Industry experts have identified and analyzed the growth strategies of successful small and midsize consumer packaged goods companies. They found that the companies who grow successfully are the ones who are able to adapt and respond quickly to the rapidly changing demands of the industry, customers, and suppliers—and do so without increasing costs. They also found that a flexible and adaptable business solution, like JunctionCPG, was the cornerstone of their growth strategy. These successful companies are capitalizing on technology to build agile business processes so they can provide great service within and beyond their supply chain.

JunctionCPG, built on Microsoft Dynamics AX, gives your business an attractively priced way to adapt and respond to rapidly changing market and customer demands. JunctionCPG connects people, information, and processes across your organization and includes functionality that supports your supply chain, marketing and trade promotions, financials and your customers.

Supply Chain Management
JunctionCPG facilitates customer self-service and also enables you to work proactively with your customers and suppliers. You can easily provide your customers and business partners access to a Web portal containing relevant information and services needed to carry out commercial transactions with each other. You can share information (such as stock availability) with your customers and suppliers quickly and make changes fast.

Inventory Accuracy
JunctionCPG includes wireless warehouse management functionality that will help you reduce costs and increase efficiency in your warehouse. You can increase and maintain the accuracy of your inventory data with features such as item tracking and direct put-away and picking processes. When you want to pick an item, you’ll know its exact location. And when you receive items to be put away, JunctionCPG directs you to a suitable bin.

Sales and Customer Service
JunctionCPG sales tools cover the details of product sales and distribution while your sales and marketing team turns its full attention to responsive customer service and competitive selling. Real-time sales order entry and commitment, repetitive order processing, price list management, on-line credit control, transaction routing, product holds, delivered pricing, off invoice and bill back promotions, sales contracts and bookings, project-oriented buying and selling, and automated brokerage commissions drive down the cost of processing every order and every shipment.

Financial Management
With JunctionCPG, your accounting and finance team can play an active and valuable role in management and day-to-day operations. Flexible account structure and seamless integration with all business operations provide easy access to the financial effects of operations. Automated accounting entries eliminate errors and save time for reviewing, analyzing and acting on financial information. JunctionCPG contains the financial tools to support dairy pricing, catch weight, multiple output recipes and potency.

Trade Promotions
JunctionCPG’s trade promotions functionality brings a new level of Trade Promotion Management to CPG manufacturers with the addition of trade analytics, budgeting and planning to the improved core administrative components. JunctionCPG removes guesswork about business performance by providing up to the date sales, promotion and deal performance information while updating projections on a daily basis on the likely future position. You can review key performance indicators daily and as a result make decisions and take action before it is too late.