Auto Inbound Shipment to systemize your business

Our Solutions

We utilized the Auto Inbound Shipment features to fulfill our clients' demands:

Vendor routing guide
We created an official inbound routing guide with the client's cooperation and authorization and delivered it to all participating suppliers. The client's expectations for supplier performance in terms of product readiness, scheduling, routing, product quality, documentation, financial settlement, etc., were all stated in the guide. Expectations and conditions of engagement were formally communicated after they were disseminated to and acknowledged by each provider.
The receiving department of the client used a Quality Control checklist to track various infractions committed by the vendors regarding product condition, pallet quality, packaging, shipping documentation, labeling, bar-coding, etc. The routing guide also served to support this Quality Control checklist. The completed Quality Control checklists were utilized as helping evidence for the customer and supplier to levy charge-backs owing to non-compliance.

Download Purchase Order
We set up an automatic download of the client's open purchase order file to acquire access to and control open purchase orders. The daily file contained purchase orders for domestic and foreign goods and standard and blanket purchases. Purchase orders placed by the client's clients' clients were likewise recorded.
Daily orders are downloaded into the TMS system. The TMS enabled the outsourced operations department to execute and correctly handle inbound shipments on behalf of the client daily. The customer wanted to outsource the daily freight management function to Land-Link. Additionally, "HOT" loads and partial releases under blanket purchase orders were supported.

Scheduling and Routing
We were able to better schedule and route inbound shipments for the customer thanks to the download of open purchase orders. The temporary off-site consolidation process was stopped and replaced with standardized, structured delivery slots of one hour based on the number of doors open to receive incoming orders and the number of carriers supporting the logistics process (usually three core carriers at any given time). To provide the customer with a single source solution, imports were processed as part of the procedure.

Daily Scheduling and Planning
We connected with each supplier on a per order, per shipment basis to assure prompt delivery of the goods to the client by using the specified delivery dates provided to each purchase order minus relevant transit time.
Additionally, the client had complete control over all carrier and route selections on a per-shipment basis, which eliminated inflated freight prices, early and late deliveries, overages, shortages, and port congestion. Using ASNs, ACNs, EDI transmissions, the Management Sheet, and the Pre-Load Report further improved daily planning and operational control.

Service Level maintenance and Sustainability
By maintaining excellent contact with the customer, supplier, and asset-based carrier, VNMT ensured that the required service levels were maintained at all times per shipment basis. The continued advantages of the program were also made possible to track every cargo from pickup to delivery as well as its assistance for service and cost performance reporting.

Performance metrics
Various performance metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been used and are still relied upon to assess cost and service performance as well as to spot any other trouble spots that require improvement.