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You've maximized profitability throughout your company.
Don't forget about shipping.
The shipping department is often the last frontier of profitability
in a company. Executives may assume that shipping rates are fixed
costs that can't be reduced; they may not know where to look for inefficiencies;
or they may be unaware of savings that could be realized through minimizing
errors.
ABOUT OUR COMPANY
Founded in 1998, SmartLinc, Inc. has a reputation for delivering
shipping software that fully integrates into your business environment. Our feature rich,
multi-carrier rating engine has set the industry standard. Every industry and every company
has an impact on its service levels, pricing points, financial returns, and reputation in the
market. SmartLinc has positioned itself as a leader in transportation optimization, specializing
in the deployment of shipping, pick/pack and web based solutions that are scalable to our clients needs.
VALUE PROPOSITION
While providing a single source consultative-based transportation solution to
you, SmartLinc's service offerings eliminate deficiencies in your shipping models through:
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Multi-carrier Shipping Systems, with all associated benefits. |
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A focus on both inbound and outbound transportation management marketplace with
professional best-in-class customer integration capabilities, sales staff, and field service team. |
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A range of fully featured products that can both meet the needs of large companies
and still offer a cost-effective solution for midsize companies. |
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Development capabilities to enhance current proprietary products and engineer new
products to meet future marketplace needs |
The customer benefits of a fully featured and integrated TMS include the following:
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Selection of the most economical carrier service, insurance rate, as well
as the ability to maximize the discounted rates for consolidated shipments. |
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Carrier and trading partner compliant bar coded labeling, and line item
detail, allowing access to new customers and participation in Trading Partners. |
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Management reports to allow negotiation of more competitive rates
from carriers, evaluating staffing levels, better inventory control, line item detail, proof of
shipment through tracking system, produces advance shipping notices and interacts
shipments through EDI. |
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Improved customer satisfaction, minimizing ship errors, pick/pack
errors through automatic notification if ship weight is out of tolerance with expected weight
based contents, allows order status to be readily available to customer service, either on a
web site or from a customer service representative. |
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Improved cash flow by allowing instant invoicing at time of shipment. |
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Transformed customer logistic department into a profit center. Report
capturing the increment between actual expenditures and list shipping/insurance prices and
handling fees that are charged to the customer. |
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Increased productivity and streamlines processes by:
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Eliminating re-keying of data by accounting and other
error-prone manual labor. |
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Allowing customer service representatives to have on-line status of each order
available at their site to efficiently handle customer inquiries. |
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Automating manual processes to include order confirmation, order tracking, inventory
updates, invoice generation, automatic printing of bills of lading, ship consolidations;
automate rate shop comparison and carrier choice. |
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Reports designed to management specification. |
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The net result of these benefits is a Return on Investment (ROI) period
of less than a year.
WHY CHOOSE US
SmartLinc has maintained a leadership role as one of the top transportation providers
in the country. We work with you through the entire project cycle including information gathering,
statement of work and timeline execution, all the way to deployment, training and ongoing support.
We have a vested interest in your success.
TYPICAL SAVINGS
SmartLinc customers typically see:
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