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The fulfillment process may appear simple, but in actuality, there are a lot of moving parts involved, and the slightest snag at any stage of the process could throw the entire thing off, leading to delays, cost overruns, and ultimately dissatisfied customers. That’s why having the right software in place ensures your various teams operate … Continued

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Today’s fulfillment and logistics providers have experienced a major shift in their operations due to rapid increases in e-Commerce, consumer demands and a tight labor market. 3PLs are stepping up to fulfill more essential goods than ever before – from household items to groceries. The pandemic has driven consumers to make dramatic shifts in their … Continued

Enhance the Delivery Experience with Smart Shipping Solutions

  • Streamline your shipping processes with smart shipping solutions custom-made for the distribution industry.
  • Grow your shipping operations seamlessly without corresponding increases in errors or overhead.
  • Stay up-to-date and compliant with shipping laws and regulations with automatic updates.
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Intelligent Shipping Software for Distributors

Take the leap into the future of distribution with our cutting-edge Smart Shipping software. Today’s fast-paced world demands efficiency, transparency, and speed in order fulfillment and logistics management. With Advantive’s Smart Shipping solutions, you can stay ahead of the curve, cut costs, and exceed customer expectations with unmatched shipping intelligence.

Reduce Shipping Errors

Automated processes mean fewer mistakes, less waste, and more reliability.

Improve Customer Satisfaction

Reliable and faster shipments lead to happier customers and repeat business.

Increase Profit Margins

Reduce shipping costs and improve operational efficiency, ultimately enhancing your bottom line.

Smart Shipping Solutions That Transform Your Distribution Chain

Advantive’s Smart Shipping solutions streamline your distribution operations by integrating powerful tools and insights that ensure every parcel is shipped most efficiently and cost-effectively. By offering reassurance through an exceptional delivery journey, our scalable software ensures a seamless experience for both you and your customers, fostering trust and satisfaction throughout the entire process.

With just a few simple clicks, you can save valuable time on shipping logistics, streamlining the entire process for greater efficiency. Our smart shipping solutions include:

  • Rapid Label Production
    Quickly produce discounted shipping labels for all your online orders with ease. By identifying the optimal rate, you can choose to print individual labels or process orders in batches for swift multi-label generation.
  • Carrier Integrations
    VeraCore integrates with a wide variety of carriers, including UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, and others, providing you with more options and flexibility when choosing the best shipping solution for your business.
  • All-in-One System
    Comprehensive end-to-end shipping solution that runs right in your WMS, which eliminates the need for costly integrations with other products.

Always get the best rates with cost-smart shipping functionality. Our smart shipping solutions include automatic rate shopping that compares carriers in real-time for the best shipping rates.

  • Assesses the order’s weight, dimensions, and destination to select the most cost-effective carrier and service.
  • Improves customer relationships by reducing their freight costs and transit times for their orders.

Consolidate all of your shipping needs into a single, user-friendly platform, making it easy to manage your freight accounts and your clients’ freight accounts across multiple carriers and sales channels. Advantive’s smart shipping software provides the centralization you need to simplify the shipping process, streamline management for multiple carriers, and gain total visibility and control over your freight accounts. Features include:

  • Automated Billing
    Automatically bill each order to the appropriate freight account using Advantive’s smart shipping solutions. Eliminate the need for warehouse staff to make the selection when processing shipments, saving you time, and reducing errors.
  • Accurate Data
    Our flexible smart shipping software allows you to make sure you use the correct freight account for each order based on automated rules. Your team on the warehouse floor does not need to make any decisions.

Take advantage of discounts! By using discounted shipping services like UPS Surepost, UPS Mail Innovations, FedEx OneRate, and USPS Flat Rate Pricing, you and your clients can save money on shipping costs.

Give your clients full visibility and access to real-time data on their products and orders with our e-commerce fulfillment software.

  • Reduce the Number of Returned Packages
    Validating addresses helps to reduce the number of bounced or returned packages due to issues with delivery. This saves you time and money and also improves the customer experience, eliminating the frustration of having to deal with a lost or delayed package.
  • Reduce the Risk of Fraudulent Transactions
    Address validation flags suspicious addresses, such as those that are incomplete or do not match the billing address provided by the customer.
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  • Discover what products best fit your needs
  • No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch

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Optimize Your Supply Chain with Expert VeraCore Training

VeraCore has been providing SaaS order and warehouse management software to top third-party fulfillment companies for over 40 years. Our intelligent, robust, and highly adaptable 3PL software solution was built to help every warehouse and fulfilment organization work smarter at every step of the way. To help you get started, our eCommerce fulfillment experts at Advantive and VeraCore offer a variety of resources, training, and support options.

Advantive and VeraCore deliver a variety of training options to help your users understand the system quickly and efficiently

Our fulfillment experts have the resources and tutorials you need to succeed in eCommerce fulfillment.

