Warehousing Services Data Management

1. Generate payroll for the warehousing services company; WSDM has been designed to handle the unique pricing, invoicing, and employee compensation structures of the warehousing services industry.
2. Produce online invoices to their customers.
3. Provide consolidated and detailed reporting for distribution centers, carriers, shippers, and the warehousing services company.

• Electronic data gathering and reporting at the dock -- tracking the job and service data of the Unloading Service Provider.
• Internet/extranet web-based administration and reporting for secure and easy access to data.
• For the Unloading Service Provider:
  • Fully configurable services (unloading, loading, refueling, spotting, pallet repair, etc.)
  • Yard check services (tracking per trailer fuel level, temp, pending refuel alerts, etc.)
  • Customizable pricing plans per center and per customer.
  • Employee and Job management.
  • Fraud Detection and Cash Management.
  • Customer Invoicing and Employee Payroll.
• For the Distribution Center:
  • Carrier, Shipper, and Productivity analysis: unloading time, pallets/week, cases/month, managed vs. common loads, etc.
  • Up-to-the-day charge and rebate reports.
  • Ability to view and analyze trends within a center or across multiple centers.
• Job reporting by PO including driver signatures and electronic copies of receipts.

• More accurate data collection.
• Digital capture of signatures, printable receipts from handheld and server.
• Fraud detection for the unloading company to make sure trucks coming to your center are not defrauded by unloading company employees.
• More timely data access. The ability to generate reports on data uploaded at the end of a shift.
• Customizable and detailed billing. Have the unloading companies invoice you in the easiest way possible for your internal departments (e.g. multiple invoices on a single billing cycle, assigning load charges to specific departments appropriately).

• What was I billed today? The ability to see charges the next business day.
• What kind of loads came in today, last week, last month, etc.? The ability to see a breakdown of loads based on type of load (transport, backhaul, common carrier, etc.)
• What kind of loads are coming in that are common carrier? The ability to see the detail for all loads not paid for by the center.
• Questions about a particular load: The ability to search by transaction #, PO #, or by date range for a particular service and then to view the details of that service including a copy of the receipt.
• How much are my loads costing me? The ability to view a cost analysis report (Daily Activity Review) to see the charges incurred from the unloading company, broken down by load type.
• The ability to view and print past invoices.

• All of the functions used by a warehouse manager are available.
• Ability to compare costs between centers.
• Ability to review common carrier loads across the corporation to highlight opportunities for creating contracts with distributors.
• Ability to measure the overall cost of unloading to the corporation.
• Ability to analyze loads across the corporation to check for inefficiencies (high labor loads, partially loaded trailers, etc.)

• Retrieve detailed information about each service performed on your trailers or the trailers you are transporting:
  
  #cases, #pallets, #items, PO #, Door #, Distribution Center, Unloading Company, unloading charges, start time, end time, and a copy of the signed receipt.
  
  Data can be retrieved by PO #, distribution center, or by date of service.
  
  
• Summary report of services performed on a center-by-center basis providing averages for cost/load, pallets/load, and cases/load.
• Build your own custom reports. Any data collected by the WSDM system can be used to fi lter and organize your results. For example, a custom report could return all loads that had more than 1500 cases and that cost more than $100 to unload.

• Timely access to transaction data relating to the services performed on your trailers and for your load.
• Use the data to audit the unloading charges reported by the driver.
• Compare actual loading/unloading times with time trailer spent in center drop yard.
• Examine transaction details such as receipt, service data, and digital signatures.