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We value our relationships with our manufacturers’ broker sales forces.  Our broker ContractPro® users drive many of the service enhancements that we provide.  Together we partner to increase each others' value to our mutual clients.

Our commitment to the broker community includes timely communication, routine training for CotnractPro, and help resolving claim/contract-related issues. 
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Everything's a Contract

Our business was founded on the needs of the manufacturer. Since 1986 we have helped manufacturers with market coupons and contract/trade spend management. The common thread throughout all these programs is this . . . everything is a contract.

After 20-plus years of experience, we have developed best practices for handling all of your contracts and claims: bids, earned income, broker commissions, market coupons and promotions, and trade spend. 

Put one of our solutions to work for your organization.

ContractPro

The ContractPro® solution offers manufacturers the ability to choose the level of service required . . . from simple data acquisition and hosted software only to a fully-outsourced, contract and trade spend management solution. The full ContractPro solution ensures Sarbanes-Oxley compliant practices and provides clients with value in three critical areas: rich data, increased selling time, and improved profitability and ROI.

Timely, accurate, and revealing information
Our ContractPro clients receive timely information that allows them to process claims very quickly and accurately. All claims are audited line by line, and we are able to help them measure contract performance versus expectation.

Increase Selling Time
Clients have experienced significantly reduced administration time for brokers and direct sales people. Answers Systems takes on much of your administrative work in the contract management and claim settlement process so that your team can focus on selling and other critical tasks.

Improved profitability and ROI
The ContractPro solution from Answers Systems takes care of flawed contracts to help improve communication between trading partners and reduce claim settlement errors. Additionally our Settlement services identify invalid claims and give clients the essential back up documentation required for collecting invalid deductions.

CustomPic

Leverage Answers Systems' extensive operator database and years of experience in management the verification and settlement of street operator coupons and promotions with the CustomPic(SM) solution for foodservice sales & marketing professionals.

Reach qualified operators with independent purchasing authority
Our CustomPic clients can mine data from a list of over 400,000 operators with independent purchasing authority. Answers Systems can consult on list selection to help you reach the right operators with your message. Our databases matches Technomic’s segment profiles and drills down additional levels on data such as menu type, primary distributor, size, and more.

Ensure payment of qualified coupon claims
Our stringent verification and settlement procedures ensure that you pay only those claims that meet the guidelines of your offer. Additionally, we monitor your past promotional activity and contracted programs* to prevent double, triple, quadruple dipping.

Analyze Return on Marketing Investment and BSR/DSR Performance
Answers Systems provides customized reporting that allows foodservice sales & marketing professionals to understand the success of campaigns and their influence on sales. We also offer DSR and BSR incentive tracking to show how distributor and broker sales representatives helped drive the program.

*contracted program monitoring available only to clients who also use our ContractPro® solution in addition to CustomPic.