Advantive is committed to providing responsive and reliable support to our VeraCore customers.

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What to Expect

  • Honest conversation about your training requirements
  • Discover what training programs best fit your team
  • Instant access to free, on-demand product training and documentation

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The Owners Guide to Picking the Right 3PL Software

Discover everything you need to know when selecting 3PL software for your warehouse and fulfillment operations.

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Maximize the Efficiency of Your Supply Chain with 3PL Software

Running a successful third-party logistics (3PL) fulfillment business has never been harder. Complexity is increasing, labor costs are rising, and customer expectations are at an all-time high. To proactively plan and automate your complex operations, you need an end-to-end fulfillment platform like VeraCore. VeraCore is industry-leading SaaS solution that brings together order and warehouse management, account management, billing, shipping, and eCommerce integrations into one easy-to-use platform.

Everyday, third-party fulfillment centers like yours orchestrate getting the right product to the right person at exactly the right time. However, delivering a seamless e-Commerce fulfillment experience can be riddled with headaches and costly errors.

To keep your clients happy and protect your bottom line, you’ll need smart warehouse software that is powerful, flexible and intelligent enough to work for your unique warehouse and client needs. VeraCore’s smart warehousing management is the foundation of our smart 3PL fulfillment platform and successfully streamlines key touch points within your warehouse operation while completely eliminating inefficiencies. Our warehouse management capabilities include:

  • Inbound: Efficiently receive inventory from all your clients and suppliers to ensure the inventory you manage is always accurate and accounted for.
  • Outbound: Manage and control the end-to-end order fulfillment process so you can stay on top of tight deadlines and SLA’s.
  • Inventory Control: Give your customers peace of mind knowing their inventory is always accounted for and data is complete and accurate.
  • Kitting: Keep clients happy by tackling their complex and unique requests like kits, product bundles, special deals or cross-promotions.
  • Reports and Dashboards: Real-time access to data is essential to running your fulfillment business and your client’s businesses. Having the data you need when you need it will help you and your clients make better business decisions.

The eCommerce surge is putting pressure on warehouses to get orders out the door faster and with more accuracy. The challenge? Your clients are unique, each with their own requirements on how orders should be managed. In a high-volume, fast-paced environment, you need order management software that can help you automate these fundamentally important processes.

That’s where VeraCore’s smart order management comes into play. Our order fulfillment software lets you capture, sort, and organize orders from multiple sources efficiently with rules-based automation. Order management capabilities include:

  • Integrations: e-Commerce shoppers expect to get their orders quickly. To keep shoppers happy, it’s critical for online retailers to have their shopping cart directly integrated with their 3PL’s systems.
  • Order Processing: Receiving orders efficiently into the warehouse is crucial to meeting SLAs, keeping clients happy and protecting your bottom line.
  • Intelligent Automation: Defining rules at the start of the order process ensures orders follow the correct workflow, making the lives of your warehouse team easier and reducing labor costs.

Give your clients full visibility and access to real-time data on their products and orders with our e-commerce fulfillment software.

Easily manage freight accounts and generate shipping labels for the most common parcel carriers.

Automate your invoicing process and integrate your accounting software to cut billing time from days to hours.

Transform Your 3PL Business with End-to-End Fulfillment From Advantive & VeraCore

VeraCore’s SaaS order and warehouse management software was built to support eCommerce fulfillment and 3PL organizations. At Advantive, our team of 3PL and fulfillment experts are dedicated to helping clients improve their processes and get the maximum return on their software investment. With more than three decades of experience, we know the problems and challenges you face and provide the flexible solutions, quality improvement consultations, hands-on training, and unrivaled customer service you need to succeed today.

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Our fulfillment experts have the resources and tutorials you need to succeed in eCommerce fulfillment.
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Virtual & Onsite Training

Advantive and VeraCore deliver a variety of training options to help your users understand the system quickly and efficiently.
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3PL Software Fully Integrated with Leading eCommerce Platforms

By integrating key applications in your fulfillment operation, you can create more streamlined workflows, saving you time and money. The VeraCore Integration Hub allows you to manage integrations for all your clients in one convenient place. By using our flexible hub, you can add integrations, manage integration exceptions, and remove integrations for all your clients. To learn more, speak to a fulfillment expert.

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What to Expect

  • Free 20-minute call with a product expert
  • Live demo tailored to your industry requirements
  • Discover what products best fit your needs
  • No games, gimmicks, or high-pressure sales pitch

Elevate Your Logistics with Smart 3PL Fulfillment Solutions

  • Gain unparalleled visibility and control over your entire fulfillment process with smart 3PL fulfillment solutions for distributors.
  • Automate routine tasks, from order processing to billing, allowing your team to focus on strategic operations.
  • Grow your business confidently, knowing that your fulfillment operations can scale seamlessly with you.
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Centralize Your 3PL Operations for Maximum Results

In today’s fast-paced world, the logistics and distribution industry faces increasing demands for efficiency, accuracy, and reliability. Now, more than ever, third-party logistics (3PL) providers need a robust solution to navigate these challenges effortlessly. Advantive’s Smart 3PL Fulfillment solutions are designed not just to meet these demands but to redefine them, setting a new standard in the logistics and distribution sector.

