SOLUTIONS \ HIGH VOLUME
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PROBLEM: Peak shipping volumes causing slow downs from physical bottlenecks to data log jams, carrier EDI slow down, decrease in speed of system response with hourly and daily capacity.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS) bundled with carrier options, multi-carrier Rate and Service Optimization (RSO), and drop ship options.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Volume capacitities in excess of one million per day.
- Web service and XML
- Legacy communications support
- Multi-carrier Rate and Service Optimization (RSO)
- Extensive shipment consolidator support
- Carrier compliant labels (PCL, Image, ZPL buffer output)
- Electronic/Digital label transport
- Real-time order/carton updates
- Rapid and automated manifest closes
- Scheduled and on-demand carrier EDI transmissions
- Host-scheduled data updates
- Large carrier configurable options
- Drop ship/Ship Point options
- Time-In-Transit logic
- Material handling interface
SOLUTIONS \ AUTO WEB RETURNS
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Increased costs and wasted resources from pre-printed labels, wasted invoice real estate, increased labor during carton billing, real time carrier control, unauthorized returns, need to improve control of return receiving process.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Web Automated Return Solution (WARS) provides real time execution of return labels to the end consumer and increased traffic to e-commerce websites.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Supports standard carrier returns
- Supports multi-carrier returns programs and customized customer returns
- Website integration for customer returns label printing
- Provides inbound visibility of returns, tracking, billing summaries and time-in-transit
- Returns become a profit center
SOLUTIONS \ PARCEL DATA WAREHOUSE
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Maintaining multiple-year parcel shipping data detail without effecting performance and creating segmented data security.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Parcel Shipping Data Warehouse (PSDW) holds multiple years of parcel shipping data for performance, monitoring, data reconciliation and historical modeling.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Historical carrier billing
- PLD (Package Level Detail)
- Parcel History from order creation
- Parcel History of all carton modifications
- Optimized performance for large database
- Carrier accountability billing
- Historical carrier time-in-transit
- Carrier time-in-transit performance
- Carton tracking
- Carrier negotiations
- Historical carrier tracking
- Carton error tracking
SOLUTIONS \ MULTI-DC
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Supporting multiple DC's can involve costly hardware and site support, a lack of (or complicating) data consolidation, and multiple carrier communications.
SOLUTION: The Multi-DC version of ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS) application with XML web services.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Optimized for high speed and high volume
- Multi-location Parcel shipping
- Multiple DC tracking and reconciliation
- Maintain individual accounts by DC
- Maintain accounts by Customer
- Maintain accounts by Carrier
- Single enterprise hardware solution
- Single EDI service for multiple locations
- Simplified security
- Consolidated enterprise reporting
- Reduced site-support
- Individual site shipping rules
- Simplified Rate and Zone updates
SOLUTIONS \ CARRIER RECONCILIATION
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Carrier overcharges, missed service guarantees, improper weights, non-authorized shipment, incorrect rates, and felonious accessorial charges, impossible carrier invoice audits.
SOLUTION: Manifest Audit Reconciliation Solution (MARS) bundled with the Parcel Shipping Data Warehouse (PSDW) for invoice by tracking number comparisons to actual rating, to provide discrepancy reporting for carrier credit.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Central data archive server (data warehouse)
- Retrieve Carrier tracking information at all scan points
- Carrier billing reconciliation
- Ability to receive carrier delivery and charge information
- Shipment carton level detail matching to invoice detail
- Centralize Reporting service for web based reporting
- The Sarbanes-Oxley required three-way match
SOLUTIONS \ SUPPLIER DIRECT
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Maintaining uniformity and control of vendors' shipments (direct to your customers), including labeling and tracking (i.e. vendor drop ships)
SOLUTION: Direct Vendor Ship Solution (DVSS), Manifest Audit Reconciliation Solution (MARS), and Parcel Shipping Data Warehouse (PSDW)
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Web-based system that gives visibility of all transactions to each vendor, and the visibility of those transactions to Managers/Hosts
- Provides vendors a view of SKU description and detailed order information
- Enable vendors to print and ship today or hold in system
- Provides ability to research and track orders
- Provide reports to vendors and Host of orders shipped and/or processed for inventory reports
SOLUTIONS \ WEB-ENGINE ONLY
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Supporting the complexities of one to many DC's, Drop Ship Vendors, or 3PLs with manifesting EDI and label services.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS) configured to support anywhere from one to thousands of shipping locations via Web Services, XML, or legacy communication methods with multi-carrier options and ship points.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Optimized for high speed and high volume
- Parcel shipment rating and service optimization
- Cloud solution for parcel shipments
- Web services, windows services, HTTP, XML
- Transportable label images: PDF, PCL, JPG, GIF, BMP...
- Label output file in printer code for specialized printers
- Single enterprise hardware solution
- Single EDI service for all carriers
- Simplified security
- Consolidated enterprise reporting
- Reduced site support
- Individual site shipping rules
- Simplified rate and zone updates
- Rapid deployment model
SOLUTIONS \ ZONE SKIPPING
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Maintain carrier zone tables to label and sort packages for LTL direct drops at strategic carrier locations to increase speed of delivery and reduce package charges.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS) bundled with carrier support and drop ship/ship point options.
