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ShipLink administration tools provide complete control of every process
In every case, companies strive to make shipping support their unique workflows and business objectives. Unfortunately, few solutions can meet this challenge with anything but expensive professional service engagements.
ShipLink was designed to overcome this obstacle with the industry’s most powerful and sophisticated administration tools. The ShipLink Administration System governs every aspect of your deployment, from ERP connections and data retrieval through transaction processing and post-shipment communication. Click-to-configure parameters and quick-to-customize business rules let you tailor shipping from any number of locations and workstations. Intelligent implementation procedures and reference libraries let you ‘go live’ in hours with little impact on IT resources.
System Setup
The ShipLink Administration System Setup Module provides complete control of:
- ‘Ship-From’ Addresses, including the default primary and multiple rule-based alternatives for drop shipping other purposes
- Devices, including direct and network-connected scales and label printers
- Table Maintenance, including those for common country codes, currency codes and units-of-measure
- Administration Options, including users, passwords and permissions
- Documents and Reports, including rule-based generation processes
The ShipLink Administration System Setup Module also manages:
- Carrier Options, including the default carrier/service, and the automatic startup and integration of carrier-provided programs
Carrier Setup
The ShipLink Administration System Carrier Setup Module manages ShipLink’s interaction with UPS WorldShip, USPS Stamps.com, FedEx Ship Manager, DHL EasyShip, Purolator E-Ship, SpeeDee and LTL Freight Management Systems.
The Carrier Setup Module:
- Maintains multiple accounts and profiles
- Defines carrier label output data
- Translates carrier and service codes
- Maintains rules required to generate freight instructions, set freight classes and populate reference fields.
The ShipLink Administration System Carrier Setup Module also manages the automatic, rules-based output of international documents, including:
- Commercial invoices with custom assignment of responsibility for duties and taxes
- Composition and filing of EEI Header data
- Composition of NAFTA/USMCA declarations with custom Producer Codes
- Composition of EEI Goods data with custom Schedule B Numbers and Units of Measure
- Composition of custom Goods Descriptions and Gross Weights
ERP Setup
The ShipLink Administration System ERP Setup Module manages ShipLink’s interaction with your ERP.
The ERP Setup Module:
- Defines default and alternate data sources
- Defines shipment processing methods, including multi-order validation, order type, post-shipment ERP update and rule-based drop shipping
The ShipLink Administration System ERP Setup Module also manages the automatic, rules-based application of freight charges, including:
- Freight charge conditions – factoring customer profiles, order histories, discounts and ‘Free Freight’ programs
- Conditional freight charge and cost calculation
- Freight charge allocation – factoring order value or order weight for multi-order shipments
The ShipLink Administration System ERP Setup Module includes utilities to maintain data-driven resources used throughout the shipping process.
- Formula Builder maintains a library of standard C# business rules with full creation, editing and testing capabilities
- Popup Messages maintains a library of rule-based instructions that appear when staff process certain types of shipments