Shipping and Logistics

Proactively push instructions, drive pick lists, manage freight costs, generate precise paperwork, and increase on time delivery.

Initiate

  • Run shipping area using assigned queues, various pick lists and open order report options.
  • Satisfy open sales orders and relieve appropriate shop order and location inventory with a few clicks.
  • Launch shipping with a multitude of bar code options, including tablet-based pick lists, bar coding of finished goods serialized stock, and advanced shipment building from staged pallet scans.
  • Support advanced shipping scenarios such as vendor drop ships, warehouse consignment pulls, and RMAs.
  • Generate advanced shipping paperwork and labels, where applicable, from upstream in the production process.

Progress

  • Utilize ‘pending’ shipment features to prepare shipping paperwork days in advance.
  • Coordinate logistics, with shipment plan RFQs, multi stop planning, and 3rd party logistics integrations.
  • Build pallets interactively from plant floor workcenters or staged shipping areas.
  • Build, label, and get electronic signoff on part, pallet, and truckload shipments before departure.
  • Keep customers informed with email or EDI based advanced shipping notices (ASNs) and internally coordinated notification queues.
  • Alert or stop shipping based on a variety of options, including PPAP signoff, open NCMR or quality issues, credit holds, and certification requirements.

Deliver

  • Automatically generate standard and unique paperwork: Bill of Lading, Packing List, Internal Certification (at high levels of complexity), and trace based raw material certifications.
  • Affix any type of label to the shipment; standard or customer specific, master label or child label, with full trace to packing list and EDI transactions.
  • For one customer, 75 different customer required label formats are generated directly from the software.
  • Integrate easily with 3rd party platforms: UPS Worldship, FedEx, UPS, and higher end logistics platforms.
  • Report on advanced and historical On Time Delivery and other shipping metrics.
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