End Of The Paper Chase: Nevada Beverage Chooses Datamax-O'Neil's PrintPAD To Improve Invoicing Process

Nevada Beverage turned to Colchester, Vt.-based Vermont Information Processing, an IT consultant specializing in work for beverage wholesalers. VIP had helped Nevada Beverage move from a custom IBM AS400 solution to a more robust beverage solution; turning to them was natural to Hufstader. “Among all the providers out there, we liked what they offered us,” he says. VIP provided everything from electronic commerce to individual handheld computers used for driver sales, deliveries, or applications for the corporate sales department.

So Hufstader presented the invoicing problem to VIP. After analyzing the situation, they came back with a solution that used digital printing and mobile computing hardware with their installed beverage application to meet the requirements. VIP provided Nevada with options from various companies they partnered with, which they tested. “Because we live in a desert climate, we were skeptical about the affects of heat, and how things, such as battery life and durability, were going to work in our environment,” says Hufstader.