Powerful 3PL Software For Your Business
Strabo Partners builds industry leading 3PL software to provide your third-party logistics business an end-to-end software solution. Strabo Partnered Logistics is a full service solution to give third-party logistics providers robust supply chain management software designed to increase output and streamline operations. Strabo’s industry leading cloud-based software is built to be the last warehouse management system needed.
The Modern Third Party Logistics Company
In order to compete in the modern supply chain world, contract manufacturers and general 3PL businesses need to automate and innovate workflows wherever possible. With more third party warehouses coming online across the world than ever before, the competition continues to become fierce. While competing on pricing is critical, many manufacturers and brands are looking for a 3PL business they can trust to have robust order fulfillment, intelligent routing, and a trustworthy inventory management system ensuring product is in the right place at the right time.
With the continued meteoric rise of ecommerce, especially since 2020, brands are looking for fulfillment centers to partner with to ensure customer satisfaction. Today, the customer experience is everything for a brand; to compete as a 3PL having strong logistics operations is critical. There are several important questions to ask to stay competitive. “What is my ERP’s modernization strategy? What does my ERP’s warehouse management software look like? What am I doing to automate order fulfillment and provide my customers with real-time feeds to their data?"
The Value of a Strong Warehouse Management System (WMS)
As a third-party logistics company, it is critical to have a strong warehouse management system or WMS for short. Strabo Partnered Logistics uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, a modern cloud-first SaaS ERP. By utilizing Dynamics 365, Partnered Logistics provides fulfillment operations end-to-end order management, robust invoicing and accounting, strong warehousing with mobile device support, and much more. With constant ecommerce activity, the order management lifecycle is an important piece of the WMS puzzle. There are many considerations when building out the order management and WMS strategy.
It is not just about ecommerce, order fulfillment requests come from brand contracts with big box retailers utilizing EDI as well. It is important to ensure the 3PL warehouse management system at least has a framework in place to support EDI. In nearly every implementation Strabo assists with, EDI is an important aspect of the implementation. Dynamics 365 maintains robust API support for smooth integration to outside platforms. Strabo Partnered Logistics powered by Dynamics 365 ensures, no matter the order source, the WMS and order fulfillment process remains smooth and efficient.
When shopping for 3PL software solutions, transportation management is an important consideration. During the pandemic and beyond, shipping costs continue to fluctuate and cause headaches for distributors and consumers alike. With Dynamics 365 and Strabo Partnered Logistics, configurable hooks into shipping platforms exist to provide real-time visibility into shipping costs and transit times. The TMS supports complex rating and routing rules for the most advanced scenarios in shipping. The advanced transportation management solution provides solutions for single stop and multi-stop routes for scalability.
To learn more about some of the excellent features around inventory management, warehouse operations, and more inside Dynamics 365 Supply Chain management, check out our page specifically about Dynamics 365!
3PL Software Billing
Features in a 3PL WMS are important, but proper billing support is also crucial. Ensuring customers receive proper billing for storage, loss and damage, labor, manufacturing charges, etc make all the difference. Customers want complete visibility into what their inventory looks like, how much they are charged, and more. Strabo Partnered Logistics unlocks key features for 3PL businesses and contract manufacturers alike to provide a complete ecosystem around the 3PL and co-packing industry.
A key piece of third-party logistics software is support for multiple billing scenarios and complex rulesets. Strabo Partnered Logistics provides both 3PL and co-packers billing for all common transactions in shipping, receiving, warehousing, and production inside of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. Just like with TMS, highly configurable setup allows for billing periods, immediate billing, and automatic billing for inventory storage. This type of optimization allows 3PL and co-packing businesses to set billing based on brand or even SKU if needed. With these easy to configure rulesets, cost savings are near immediate with in-house billing customer service greatly reduced.
Since Strabo Partnered Logistics works in conjunction with the ERP’s inventory management software, loss and damage tracking is made simple. Users may configure the system to automatically take all allowed breakage and loss transaction by transaction or on a time period basis. Data entry on breakage is also highly configurable, users may settle discrepancies including payments, billing, inventory replacement, and write-off.
Automate and refine today
Now is the time to take steps towards a digital transformation unlocking the best 3PL wms features possible to take your business to the next level. Be sure to reach out to our team today to learn more about how Strabo Partnered Logistics will unlock the robust supply chain management solution you’ve been looking for!
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