A Priori Specialty Foods Co.

Secret Ingredients in Specialty Food Distributor A Priori’s Rapid Rise: Utah’s Tony Caputo’s Roots

Acumatica Cloud ERP solution for A Priori Specialty Foods Co.

Company Highlights

Location

Salt Lake City, Utah

Industry

Distribution, Manufacturing, Retail

System Replaced

QuickBooks

Country

USA

Number of Emplyoees

50-100

Revenue

$1M-$10M

Product Used

Acumatica Distribution Edition

Applications Used

Multiple Currencies, Intercompany Accounting, Inventory Control, Order Management, Warehouse Management

Sub-Industry

Specialty Food Retail and Distribution

3.5 hours

saved weekly by fulfillment team

30%

time saved processing price changes

6 hours

saved weekly by sales team

Challenges

A Priori Specialty Foods serves four Tony Caputo’s retail food markets, and other specialty food retailers, national brands, chefs, bars, and restaurants. Previously, A Priori operated on QuickBooks, which made it difficult to track metrics for its different entities and trace its income streams. Lacking the operational tools needed, employees created spreadsheets and used other software as workarounds to analyze performance.

"We wanted an integrated system that could do everything from one place so our sales reps, fulfillment teams, and admins could see the same data in the same way."

Adri Pachelli, National Sales Manager

A Priori Specialty Foods Co.

ERP Solution

A Priori executives liked that Acumatica Distribution offered an affordable price, based on transaction volume not per-user licenses. It also offered a lot of personalization, including custom reporting, and a lot of functionality baked into a single system. They also liked that they could start with a base platform and add interconnected modules like warehouse management over time, and add more users as they grew, without escalating licensing costs.

"We needed something that could work with multiple branches, locations, and companies so we could facilitate transactions between each and track accurately."

Mason Kolendrianos, Director of Procurement

A Priori Specialty Foods Co.

Outcome

With Acumatica, A Priori’s executives gained insights to make better decisions across their varied businesses and automated processes saved time. Understanding what was in stock and what needed to be reordered made A Priori more efficient. Automated workflows improved pick, pack, and ship processes in the warehouses. Integrating the A Priori webstore with Acumatica, helped with creating a dealer network to better facilitate wholesale sales.

"It's a huge luxury for us to know how to adapt, how to grow, how to continue on this path, and frankly, without Acumatica in place, we would not be able to do that."

Yelena Caputo, Co-Founder

A Priori Specialty Foods Co.

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