VAI Kicks off 2025 Following a Year of Collaboration, Expansion, and Success

Ronkonkoma, NY, January 8, 2025 – VAI, a leading ERP software developer, announced it has concluded its fiscal year 2024, helping hardgoods, food, and pharmaceutical customers thrive in today’s current business environment with its flagship ERP solution, S2K Enterprise. VAI has been a vital partner to its clients at every stage, guaranteeing ongoing economic success and digital continuity while many organizations continue to navigate global challenges and protect business data from threat actors.

"Our customers' needs are always evolving along with technology,” stated Bob Vormittag, president of VAI. “Data security and regulatory compliance continue to be crucial as the business environment becomes more digitally connected and AI advances. While preserving growth and operational efficiencies across customer operations, VAI will keep investing in the newest security measures. The VAI team will proactively protect our clients and guarantee adherence to current industry standards and laws.”

 2024 VAI achievements and growth milestones include:

• VAI employees completed the IBM Artificial Intelligence Fundamental course and received digital accreditation. The course explores Artificial Intelligence (AI) history to learn how it can change the impact businesses can have on the world. Course participants gained insight into how AI makes predictions, understands language and images, and learns using circuits inspired by the human brain.

• VAI launched a new website, serving as a resource for visitors to easily view VAI’s ERP software suite of products, videos, and customer testimonials, and provide opportunities to dive into the functionality available across VAI’s hardgoods, food, and pharmaceutical ERP offerings.

• VAI held its 2024 Business Growth and Leadership Fall Forum September 17-18. The event was centered around addressing current business challenges and preparing for the future, with a focus on the ways in which VAI's ERP solutions help improve leadership and organizational success. The Forum explored compelling customer success stories and new technologies to help VAI customers plan their next growth initiatives.

Product news includes:

• VAI released the company’s most comprehensive Analytics application to date, VAI S2K Analytics 6.2.7. With over 100 pre-built reports and dashboards that help to provide insights into overall company performance and departmental metrics, the application allows customers to identify trends, opportunities, and solve potential challenges of slow-moving inventory, increased carrying costs, risk of obsolescence, reduced cash flow, and potential for loss.

• The latest version of VAI’s Food ERP solution, S2K Food 6.2, was released with many new features and enhancements. More capabilities are expected in 2025 that will include new truck mapping and route manager software and enhanced manufacturing processes.

• VAI S2K Pharma is fully operational for the federally mandated EPCIS serialization.

• All VAI ERP applications can be accessed by VAI’s new Smart Center, which is powered by Liferay. VAI Smart Center delivers tailored experiences, optimizes efficiency, and includes a centralized menu system with the latest customer relationship management (CRM) functionality and analytics dashboards and reports.

• VAI S2K Enterprise was recognized with multiple “Best of” badges from Gartner Digital Markets brands: Software Advice and GetApp, a leading software recommendation search engine. This “Best of” badges program is an independent assessment that evaluates user reviews to help buyers identify highest-rated software companies in specific categories that offer the most popular solutions.

• SelectHub, a leader in software research and selection, selected VAI Warehouse Management Software (WMS) as “Best in Class for Warehouse Management”, garnering an overall 87% score and placement on SelectHub’s leaderboard. The ranking puts VAI in the number one position for warehouse management functionality as a solution within VAI’s S2K Enterprise ERP suite. The analyst score received is a reflection to how VAI WMS supports warehouse features.

New Shipping Partners

• VAI and DigitalShipper, a national sales and service leader of multi-carrier, enterprise-wide shipping execution solutions, entered into an agreement to integrate DigitalShipper into VAI S2K Enterprise for B2B customers of all sizes. The integration between VAI’s ERP platform and DigitalShipper enables seamless shipping operations directly from VAI S2K Enterprise, eliminating the need for manual data entry.

• VAI partnered with Descartes, a cloud-based supply chain and logistics solutions company. Descartes is a global pioneer in bringing companies together in commerce.

Industry awards and recognitions include:

• VAI Cloud LLC, a cloud solution provider and a subsidiary of leading ERP software developer, VAI, has been awarded a 2024 Stratus Award for Cloud Computing by Business Intelligence Group. The annual business award program identifies companies, products, and people that are offering unique solutions that take advantage of cloud technologies.

• VAI Cloud LLC, was shortlisted and then named a finalist in The 2024/25 Cloud Awards program in the Best Cloud ERP Solution category. Winners for this category are pending announcement.

• VAI was included on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 List – CRN’s annual Solution Provider 500 ranks North America’s largest solution providers by revenue and serves as the gold standard for recognizing some of the channel’s most successful companies. VAI was recognized as a top solution provider for its Enterprise software.

“We’re excited about 2025 and looking forward to successful year for VAI and our customers,” continued Bob Vormittag. “The VAI team remains committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower our customers with the tools to safeguard their operations, improve decision-making, and surpass their competition.”

About VAI

VAI is a leading independent mid-market ERP software developer renowned for its flexible solutions and ability to automate critical business functions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail, and service sectors. VAI's software solutions are backed by a wealth of experience and a reputation for excellence that countless companies rely on. With specific ERP solutions for hard goods, food, and pharmaceutical companies, VAI has helped some of the most recognized companies address key industry requirements and deliver bottom-line results. VAI continues to innovate with new solutions that leverage business intelligence, analytics, mobility, and cloud technology to help customers make more informed business decisions and empower their mobile workforce. For more information, visit https://www.vai.net.

About VAI Cloud LLC

VAI Cloud, LLC is a subsidiary of VAI, a leading independent mid-market ERP software developer renowned for its flexible solutions and ability to automate critical business functions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail, and service sectors. As the primary provider for cloud deployment of VAI’s Software Suite, S2K Enterprise, VAI Cloud enables businesses to have a disaster recovery plan and high availability in place without all the complexities and expense. VAI Cloud infrastructure spans multiple data centers with full synchronization between redundant systems. Customers in VAI Cloud can add additional resources and updates are done without the need for downtime. VAI Cloud is continuously updated with the latest security, devices, security software, and infrastructure technologies. For more information, visit www.vaicloud.net.