OVERVIEW

The PURVEYOR distribution system is an extremely versatile system that has been designed to meet the needs of suppliers of many kinds, an idea that has brought the benefits of the experiences of several industries to all in each of those industries. At this point, it is designed to support the endeavors of those in such industries involved in the high pressure world of perishable goods and commodities production and distribution, namely, processed and unprocessed foods, meat packers, pharmaceutical sales and distribution, etc. as well as heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration, electrical, plumbing, and other hard-goods distributors, both at the wholesale and counter/retail sides, and also those

Most systems benefit all users. These include the standard costing, accurate weighted-average costing system, data qualified inventory system, quality control, speedy accounts receivable and payables, and the sales/bid/quotation system. Being able to transact all inventory in terms of either its case or box quantity at any time benefits nearly all industries. Of course, the fourth generation language system (Graphical User Interface, advanced lookups, pull down and bar menus, safe command level (TCL), report writer (writing, storage, retrieval, editing, and reexecution)) also benefits all users by providing a simple, safe method of navigating the system, but in allowing the novice to produce reports that would cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to have a custom programming group design and write. The truck routing and management system can benefit all users who use their own trucks to perform deliveries and pickups. The product line overhead costing system allows overhead to be applied to all sales transactions to determine the net profit on any or all sales transactions, using a full-bore Activity-Based Cost Accounting system..