Industries · Beverage & Drinks
Beverage & Drinks distribution, modernized.
The industry MohnMercantile was built in — side-bay trucks, DSD merchandising, empties and deposits.
The reality on the ground
Beverage distribution is the original DSD business — and also the most stuck in legacy software. Industry surveys show over half of beverage distributors rate their last-mile delivery planning as less than excellent, and nearly 40% adjust routes multiple times a day on the fly. Most still run route-accounting systems designed decades ago: PC terminals behind VPNs, printed pick tickets, drivers calling in from the road.
What breaks in beverage & drinks operations
Tribal-knowledge routing
Route plans live in one dispatcher's head. Re-routes are a once-a-year manual exercise, so trucks run the same paths even as accounts open and close — burning fuel and labor on stale plans.
Merchandising complexity
Drivers aren't just delivering — they're stocking shelves, rotating cooler dates, building displays, and pulling empties. Generic delivery software treats a stop as a pin drop; it doesn't model the work.
Rep-order disconnect
Sales reps take orders in the field, but the data doesn't flow cleanly to the warehouse for picking. The office doesn't know what was delivered until the driver returns with paperwork.
Empties, shells & deposits
Deposit items, keg shells, and crate returns are inventory that moves backward — a tracking problem most systems bolt on badly if they handle it at all.
How MohnMercantile answers it
- ✓Driver app built for DSD work — delivery scans, returns/empties tracking, shelf-stocking notes per stop
- ✓Live dispatch map + stop-level status replaces the 'call the driver' phone call
- ✓Retailer self-serve ordering pulls volume off the phone lines; reps sell instead of taking dictation
- ✓Order → pick → load → deliver → settle in one dataset — no end-of-day reconciliation
- ✓Deposit/return lines on every stop with settlement math done on the truck
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