No other Warehouse Management System Understands Third Party Logistics like PULSE-3PL 

Tailored solutions for your third party logistics supply chain

It is a system that has evolved over many years of front line operational service with a diverse range of leading 3PL companies.And, as such, it is the WMS that most clearly understands the exacting demands of contract warehousing and those organization’s clients.

For instance – and before it does anything else – PULSE-3PL sets out to deliver exceptional operational economies.This in response to the highly competitive and price sensitive nature of the 3PL business in most international locales.

But the system also clearly recognizes that being able to offer the ‘right price’ is simply the starting point in winning, effectively servicing, and retaining client business.

PULSE.3PL FEATURES

3PLs typically suffer from revenue leakage due to the fact they fail to capture value added (billable) services and processes performed on the shop floor. This is not unexpected when warehouse storeman are not equipped with the tools to capture processes in real time as they are delivered. PULSE.3PL provides a feature rich solution to ensure that the unique requirements of any individual customer or product can be effectively managed and accurately invoiced. PULSE.3PL provides the following capabilities: 

• Integrates with clients existing IT systems – which may well include sales order processing, ERP, manufacturing, freight management and export documentation applications among others.
  
• Receive data from and return data to its clients in the way that those organizations wish. And that can span anything from traditional paper based communications, through the use of EDI to the use of the Web.
  
• Fully meet individual client picking, packing and labelling demands of the clients’ own customers.
  
• Comply with all GS1 and UCC international labelling standards.
  
• Manage client product by any requested criteria such as shelf life, serial number, batch number, lot number, or production date.
  
• Effectively assist in product recall.
  
• Contribute to the security needs for high value products, or those such as drugs, where strict control of those areas in which product is stored and those staff able to handle it, is mandatory.
  
• Cater for clients’ extreme requirements as well as their normal day-to-day business activities. These possibly including such things as new product launches, high volume product promotion campaigns and unplanned or seasonal peak order levels.
  
• Automatically handle the unique requirements demanded by different products.
  
• Provide fully integrated EDI Scan Packing to support pick and pack in a single operation.
  
• Manage ‘client stock ownership’ that clearly defines who owns what stock, even if certain common stock items (SKUs) are owned by multiple clients.
  
• Provide a detailed ‘client profile’ for each and every individual client. This specifies all of the PULSE.3PL facilities and features that are required by each individual client.
  
• Cater for any number of clients.
  
• Handle any product range and the huge differences in the ways in which different products need to be managed.
  

OPERATIONAL COST SAVINGS

Any advanced warehouse management system will, of course, help its users derive substantial operational cost savings. And PULSE-3PL is certainly a leading achiever in this context.

With PULSE-3PL, for instance, users can enjoy:  

• 10-30 percent greater utilization of existing warehouse space.
  
• 30 percent increase in the productivity of warehouse staff and utilization of materials handling equipment.This via automatic work allocation, improved accuracy and reduced clerical / administrative tasks.
  
• Reductions in warehouse error rates to 0.1 percent or less.This removing the often considerable costs incurred in rectifying these mistakes and eliminating related penalties that may be imposed under client contracts.
  
• Consistently faster turnaround of client sales orders, once again minimizing the likelihood of incurring non-performance penalties.
  
• A superior use of transport resources on dispatch of goods by using PULSE’s advanced order selection and load planning functionality.

THE DEMANDING NEW WORLD OF e-COMMERCE

More and more traditional clients of 3PL’s have embraced eCommerce and have implemented web based procurement strategies. So it is no surprise that their expectation is to close the loop on the transport and delivery side. In other words, e-procurement must be matched with highly effective e-fulfilment.

Which in turn means that a 3PL company using a WMS that does not deliver an effective e-fulfilment service, may very quickly find that they are no longer even vaguely competitive. Our e.PULSE web portal provides the answer, and when teamed with PULSE.3PL you are well equipped to satisfy even the most demanding client requirements.