 Malvern
Shipping Server
Overview
The
Malvern Shipping Server is the ultimate solution for
any organization looking to build comprehensive, scalable shipping
and/or rating functionality into a third-party or homegrown business system. Installed
within your own network, this multi-carrier, "black box"
shipping toolkit enables rapid integration of carrier-compliant rating and
shipping functions into your own business applications with minimal
coding and on-going maintenance.
With the Malvern Shipping Server, your company can manage your
rating and shipping via multiple carriers from a universal interface and centralized location.
This will enable your
company to reduce shipping system maintenance and compliance concerns.
Features
The
Malvern
Shipping Server API provides shipping and rating functions including best-way carrier selection, carrier-compliant
label printing, comprehensive
reporting, and end-of-day carrier manifesting
& uploads for all major carriers including DHL, FedEx,
UPS, US Postal
Service, FedEx SmartPost, SpeeDee, and LTL. Additionally,
the Malvern Shipping Server provides...
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An industry standard TCP/IP sockets interface for minimal integration effort
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Always up-to-date carrier rates and technology compliance
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Ability to support multiple origin shipping locations from a single,
centralized server
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A scalable solution that will grow with your organization
Benefits
With
Malvern's efficient design, users can gain carrier-compliant,
enterprise-wide shipping
functionality for one or numerous origin shipping locations all from a
single, centrally located server.
With this extremely cost-effective solution, comprehensive,
shipping-related functions for all major small parcel and LTL carriers can be implemented using a single, universal interface. Additional
benefits include:
Accurate,
real-time freight quotes...
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Integrated into your internet shopping cart
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Accessible by your order entry and customer service personnel
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Applied in automatic best-way carrier selection processes
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Available to shippers for making last-minute re-routing decisions
Carrier-compliant
shipping labels...
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Available for "upstream" labeling functions (Pick/Pack stations)
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Generated for automatic print & apply equipment
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Can be routed to local or networked printers throughout the office
and warehouse
Multi-carrier
shipping...
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Available to desktop (front office) users across your organization
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Integrated with in-motion, fully automated conveyor equipment
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Available at any logical stage in your distribution process (pack, ship,
etc)
Scalable
With
a single server capable of handling several thousand transactions per hour,
multiple remote distribution facilities can be easily managed from a single
location. The Malvern Shipping Server API is extremely well suited to handle
daily transaction volumes ranging from 20 to over 20,000. Additional peak or
continuous throughput capacity can be obtained as well as fail-safe redundancy by
integrating one or more additional, centralized servers.
How
it Works
The
required connectivity for the Malvern Shipping Server API is a sockets-based
interface using the TCP/IP protocol.
The internal, multi-carrier engine and all of its carrier-specific components reside
on a single server. All carrier functions (with the exception of
end-of-day processes) are processed locally
(no communications with remote carrier APIs required) enabling split second response times for complex transactions including
multi-container shipment comparisons between multiple carriers.
Shipping Server Customer Feedback
July 2009:
We shipped over 4,000 packages yesterday [the first day] with no
Shipping Server issues. We saw a BIG
speed/response increase. Typically with a GUI system, the operators would
be waiting for the system to print the label before scanning the next
package. Now the system is waiting on the operator!!
--
IT Manager,
TriVita
May 2009:
[A Malvern
Customer Service Rep] is the most wonderful, knowledgeable, determined and
helpful support person (by far) I've ever worked with. She's amazing.
--
IT Manager,
FMI International
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