Streamline your warehouse management system and reduce your shipping time with BOLD VAN's distribution enablement system (DES) — a low-cost, versatile application that will change the way your product is shipped.
BOLD VAN identified the need for streamlining warehouse management in a single platform. These days, companies are using multiple shipping carriers, and navigating through each shipper's portal is cumbersome. No two carriers are exactly alike, with different EDI requirements and shipping processes. Thus, BOLD VAN created DES to tackle this problem.
DES allows you to manage the entire pick-and-ship process from one place for many types of shipments. DES's compatibility with all major retailers and carriers means gone are the days of logging into multiple carrier and customer sites. You will happily manage the entire operation from one single portal.
DES takes charge of: EDI requirements, creating UCC labels, automating the entire shipping process (including ship notices), dock planning for both deliveries and shipments and finding inefficiencies in your warehouse.
In this article, we expand on a variety of ways DES handles EDI compliance and how it will revolutionize your UCC labeling.
EDI compliance is a critical part of product movement, and BOLD VAN DES ensures that it's taken care of for you. You'll be able to send EDI-compliant shipping documents such as advance ship notices and integrate them with all of the major carriers.
Most companies require EDI compliance on the following:
Whether your company ships to a warehouse, a store or a customer, DES handles all the EDI requirements.
Let's talk about how DES can help streamline the creation of UCC labels. First, the UCC or Uniform Code Council institutes product identification standards across multiple industries and rules for using a barcode to communicate different pieces of information. The rules for labeling packages, products and shipping are very specific, and the UCC label complies with the requirements.
UCC labels are needed on shipments to distribution centers or other stores (we aren't talking about drop shipments directly to customers here). Without DES, the UCC number and “ship to” information are manually typed into the label and/or bar code printer application every time a label is created.
Our intuitive DES application makes this process a distant memory. The technology can handle printing either one label per carton, one label per pallet or labels for pick-and-pack shipments. (Pick and pack is a type of order fulfillment that includes boxes of different products inside a larger shipment box; it can include a host of items all going to the same customer.) In each scenario, the supplier simply needs to click the order and select print. DES knows if it should print UPS, FedEx or UCC/GS1 labels based on the carrier information. DES also manages multiple carrier printer locations for integral integrations such as UPS, USPS and FedEx and allows visibility into order size.
For example, Razor USA uses BOLD VAN's DES application to print UPS and FedEx labels. During the busy holiday season, Razor USA prints 5,000 to 10,000 labels a day — a simplified process that is a manual task for most companies. To learn more about how we helped Razor USA, read Case Study: Razor USA.
It's time to see how DES can be your game-changer — contact BOLD VAN: call 844-265-3777, email info@boldvan.com, or start your three-month trial.
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