Janet Zlokovich

Janet is the Distributor Liaison at Answers Systems
Where have all the recycling bins gone? Collaboration on Trade Promotion for Going Green

Posted by Janet Zlokovich As we wrap up the 2009 year, I want to leave you one thought as you have discussions with your supply chain partners on trade promotion . . . . Collaboration on data exchange should be a key factor when you establish the core objectives for your trade program model. A requirement of the model must include the submission of electronic billback reporting to the manufacturer for claim settlement. It is simply the only way vendor partners will have the proper insigh

posted @ Monday, December 14, 2009 2:06 PM | Feedback (0)

Contract Collaboration: Automation for Electronic Contract Supply Chain Efficiencies

Posted by Janet Zlokovich Trade Spend Management collaboration means calibrating terms for contract negotiations. One of my “Best Practice” recommendations for foodservice is to Promote trading partner collaboration for maximizing efficiencies by improving the claim processing timeframe and driving waste from the supply chain by eliminating paper. The way to achieve this objective is with technology such as Answers Systems EclaimSM; calibration occurs when the claimant submits all bill

posted @ Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:03 PM | Feedback (0)

Tax Returns and Trade Spend

Post by Janet Zlokovich Everyone who sends a tax return to the IRS (business or personal) wonders, "How do I know the IRS received it?” Most taxpayers and tax preparers in 2009 used IRS e-file to file their taxes. During this process, they did not have to send a single scrap of paper to the Internal Revenue Service. In January of this year, the IRS was predicting the the total number of individual tax returns, both electronic and paper, to reach about 140 million in 2009. And it expects e-fil

posted @ Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:39 PM | Feedback (0)

Electronic Data for Foodservice Trade Spend Contract Management

As Data Acquisition Liaison, I work with foodservice distributors to set up electronic data transmissions for trade spend contract management. In today’s competitive economic environment, electronic data and automated file transmissions are key to maximizing trade spend billbacks that occur on the end-of-the-supply-chain. Answers Systems has both manufacturer and operator clients so there are many opportunities to streamline data interchange for all 3 sides of the foodservice triangle. My

posted @ Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:49 AM | Feedback (0)