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Configurable zone skipping, drop ship zones/ship points
- Supports time-in-transit tables by ship points/drop-ship zones
- Supports sort ID's per ship point/drop ship zones
- Supports multi-carrier ship points/drop ship zones
- Reports by carrier by ship points/drop ship zones
- Rating by carrier by ship points/drop ship zones
- Carrier EDI transmissions by ship point/drop ship zones
- Optional consolidated carrier EDI transmissions
- Best method rate shopping with ship points/drop ship zones consideration
- Reduce costs and transit times
- Simplify configuration
- Use of short-haul ground over expedited air, zero reduction to customer service
SOLUTIONS \ SHIPPING LABELS
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Carrier compliant labels with customer rules and enterprise cloud distribution capabilities supporting laser print technologies, print and apply, and thermal printers with electronic distribution via web services shipping and return labels.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS), Web-Engine Only, Web Automated Returns Solution (WARS), Direct Vendor Ship Solution (DVSS).
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Real time label production supported
- Batch label production supported
- Label priorities
- Advance label production for future ship
- Electronically stored until demand
- Electronically transmitted to the cloud
- Carrier compliant certified
- Additional printed information of support documents available
- International and export labels and documents
- Real time editing and updating of all labels via web service and Windows services
- Unified multi-carrier labels for shipping and returns
SOLUTIONS \ RATE SHOPPING
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: How to lower costs without harm to customers with emphasis on cost and service optimization to ensure promise date, lowest rate, perishable integrity, and temperature sensitivity through all available carriers and services.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS), Web-Engine Only, Web Automated Returns Solution (WARS), Rate and Service Optimization (RSO), Direct Vendor Ship Solution (DVSS).
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
- Large library of rating optimization algorithms
- Isolation of rate only optimization
- Isolation of time in transit
- Optimization of perishable and special product attributes
- Integration of rate, time in transit, temperature, special product attributes, delivery location special services, carrier special services and accessorial charges for inclusive rate optimization
- Data base optimization for highest volumes in excess of 1 million per day (RFF)
SOLUTIONS \ MATERIAL HANDLING
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Providing and integrating parcel shipping intelligence control to material handling equipment for scanning, weighing, in motion cubing, and package validation, in addition to execution of label printing, picking documents, sorter and sortation validation data.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS), Material Handling Windows Service (MHWS), Sortation Control, and Weigh Print and Apply.
Functions & Benefits
- High speed data exchange
- Saves labor, increases throughput, reduces cost
- Supports wireless devices
- High ROI
- Provides essential data for material handling decisions, validations and formatting for creation of carrier compliant labels
- Integrates with conveyor control, sortation, and print and apply equipment and existing software infrastructures
- Provides carrier compliant shipping labels for print and apply equipment.
- Supports industry standard interfaces to printer applicators
- Eliminates manual errors and manual handling of parcel packages
- Reduces required real estate for package processing
SOLUTIONS \ PRINT AND APPLY
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Integration of carrier and order data for execution of in motion printing for carrier compliant label printing, packing documents, sorter and sortation validation data.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS), Material Handling Windows Service (MHWS), Sortation Control, and Weigh Print and Apply.
Functions & Benefits
- Automate manual parcel package processing for shipping through automation
- Reduce manual labor in the processing of parcel carrier packages increasing throughput during peak seasons without additional labor saving critical distribution center floor space
- Provides essential data and formatting for creation of carrier compliant labels
- Integrates with conveyor control, sortation, and print and apply equipment and existing software infrastructures
- Prints carrier compliant shipping labels and directs printer applicator to apply label to conveyable
- ScanData provides industry standard interfaces to printer applicators
- Saves labor, increases throughput and reduces cost
- Eliminates manual errors and manual handling of parcel packages
- Reduces required real estate for package processing
SOLUTIONS \ CUSTOMER TRACKING
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Inability to identify delivery challenges in time to react and prevent customer service issues
SOLUTION: ScanData's Parcel Shipping Data Warehouse (PSDW) and Manifest Audit Reconciliation Solution (MARS).
Functions & Benefits
- Database will actively retrieve carrier(s) tracking files
- Offers visibility of parcel at every touch point
- Identify packages with missing delivery scans
- Avoid Customer Service issues
- Scans for proof of delivery, and delivery errors
- Identify loss prevention
- Package transit time verification
- In-network package location
- Zip+4 support
SOLUTIONS \ TIME IN TRANSIT
<< Previous | SOLUTIONS | Next >>PROBLEM: Accurately identifying time in transit to customers from actual manifested date to carrier delivery scan.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Parcel Shipping Data Warehouse (PSDW) and Manifest Audit Reconciliation Solution (MARS)
Functions & Benefits
- Calculates time in transit to customers from actual manifested date to carrier delivery scan
- Identify actual transit times for a specific shipment type
- View detail to the zip code level
- Identify alternate carriers to service specific zip codes
- View transit time for specific carriers to identify what services meet delivery commitments and are the most cost effective
- Time in transit can used to overcome temperature sensitivity in perishables, along with cost in short distance avoiding higher express services
SOLUTIONS \ PERISHABLE GOODS
<< Previous | SOLUTIONSPROBLEM: Parcel shipping of perishables requires the highest level of time in transit considerations; The issues of perishables increase the complexity of rate services and time options for accurate optimization.
SOLUTION: ScanData's Shipping Automation Manifest Solution (SAMS), Rate and Service Optimization (RSO), weather forecaster, temperature and disaster support.
Functions & Benefits
- Executes complex rating requirements including assessorial charges, service options, time-in-transit, and temperature effects, local consumer direct pickup/delivery options
- Areas where the temperature can affect the delivery, 365 day temperature tables allow ScanData to determine the best ship method and package type to select the best cost method in addition to signature to control outside exposure for customer and product service
- Elimination of heat or cold damaged delivered goods
- Secure addressee only pickup and delivery with acknowledgment
- Adult only addressee delivery confirmation
- Signatures can be used in high loss areas and also determine delivery requirements for controlled substances. Additional considerations for signature requirements to eliminate front door drops and extreme weather conditions