Improve Operational Visibility

Synchronize all your distribution operations within a single, intuitive platform, from inventory management to shipping and returns.

Enhance Process Efficiency

Automating tasks like order processing to billing boosts efficiency, cuts costs, raises productivity, and frees your team for strategic work.

Increase Shipping Accuracy

Keep track of inventory levels in real-time, ensuring accurate stock counts and avoiding stockouts or excess inventory.

Modernize Your Distribution Operations with Leading-Edge 3PL Fulfillment Software

In a landscape where timing and precision are paramount, lacking the right technological support can leave you trailing behind. Our Smart 3PL Fulfillment solutions focus on giving you proactive planning, flexible configuration, and overall automation for your complex operational needs; empowering you to take control, streamline your operations, and elevate your service delivery.

Streamline order processing from all channels, reducing manual errors and increasing processing speed. Advantive’s smart 3PL order fulfillment software lets you capture, sort, and organize orders from multiple sources efficiently with rules-based automation.

Ensure your inventory data is always accurate and organize your workflow – no programming required! Our 3PL fulfillment solutions include advanced warehouse management functionality with features like pick and pack sequences, zone picking, and efficient route planning.

Easily manage freight accounts and generate shipping labels for the most common parcel carriers with Advantive’s smart 3PL fulfillment solutions. You can also simplify the returns process for both you and your customers, making it a smooth and hassle-free experience.

Automatically generate accurate and timely billing, ensuring that all charges are captured and reducing the administrative burden. Advantive’s Smart 3PL Fulfillment software includes smart billing that automates your invoicing processes by integrating with your accounting or ERP system to cut billing time from days to hours.

Give your clients full visibility and access to real-time data on their products and orders with our proven e-commerce fulfillment software.

Key business logic can be automated for 3PLs to get it right every time. By setting automated rules for your fulfillment accounts, you can reduce the time and effort it takes to manage them. That equates to reduced travel time in the warehouse and reduces time it takes to bill your customers each month. With Advantive’s smart 3PL order fulfillment software, this is done through:

  • Integrations: Plug and play allows you to just plug in credentials for your clients’ systems and you are ready to go.
  • Outbound: Workflows and decisions can be automated to minimize labor costs for order processing, picking, packing and shipping.
  • Billing: Billing can be automated to calculate fees based on activity in the WMS. There’s no need to run reports and the hassle of manually billing customers.

In fulfillment there’s no such thing as a ‘one size fits all’ solution. Your clients are all unique, each with their own requirements on how orders should be managed and executed. Advantive’s Smart 3PL Fulfillment solutions give you the adaptability and flexibility to:

  • Configure tailored workflows/rules/automation to meet each customer’s needs. Generally, 3PLs have a few standard workflows, but there are always edge cases that don’t fit the bill. Our platform can accommodate this with ease.
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  • Discover what products best fit your needs
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  • Improve Cash Flow – Unify your financial processes and accurately manage complex cashflows into and out of the company based on real-time data and financial reporting.
  • Boost Employee Productivity – Give your staff the process automation and modern tools they need to access real-time data, manage customers, and do their jobs more efficiently every day.
  • Accelerate Revenue Growth – With increased efficiencies, reduced operating costs, quicker production, and more customers, you can expect to see massive improvements and fast ROI.

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Experience The Difference

Try a free demo and see why we are the established market-leading provider of purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing and distribution companies around the globe.

With Kiwiplan MES software, we have created plant-specific business rules and customized the solution to fit our exact paper packaging needs. It has helped us increase visibility across all facilities and stay competitive in difficult market conditions.

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Thomas M. Herlihy

Executive Vice President

Kiwiplan provides us with the visibility and critical information we need to analyze and determine profitability at the item level. This accurate flow of information from customer service to the factor floor has also helped us eliminate costly mistakes and identify potential problems sooner.

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Brad Albright

President and CEO

Distribution One actually helps our business be more productive. We operate our warehouse more efficiently because our software performs like a world-class product. And that’s not marketing hype. We trust in its reliability. It is one of the best decisions our company has ever made!

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Improve client satisfaction with VeraCore The customer is always right There is a reason this cliché is so overused; it’s true. A satisfied fulfillment client often becomes a loyal one, assuring future business and spreading word of their experience. Conversely, clients might swear off a business based on one negative experience. When you consider all … Continued