Maintaining Control and Visibility of Shipments from Dock to Dock

In a complex procurement environment with hundreds or thousands of suppliers, unauthorized and poorly documented shipments can create a bottleneck at your receiving dock and increase your procurement costs. Without the ability to link each shipment to its original purchase order, you run the risk of paying for supplies and equipment you don’t need. Additionally, the capability to track shipments from dock to dock allows you to keep your logistics costs down by eliminating last-minute expediting of shipments and, instead, optimizing on-time deliveries. Finally, the same visibility allows for a proactive response and real-time visibility to your most critical inbound shipments.

Our Solution

OneSCM creates a more collaborative environment with a clear and visible chain of custody across the supply chain. You, your suppliers and your logistics providers share an online environment to place and review orders, request a pickup, label a package and track shipments, keeping everyone involved on the same page. Shipment information can directly update your tracking system to create a comprehensive audit trail of exactly where each item goes and who delivered it.

Each shipment undergoes a “trial receipt” against your receiving controls. Suppliers can’t print a shipping label until all the information is verified and complete. Unauthorized or out-of-tolerance shipments never leave the supplier’s location. When your dock workers scan an incoming shipment, they instantly know what to do with it: get it ready for putaway, flag it for inspection or transfer it to where it’s needed.