Solutions

Send POs to your vendors and print GS1-128 carton labels, receive packing lists, ASN messages, acknowledgements, invoices etc. easily and electronically. View all shipment information on our Portal, ‘TradeLinkOne’.

Monitor all packing and shipping progress on the Portal in real-time as vendors and logistic partners scan goods. Receive smart alerts with real-time updates of shipment data as  it’s uploaded from vendors’ and logistic partners’ operational flows.

Create, schedule, and share your report templates with our cloud-based ‘Report Writer’. Define time ranges on the dashboard to view work plans and keep track of milestones.

Vendors can support each customer’s compliance practices and associated business rules using ‘PackOne’, a thin server-client application that is able to scan and verify all types of packing instructions – bulk, pre-pack, ratio packs, store pack, etc. With scan-and-pack, order accuracy exceeds 95% and with RFID scan-and -verify, the packing accuracy goes to 99.9%. The packing solution supports multiple buyer level customers and can automatically determine which buyer label format is required. TradeLink’s recommendation is to follow GS1-128 carton label standards.

TradeLink’s packing solution will ensure vendor compliance of key carton attributes including capacity weights and dimensions. Flexible system design can pull requirements from purchase orders, predefined standards or third -party requirements to enforce packaging compliance standards associated with carton type usage and carton stuffing. In addition to standard pack compliance, TradeLink also validates carton weights to support packing compliance.

Deploy automated packing compliance by utilizing vendors’ packing history into their current packing process. The solution is able to recognize repeated patterns of packing information from a customer purchase order. As a result, packing and shipping processes gain further efficiencies and streamlining.

By shipping direct, the importers save on average 20 percent on distribution costs. In addition, millions of inventory dollars are reduced resulting in not only a more efficient supply chain, but also a stronger balance sheet.

TradeLink helps many of its customers realize more cost savings and maximize inventory turns with  easy-to-install and effective supply chain technology cross dock applications. Today, we support hundreds of Origin Direct or Cross Dock programs on behalf of our customers.

The packing applications are installed and supported at Origin sites. All carton labels – either DC or Customer Retail are applied on the shipping floor and come with all of the compliant electronic messages such as the 856 Advance Ship Notice, 810 Commercial Invoice, 997 Functional Acknowledgements, and others. Today, TradeLink is shipping direct to over 600 retail customers.

Additionally, TradeLink is now compliant with all of the FedEx ground shipping labels and can support package level shipments. This allows importers to take advantage of consolidated rates of an ocean carrier and also benefit from ground shipments deconsolidated at destination and delivered by ground service.

Track WIP Production Milestones with real-time updates on the cloud as items (apparel, footwear, bags, etc.) move through production. Configurable milestones support manufacturing processes. Production statuses update via an Android handheld device reading QR codes or RFID tags and are visible in real-time to all relevant stakeholders in the cloud. Smart email alerts along with reports and dashboards allow management to track progress and make production decisions as needed.

With the right tools to increase visibility of production progress, customers can enhance production efficiencies and shipment timeliness. Standard reports and a user-driven Report Writer allow the production and supply chain teams to pinpoint and resolve exceptions to the process. 

All too often, WIP Production Milestone tracking is a manual, spreadsheet operation usually completed at headquarters. Upgrade to using the latest in bar coding technologies – such as QR codes or RFID – along with handheld readers that are deployed at production site. Achieve significant savings in time, labor. and overall error occurrence.

Much like finished goods, raw materials start with an electronic purchase order sent to the raw material supplier. The raw material supplier applies barcoded labels to the items and sends the advance shipment notice to the production facility. The production facility scan receives the inventory and updates the WIP tracking system. Reduce raw material shortages and gain visibility of raw material inventory.

Production facilities can trace items, raw materials, or bill of material items back to the supplier. Item tracing helps factories comply with regulatory requirements, and also helps QC and production managers analyze and take steps to address variances in the quality of products and materials.

Traceability provided by the WIP tracking system is paired with electronic, ‘chain-of-custody’ documents to ensure reliable transparency all the way through to the finished product.

An efficient WIP starts with raw material inventory visibility and coordination. Our raw material solution is cloud-based and integrates with most WIP applications.

Subscribe to Buyers’ streams of serialized IDs and generate custom item-level labels for grey-market deterrence. Isolate parts of your supply chain to serialize items based on various destinations’ different serialization laws.

Leverage our existing scanning processes in factories and check if an item’s ‘digital fingerprint’ has indeed been activated for serialization before it can be packed. Simultaneously, transmit packing activities to buyers for their track-and-trace efforts using robust standards such as EPCIS.

Supplement existing DC/3PL destination processes with validation of shipments at a serial (EPC) level. Improve inventory accuracy and generate enhanced documentation for any expense offsets. Communicate updated inventory to external parties with EPCIS-based communication.

A suite of trade finance products are now available to TradeLink customers. These products are tailored specifically to the buyer or supplier and bring benefits in the form of working capital gain or gross margin improvement.

Define rules per buyers’  supply chains to control different schedules for vendors to submit proof of delivery. Rely on our smart alerts to notify parties of upcoming submission deadlines.

On average, a vendor with 60 monthly shipments spends approximately USD 200 and 3 days to physically send paper documents. With our solution, the costs and time are halved due to the elimination of physical document exchange.

Logistics agents can approve or reject shipment documents. Robust collaboration tools accelerate the resolution of discrepancies. The result is fewer payment delays.

Regardless of buyers, isolate the shipment documentation between agents and vendors on the cloud. Vendors can upload and store packing lists, invoices, and proofs of delivery to a central document repository for up to 7 years.