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The ERP buying process for F&B distributors is broken.

Generic RFI templates miss critical F&B requirements

These templates ignore FEFO, allergens, catch weights, and the requirements you need as a distributor.

Enterprise ERPs don’t fit your specific needs

Complex systems are priced and scoped for manufacturing plants, making them a poor match for a distributor.

Translating F&B requirements into ERP questions is tough

When you’ve never bought ERP software before, evaluating vendors feels like a high-stakes guessing game.

Without the right ERP RFI, you end 
up in 1 of 3 places: 

01

Underbuying 

You continue patching QuickBooks and paper processes together. 

As a result, your team remains buried in tedious manual processes and paperwork for another two years until a retailer audit or recall exposes the gaps.

02

Overbuying

You get sold a manufacturing-first ERP you can’t realistically implement. 

Buying a bloated enterprise solution means long implementation and wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on complex features your distribution team will never use.

03

Wrong fit

You choose the wrong partner for your ERP solution entirely. 

Being locked into a multi-year contract with a vendor lacking F&B expertise means critical compliance requirements are missed, creating massive operational problems.

Avoid costly ERP selection mistakes. 
Get the 65-line F&B-specific RFI template we’ve handed distributors for 
30 years.

Unlike generic RFI templates that are too bloated and ignore F&B-specific requirements like FEFO, allergens, and catch weights, ours is distribution-first, F&B-native, and shaped by three decades of helping companies just like yours.

Download the free ERP RFI Template for F&B now 

  • 65 requirements, purpose-built for F&B distribution
  • 15 F&B-specific lines covering FEFO, allergens, catch weights, HAACP, lot visibility, and more
  • Priority tiering to separate must-haves from nice-to-haves
  • Standardized vendor response options for clean, side-by-side comparison
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Neil Madden, Owner, ECS Coffee 

Translate your F&B compliance realities into vendor questions with confidence.

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65 lines •  F&B-specific •  Zero fluff 

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