Beverage & Soft Drink Distribution

How Does 8Move Help?

Fleet Planner builds beverage routes by weight capacity and drop sequence, not by stop count. DriverPro captures temperature at delivery and photographs damaged returns at the door. SupplyNow's pricing engine applies active promotions automatically: Gold tier, regional discount, and seasonal stack — so the rep sees the correct price without arithmetic.

Overview

Beverage distributors move weight and volume at a scale most FMCG categories don't: a single truck carries far more cases than SKUs, so a route planned by stop count alone leaves capacity on the table or overloads a vehicle. On top of that, promotions change weekly by channel and customer tier, and returns split into empties, damaged stock, and wrong-temperature product, each needing its own handling at the point of delivery.

8Move treats route planning, pricing, and returns as one connected workflow instead of three separate problems. Fleet Planner sequences stops by declared weight and volume capacity, not just drop count, so the heaviest cases come off first and the truck is loaded to what it can actually carry. SupplyNow's pricing engine applies every active promotion — tier, region, and season — the moment an order is placed, so a rep never has to calculate a stacked discount by hand. DriverPro closes the loop at the door: it logs temperature at delivery, photographs damaged returns, and records empties as a negative inventory adjustment that reconciles against the van manifest at the end of the day.

What Challenges Does This Industry Face?

These are the day-to-day problems 8Move is built to solve for teams in this industry.

Routes must be planned by weight and volume capacity, not just stop count — because each truck carries far more cases than SKUs
Returns management is complex: empties, damaged cases, and wrong-temperature stock each require a separate flow
Promotions are layered and change weekly: volume discounts, channel-specific prices, seasonal campaigns — reps cannot memorize all active rules
Cold-chain beverages require temperature confirmation at delivery, warm-chain deliveries have different documentation requirements
Promotion compliance is hard to audit after the fact: without route-level visibility, management only learns a rep skipped a mandated cross-sell or applied the wrong discount once a customer complains

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to the most common questions about how 8Move serves the beverage & soft drink distribution industry.

DriverPro records empties collected at each stop as negative inventory adjustments. The van manifest reconciles empties returned against empties dispatched at end of day.

SupplyNow's pricing engine supports eligibility rules: Gold-only, regional, first-order, and seasonal promotions can run simultaneously with defined precedence.

Fleet Planner loads trucks against declared weight and volume capacity. Stops are sequenced to drop heaviest items first, minimising vehicle stress.

DriverPro captures temperature readings at collection and delivery, with GPS-stamped timestamps. Every handover is logged for audit.

The CEO dashboard surfaces missed cross-sells and promotion compliance rates by territory.

SupplyNow's pricing engine applies eligibility rules in a defined precedence order — tier, region, first-order, and seasonal promotions can all be active at once, and the system resolves which one applies instead of leaving that judgment call to the rep.

Fleet Planner sequences each truck's load by declared weight and volume, not the order stops were entered, so the heaviest cases are planned to come off first and the remaining capacity is used efficiently across the rest of the route.