Solomon Shipment Altara

Advanced Shipment Management allows you to be able to build shipment detail, automatically create shipping labels, charge shipments, create a bill of lading and provide customers with shipment tracking information. What does that mean to you?

The demands placed upon companies to provide the information required to produce an advance ship notice document are typically not provided for in their current information system. For distributors that ship a variety of products or components, this can create an enormous amount of work. More and more trading partners want to be able to simply scan bar codes to find out what products are in each box, which boxes are on what pallet, what pallets are being shipped by which carrier, the shipment size and weight, and so on.

Imagine being able to automatically build shipment detail information and print it on UCC-128 compliance labels — at the same time you're creating and printing the pick ticket for an order. And, with the same integrated system, create bills of lading and track shipments via the World Wide Web.

Now, with Advanced Shipment Management, you can do all of this. This optional module adds precise and efficient shipment functionality to Order Management and e-Commerce Gateway–EDI Edition so you can easily meet your customers' demands.

Advanced Shipment Management is a powerful module that works with Order Management and e-Commerce Gateway–EDI Edition to build shipment detail information for sales orders.

This is what Advanced Shipment Management can do for you.

Automatically Build Shipment Detail
Advanced Shipment Management is designed specifically to give you the fastest, easiest, and most flexible way to build detailed shipment information. With Order Management and e-Commerce Gateway–EDI Edition installed, you can simply activate Advanced Shipment Management to choose your set up options which include: calculate weight and dimensions, build containers at pick ticket creation time, allow standard carton breaks, have single container shipments, auto generate labels and print labels at pick ticket release.

With all options selected, Advanced Shipment Management automatically does the work for you in creating pick tickets. It can build shipment detail for standard-carton and pick-and-pack shipments and create and print labels as well.

Flexibility to Change or Build Shipment Detail
The Container Builder screen gives you full flexibility to change your shipment or, if setup container options are not activated, to build shipment detail yourself.

You may also use the Container Builder screen to build pallets and assign tare levels. Building a pallet is as easy as opening the Container Builder screen and scanning bar codes from each of the boxes for that pallet. You can review your pallet hierarchy on the Ticket Map and print a pallet label.

After a shipment is built and the pick ticket is confirmed, you can easily create a bill of lading by selecting from a variety of specifications provided on the Bill of Lading screen.

To quickly check the status of shipments that have gone out, you can use the Container Tracking Inquiry screen to search on shipment PRO numbers, serial container IDs or tracking numbers. From this screen, you drill down to shipment detail on the bill of lading or go to the Shipper, where you can launch a Web browser to access your carrier's online tracking system.

Advanced Shipment Management Features:

Place contents of an entire pick ticket in one shipping container which can be set to build automatically during pick ticket creation
Divide standard-carton quantities that were pre-built during pick ticket creation
Build container detail information for individual pick tickets line by line
Calculate shipment weight and dimensions by package or by shipment based on inventory master data
Automatically generate and print UCC-128 compliance shipping labels at pick ticket release time
Enter individual bill of lading classes per item. All items on a bill of lading are summarized by class. You can indicate if a particular class is a hazardous material and enter mixed classes within containers for bills of lading
Create and print bills of lading for single or consolidated bills
Search for shipments and/or pick tickets by PRO number, serial container ID, or tracking number by simply clicking a button
Track shipments instantly via the World Wide Web for carriers such as UPS, Federal Express, Airborne, and Viking.

Key Benefits:

Easily customizable and highly scalable

Supports connectivity with customers, vendors, business partners and employees

Robust, comprehensive functionality all-in-one source

Supports operations across countries, sites, languages and currencies

Key Features:

Microsoft Solomon SCM supports your entire business and delivers these key functions:

Advanced Shipment Management

Bill of Materials

e-Commerce Gateway - EDI Edition

Inventory

Landed Cost

Order Management

Order to Purchase

Purchasing

Web Order

Work Order

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