Industries / Foodservice supply

Keep short-dated and perishable stock arriving on time

When product has a shelf life, a late truck is not just late. It is less time to sell. TraxSail follows up on open POs and flags the suppliers who keep slipping.

25 purchase orders free. No credit card.

Where the PO process breaks for foodservice supply distributors

The supplier side, not the sales side.

Shelf life starts before it arrives

For perishable and short-dated items, every day a shipment is late is a day less on your shelf. Ordering timing matters more than in most lines.

Restaurant customers order tight

Kitchens keep little backstock. If your inbound is late, their menu is affected.

Mixed lines from many vendors

Disposables, smallwares and food items come from different suppliers with different habits.

Price swings

Prices on some lines move often. Seeing an increase on the PO helps before it reaches your margin.

What TraxSail does about it

Supplier follow-up that escalates

TraxSail drafts follow-ups that get firmer as a ship date nears and passes. You approve each one by default, or turn on auto-send per supplier.

Replies read for you

When a supplier answers, the reply is parsed and the PO is marked confirmed or delayed, with the new date.

Reorder suggestions and one-click POs

Once an item has 3 or more orders, TraxSail suggests when to reorder. Late suppliers push the suggestion earlier. One click builds the PO.

A to F supplier grade

Every supplier gets a reliability score and a letter grade with the reason in plain words. If a grade drops overnight, you get an email.

Price increase detection

Each new PO price is checked against that supplier's history for the item, so creep gets noticed.

AR and invoice follow-up

Included on every plan. The same polite, escalating follow-up, pointed at customers who owe you.

Illustrative example, not a real customer

A foodservice distributor serving local restaurants

Imagine a distributor ordering short-dated sauces and fresh-cut disposables weekly. TraxSail sends a check-in before each ship date and reads the replies. When one supplier starts running two days late on average, its grade and reason line show it, and reorder suggestions for those items move earlier so stock still arrives with usable shelf life.

This scenario is made up to show how the features fit together. It is not a customer story and the details are not measured results.

Questions foodservice supply distributors ask

Does TraxSail track expiry dates?

No. TraxSail tracks POs, supplier replies, ship dates and supplier reliability. It does not manage lot or expiry data.

Can it follow up with my restaurant customers on unpaid invoices?

Yes. AR and invoice follow-up is included on every plan.

How fast can I start?

Import a recent PO export as CSV, TXT, XML, EDI or PDF and the AI reads it in. The trial covers 25 POs with no card.

Put your open POs on autopilot, with you approving

Import a PO export, approve the first follow-ups, and see every supplier graded. Starter is $79 a month for 15 suppliers. Growth is $189 a month for 40.

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