensed customers in Kansas. Through the implementation of innovative business practices, they maintain their position as the market leader...

Todhunter International Empowers Users with DI-ProDiver

"DI-ProDiver is well-suited for people in our organization who need to view information in a dynamic fashion, and even more valuable to staff personnel who need to identify and research exception data. The ultimate purpose of information retrieval is to assist the organization in identifying existing problems and opportunities. The ability of DI-ProDiver to rearrange data 'on-the-fly' allows motivated users to research information much more efficiently than in our 'Pre-Diver' days..."

United Liquors Drives Sales Forward With DI-Diver

United Liquors, Ltd., headquartered in West Bridgewater, MA, with offices in New Hampshire, Vermont, North Carolina, and Virginia, runs DI-Atlantis on Microsoft Windows NT. Seventy-five users, including the CEO, president, vice presidents, managers, and salespeople, access data Models from Microsoft Windows clients every day...