Shipping Platform
The all-in-one shipping platform for flexible shipping processes
One of the leading shipping platforms in Europe with optimized carrier selection based on transit time, costs and CO2 emissions. Scalable integration into existing systems enables a seamless shipping process for pallets, parcels, hanging garments and dangerous goods, including a returns portal and freight cost accounting.
Key challenges that Shipping Platform overcomes
Connected to all business processes and external systems
A direct connection to your online store, WMS or ERP enables a seamless process. The integration of existing systems and external service providers is realized via the API-first approach. With a connection to over 30 external systems, there is a suitable selection for you too.
No more complex shipping processes but seamless transparency
Shipping Platform allows you to define individual shipping rules. These automate the selection of the desired carrier and tariff for each order and in the returns process. The integrated Track & Trace function offers seamless shipment tracking and status updates such as Proof of Delivery.
Manage orders for multiple clients and save costs and time
Equipped with multi-client capability, Shipping Platform enables centralized management of multiple customers and their transport and shipping orders. The freight cost management add-on ensures full control over all freight costs, including invoice verification.
The All-in-One Shipping Solution
The digital shipping platform from VCE Solutions.
To manage international transportation for multiple clients with different needs, a digital solution is necessary. This will ensure that all shipments are processed automatically and transparently, with a variety of shipping options. To keep costs down while meeting the demands of customers, stable supply chain, fast shipping, and agile transportation management is essential. The all-in-one package provides a convenient and efficient way to manage the entire shipping process digitally, making it seamless and automated.
Shipping
The whole process in one system
Our interface technology offers a flexible connection to upstream and downstream systems such as ERP or WMS and, thanks to seamless system integration, enables a workflow that is precisely tailored to your processes.
Direct online store connection
Our solutions connect seamlessly to marketplaces, your own web stores, sales, fulfillment or store systems and thus offer you the missing interface between store, warehouse and shipping.
Dashboard and reporting functions
Keep an overview of the most important process data with configurable dashboards and analyze your structures and developments with the reports.
Carrier
Easy Carrier integration
Benefit from the flexible selection of our more than 180 connected carriers and parcel services for the highest shipping service and best rates. Our shipping platform is ready to go with 5 carriers (CEP & forwarding) of your choice.
Automatic Label Generation
Get your shipping labels automatically in less than one second and hasten your shipments by utilizing the generated packing lists and delivery notes for quicker processing.
Optimal shipping and freight conditions
Take advantage of the favorable contract conditions of our strong partners or integrate your own contracts and gain cost advantages with every shipment.
Create Customs duties documents automatically
To make international shipping as easy as possible, the corresponding customs declaration CN22/23 is automatically generated together with the shipping label.
Track & Return
Shipping and return tracking including branded tracking site
With our Track&Trace and Proof of Delivery, it’s not just your customers who always have their order status in view. With shipping and returns tracking, we bring transparency to your supply chain and make all shipments and packages traceable in real time.
Integrated self-service returns portal
Save time with automated returns processing and benefit from improved product availability and a lower returns rate via the integrated service portal.
Different carriers for outbound and return delivery
Choose the optimal carrier for your shipments and returns and offer your customers the service they need with flexible return shipping.
Supply Chain Event Management
Keep track of all events along the supply chain at all times with tracking of pickup orders, warnings of unforeseen events, and status updates including timestamps.
Sales Growth
Selection of the desired delivery time
Improved shopping experience
Carrier selection by the customer in the check-out process
Integrated PUDO finder
Increase in sales through cross-selling
Individual tracking page tailored to specific target audience and corporate identity including product placements and links to complementary products.
Post Purchase Communication
Automatic tracking notifications to the customer, for example via email, for every step after the completion of the order.
Smooth product handling
Shipping of cartons, pallets, hanging garments and special product handling, hazardous goods and drop shipments without restrictions.
Selection of the desired shipping service provider
Function to select the desired shipping provider and corresponding service for the end customer.
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Freight Cost
Shipping Platform
You want to make significant savings on your freight costs?
To ensure that you retain full control over your freight costs, booked rates and invoices, it makes sense to expand the Shipping Platform. We have developed the freight cost management function as an individual add-on for this purpose:
Add-On
Freight Cost Management
Significant savings on freight costs
All shipping offers and rates
Freight cost simulation including evaluation of quotes
Automatic invoice analysis
Preliminary calculation of all freight costs
Plan and manage freight costs before they occur with the integrated pre-calculation of all shipment and package-related costs and surcharges.
Configurable Dashboards
For each user, there is a personalized view of the most important process data with individually configurable dashboards featuring drag and drop functionality.
Reporting functions and personal KPIs
Freely configurable reporting functions for, among others, carrier monitoring and evaluation as well as runtime analysis, shipment structure, cost structure, and forecast.
Invoice verification and receipt import
Import digital invoice data on a individual position level, as a PDF and into the system.
Re-calculation of all freight costs
Recalculation of expected freight costs for shipped shipments based on valid freight conditions and subsequent data transfer for, among other things, controlling and automatic invoice verification.
Automatic fare calculation
Price and rule-based selection of the best shipping or transportation service provider and desired services.
Interface for BI-Tools
Data transmission to external BI platforms such as QlikView for dashboards and reports in a familiar user interface.
Cost transparency
Complete transparency through the direct post-calculation of freight costs immediately after shipment, before the incoming invoice from the booked carrier is received.
Access in a Snap
- One solution ready for immediate use
- Cloud native architecture for scalable and flexible functions
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Software made in Germany & hosted in Germany
- Direct integration of (partner) systems such as WMS, ERP
- Easy connection to existing IT infrastructures (API first approach)
- Web-based and mobile working, without client installation (also offline)
- Available in German and English
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