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Vendor - Warehouse Interaction: Interactions
Vendor - Warehouse Interaction: Interactions
Vendor - Warehouse Interaction: Interactions
These portals might include dynamic routing tools to match loads to best-fit freight
terms, including order consolidation; choice of carrier and use of multi-stop truckload;
static or dynamic pooling; zone skipping; triangle routes; and backhauls. Some portals
are also used to manage purchase orders and shipment visibility, exchange EDI data, and
resolve chargeback issues, as well as to generate documents for bills of lading,
commercial invoices, and labels. Vendor portals are increasingly integrating with
consignee applications including transportation, warehouse, and order management
systems to send and receive complete inbound shipment data, and execute scorecards
and chargeback reports.
"We're moving toward broader portals, including a single sign-on to multiple functions,"
says Stephen Craig, senior managing partner, freight management for enVista, a supply
chain consulting and IT services firm based in Indianapolis, Ind.
Such innovations are making it easier for vendors and consignees to communicate and
achieve compliance improvements.
It's also easier for vendors to get through the route request process than entering a portal
cold and using an error-prone manual data-entry process. This approach also allows the
consignee to run optimization on the routing, and match route requests to 856 ASN
transactions so they can measure vendor performance from purchase order through
advanced shipping notice.
Products and other housewares. "We see that happening continuously as more retailers
come up to speed."
Retailers are also extending their compliance requirements to private label suppliers,
and even agents, according to Compliance Networks.
One significant technology advancement is the ability to apply analytics to data. Dynamic
routing applies optimization algorithms to orders, routes, and carrier selection, enabling
consignees to analyze vendor performance history to uncover patterns and identify root
causes of systemic shipping problems.
Data2Logistics furthers the compliance cause by tapping its expertise as a freight audit
and payment provider to close the loop on compliance. "Because we invoice, we can see
what the vendor did, such as whether it used the least-cost carrier and the actual cost of
shipment," says Holm-Andersen.
Warehouse – DE Interaction