Infoware’s 3PL warehousing removes many mundane tasks plus improves your stock accuracy making your service quicker and significantly reducing the daily hassles you currently have. Remove data entry; give customer’s access to stock levels and stock movement progress and proof of deliveries; improve stock accuracy with scanning; calculate invoice charges and then you will suddenly find yourself with time you did not know you had.
Infoware 3PL Warehousing Business Benefits
Did you know?
Infoware Services, in addition to our easy-to-use 3PL Warehousing solution includes all our accounting components as well. No third-party software and integration costs. Infoware provides full accounting through to financials, BAS and STPV2 compliant payroll –even includes a Fixed Asset and Hire Purchase register making it your comprehensive warehouse management system software.
Your customers demand accurate stock control
Give them full transparency to see stock levels; where stock is in the warehouse and stock aging controls. You can separate saleable stock from quarantine or under bond stock but still provide full visibility.
Did you know?
In addition to showing stock levels, Infoware also shows how many expected days SOH you have.
Allow customers to immediately answer their questions via 24/7 web portal
For job movement status and stock levels. Infoware automatically sends an email or EDI message of stock arrivals and picking confirmations. Customers can perform online stock aging or batch tracking checks plus retrieve past copies of PODs [no admin effort for you].
Did you know?
Customers can login and allocate customer orders to specific BBD’s or batches for picking.
Your customers demand barcode scanning accuracy
Of all stock movements and stock aging. While possible to implement without bar code scanning – why not give your business that extra level of accuracy and control, and credibility to your customers.
Did you know?
Infoware handles multiple bar codes for the same product code configuration.
Remove data entry
Remove data entry bottlenecks and you can improve service levels for your customers – no roadblocks of order entry or other admin bottlenecks. NO data entry mistakes. Data entry is replaced by creating orders from PDF documents emailed by customer; formal EDI exchanges or getting your 3PL customers to enter orders via web portal along with their invoice ‘paperwork’.
Did you know?
No more picking errors because of data entry errors.
Run Planner
Infoware’s Run Planner automatically creates runs based on postcode or as you prefer for each consignee. The drop sequence will default but you may override as required. Customer orders can then be directly picked by order; by pallet or wave picked as is most efficient for you. Inners are picked separately to cartons/pallets so they can be picked and packed first for shipping.
Did you know?
After orders are picked, it takes only 1 click to generate the manifest; and each 3PL customer’s invoice ‘paper work’ is generated in drop sequence. Also if you choose POD tracking then Sign on Glass app is automatically updated. Another Infoware Services example of time saving efficiency especially when warehouse staff are under the pump to dispatch orders.
Meet your customer’s demands
with flexible picking algorithms – including FIFO by default; strict rotation, pick by batch, pick to weight and other algorithms. For inner/each/bottle picks, perform these first and then track each carton with its content.
Did you know?
With item repacks a contents label is produced tracking all items within the carton as well as tracking the carton.
Surprise your customers with extra customer care with no effort
Allow your 3PL customers to view days stock on hand to help with their stock management and procurement (their system probably does not show this); send amber and red alerts as date sensitive products approach BBD. There may even be other alerts you can automate for your customers to show your appreciation.
Did you know?
You can save some customers hundreds or thousands of dollars by automatically advising them of their stock approaching BBD to sell rather than writing off later. Now you are adding value to partnering relationships with each customer.
WMS invoices ready for review and sending?
Handling, freight; storage charges; admin fees automatically calculated plus includes any additional charges you have added.
Did you know?
We have Infoware clients who automatically have invoices emailed at the end of each week with all fees automatically calculated. No admin effort to create weekly invoices – imagine that?
Add RF Scanning accuracy *
When items need to be tracked individually with their own unique barcode, such as serialised stock, individual pallets/bales or cartons such as meat products, Infoware allows cartons to be “tally scanned” onto a pallet when received. Each pallet when moved or dispatched takes its tally scan summary and carton details so each carton is handled once only – but included in dispatch/container weights when shipped.
Time Saving
Knowing where every product is:
- by code
- by batch
- by due date or
- by salable, quarantine, damaged or unsalable status
Saves considerable time in picking, significantly reducing errors and improving stock accuracy. With Infoware’s Services EDI gateway to your customers reduce job turnaround by removing time to process jobs with associated issues and costs.
Some more time savers include:
- Make customer phone stock enquiries a memory of the past! Significantly reduce customer enquiries by proactively communicating with them with no effort. Email your customers automatically on completion of stock in and stock out movements. Stock status reports can be emailed daily or weekly. Backed up by Infoware Services i4 Portal for customers to track stock on hand and job status (past and present).
- Remove human inconsistency and let Infoware use its various placement algorithms to place stock in the warehouse.
- Reduce time for picks by presorted pick locations.
- Wave replenishments saving labour. Reduce out of stocks during picking by floating pick faces.
- Scan pallets with variable weight cartons once on receipt in warehouse. Scan pallet label on dispatch with automatic carton and weight tallies. Track each shipment down to individual cartons if any customer product recall issues.
- Save considerable time with semi-automatic invoice generation ready as soon as you’ve completed stock movement jobs. Each customer can have a different rate card for each type of service provided. Infoware calculates weekly storage charges automatically with repetitive and possible charges already generated on job completion.
- For exporters, automatically interface to One Stop removing time to manually lodge information and inaccurate data.
- Streamline your admin office and remove hassles of data entry and associated delays and errors with Infoware’s EDI Portal.
Value & Service
Dramatically reduce your IT costs while enjoying enhanced functionality and efficiency. For a low monthly subscription, you get the full Infoware business management solution, data hosted in a secure environment, Infoware updates plus included support and more.
“An added benefit is that our clients can review stock aging, right down to carton level in real time. Infoware’s technology affords Doboy’s clients that often elusive, competitive edge!”
Includes Integrated Accounting
No need for additional third party accounting. Infoware’s 3PL warehousing solution includes Infoware’s full accounting – general ledger; BAS; Debtors; Creditors; Payroll; Bank Reconciliation and Assets.