The GM-X Shipment subsystem tracks shipments for order-to-bill and procure-to-order processes.
Because the GM-X Party subsystem captures collaborative trading relationships, GM-X can be utilized by both customers and suppliers because the procurement and sales processes embrace both organizations. Traditional ERP systems were never designed to meet this requirement, but GM-X handles collaborative supply chain trading execution with ease.
Outbound customer order shipping
- Supports outbound customer shipments (goods being sent to a customer)
- Supports drop shipments (goods shipped direct from supplier to customer by distributor)
- Links each shipment to the relevant sales order
- Each shipment contains one or more outbound packages
- Each outbound package contains quantities packed for one or more sales order details
- Automatically tracks the status history for each shipment
- Supports identification of carriers as parties
- Supports multiple user defined transport modes and assignment of modes to carriers
- Supports multiple user defined delivery vehicle types
- Maintains information for any number of individual vehicles in a delivery fleet
- One or more shipments may be despatched together
- Supports one or more despatches per shipment for multi-modal shipments
- Each despatch has a specific carrier and may optionally be linked to a vehicle
- Prints bar-coded despatch labels with optional status
- Tracks the outbound packages in the shipments for each despatch
- Tracks delivery date and time with optional rejection reason and notes
- Optionally tracks transit times, mileage and fuel consumption for each despatch
Inbound customer order returns
- Supports inbound customer returns (goods being returned by a customer)
- Maintains and tracks return material authorizations (RMA) and details
Inbound and outbound shipping
- Supports inbound supplier shipments (goods being received from a supplier)
- Supports outbound purchase returns (goods being returned to a supplier)
- Supports multiple user-defined rejection reasons
- Shipments have one or more inbound packages with accepted and rejected quantities
- Inbound packages may identify order details, products and their related features
- Supports multiple user-defined receiving roles such as signing, inspecting and put away
- Tracks the inventory receiving roles and parties involved in each receipt
Outbound transfer order shipping
- Supports outbound transfer order shipments (goods sent from one facility to another)
- Links each shipment to the relevant transfer order
- Each shipment contains one or more outbound packages
- Each package contains quantities packed for one or more transfer order details
- Automatically tracks the status history for each shipment
- Supports identification of carriers as parties
- Supports multiple user defined transport modes and assignment of modes to carriers
- Supports multiple user defined delivery vehicle types
- Maintains information for any number of individual vehicles in a delivery fleet
- One or more shipments may be despatched together
- Supports one or more despatches per shipment for multi-modal shipments
- Each despatch has a specific carrier and may optionally be linked to a vehicle
- Prints bar-coded despatch labels with optional status
- Tracks the outbound packages in the shipments for each despatch
- Tracks delivery date and time with optional rejection reason and notes
- Optionally tracks transit times, mileage and fuel consumption for each despatch
Inbound purchase order and transfer order shipping
- Supports inbound supplier shipments (goods being received from a supplier or facility)
- Inbound supplier shipments may be linked to purchase orders (POs) or transfer orders
- Supports outbound purchase returns (goods being returned to a supplier)
- Supports multiple user defined rejection reasons
- Shipments have one or more inbound packages with accepted and rejected quantities
- Inbound packages may identify order details, products and their related features
- Supports multiple user defined receiving roles such as signing, inspecting and put away
- Tracks the inventory receiving roles and parties involved in each receipt
Supplier portal
- Allows suppliers to access the GM-X system to acknowledge receipt of POs
- Allows suppliers to access the GM-X system to update the status of PO details
- Allows suppliers to access the GM-X system to prepare shipments visible to buyers
- Supplier-generated shipments can be used as advance shipment notices (ASNs)
- Supports drop shipments (goods shipped direct from supplier to customer by distributor)
- Maintains current status, shipment date and external shipment reference
- Links each shipment to the relevant PO
- Each shipment contains one or more outbound packages
- Each outbound package contains quantities packed for one or more PO details
Outbound and inbound shipping
- Supports outbound customer shipments (goods being sent to a customer)
- Supports drop shipments (goods shipped direct from supplier to customer by distributor)
- Supports inbound customer returns (goods being returned by a customer)
- Maintains and tracks return material authorizations (RMA) and details
- Links each shipment to the relevant sales order
- Each shipment contains one or more inbound and outbound packages
- Each package contains quantities packed for one or more sales order or RMA details