3PL and Drop Ship Collaboration

The ability to fulfill orders accurately and on-time is critical. Using third-party logistics (3PL) providers and enabling trading partners to manage shipments on your behalf (drop shipments) extends your ability to deliver improved customer satisfaction at a lower cost.

Why 3PL & Drop Ship Collection?

Order fulfillment costs are driven by labor required to pick, pack, and stage the shipments, freight costs, and time spent reconciling shipments and payments. Controlling these costs is the key to maintaining the profit margin. Delivering timely and accurate orders is the key to delighting customers. Managing payments and reconciliation maintains good relationships throughout your value chain.

With the right tools, technologies, and processes, you can track, trace and control shipments from external locations using industry-recognized best practices, delivering value to internal and external customers while lowering costs.

How Can TAKE Solutions Help?

TAKE Solutions provides you the ability to collaborate with external trading partners and 3PL providers – irrespective of how IT savvy they are. We specialize in delivering solutions to:

• Communicate orders; and more importantly, order changes
• Provide bar-coded labels and manifests for each shipment to protect your branding on shipments
• Validate each shipment against real-time data to check for credit holds and other exceptions to prevent shipment
• Track inventory levels at remote locations

Our 3PL and Drop Shipment collaboration solution provides:

• Web-based collaboration with secure user authentication and role-based access
• Configurable if…then rules written to respond to order conditions and control the results
• Real-time integration and validation with your ERP system of record
• Performance scorecards and dashboards to measure performance against key performance indicators
  

Products/Services

• OneSCM