YARDLEY, PA.– In the field, distributors' sales representatives are often burdened with stacks of paperwork or cumbersome laptops.

Prophet 21, Inc. offers a solution with its CommerceCenter Personal DigitalAssistant integration, which enables distributors to store pick ticket data and route information in compact PDAs. The tool also allows drivers to capture customers' signatures upon deliveries, and lets sales representatives download and store customer order information in a PDA — then upload orders taken on a PDA directly into their CommerceCenter application.

CommerceCenter provides order management, inventory management, warehouse management, purchasing, financial management, and reporting and analysis.