From Lanham Associates in Georgia, United States comes E-Ship Navision

 

E-Ship integrates the entire packing and shipping function within the Navision database. Until now Navision customers have interfaced with external shipping systems. These external systems, while doing a good job of rating and shipping packages, do not have knowledge of the items being shipped. Using E-Ship for Dynamics NAV it is possible to reduce costs while increasing both efficiency and accuracy.

 

E-Ship has the ability to automate and enable planning and the execution of shipping from the time of the sales order through to the shipping manifest. The seamless integration of E-Ship with Microsoft Dynamics NAV means that there is an inbuilt functionality and access to data that can be lacking in other third party solutions.

 

By working with the Pack Line Scanning feature it is possible to can drive your shipping accuracy to almost 100%. Not only do they know that they shipped the correct items in multiple packages, but they know which items are in each package and the tracking number of the package. In addition, the weight of each package substantiates that the quantity the customer ordered is actually shipped. E-Ship uses the Dynamics NAV unit of measure functionality to convert and pack multiple units of measure for a single item.

 

Typically this is utilised when a single item contains different barcodes based on its unit of measure. When a sales order is completed, the E-Ship user is notified if the packed quantity is not equal to the quantity that was to be shipped. For backordered shipments, E-Ship has the ability to automatically update the sales order with the packed quantity. An added benefit of package level detail is the ability to print a summarized packing list for the last package in a group, which shows the contents of each package and the associated tracking number.

 

The integration with the Microsoft Stack continues with the ability to ensure that this information can also be automatically sent via E-Mail to the customer with CC and BCC addresses included as needed. This is extremely helpful when drop shipping product to a customer’s end customer. Shipping can now be controlled from one centralised database, which can be installed either on-premise or in the cloud, but the larger benefit is that it can be managed by those who hold a clearer picture of the process, rather than in most current circumstances, where the delivery remains in the hands of those who are doing the shipping and can become disjointed.

 

The process of installation is simple and fast, and allows for development and customisation to begin immediately ensuring that the add-on works for your company no matter the size and complexity of the organisation.