MetaShip is a powerful shipping module that enables Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to communicate directly with parcel, freight, 3PL’s, and consolidators for a complete enterprise shipping solution. Freight quoting with rate shopping, packing with scale integration, load management, and export shipping and paperwork are just some of the features you get with MetaShip. (Supports most carriers in the US and Canada, as well as UPS, FedEx and DHL)
Multi-Carrier Shipping
with MetaShip
MetaShip is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates directly into your Business Central System. Our product provides a real-time connection with the carriers with no middleware. As a Gold Partner of Microsoft, we deliver the best Business Central applications in the industry. MetaShip lets you shop rates, process orders, track shipments, and verify deliveries, all from the Business Central interface.
Achieve complete control over every element of your multi-carrier shipping process with MetaShip.
Ensure you are delivering the right product, in the correct amount, to the right address, every time with Scan Pack as a part of your MetaShip solution.
With the Scan Pack shipping module, you’ll be able to:
- Scan items into boxes or pallets to verify the contents of shipments
- Scan container identifiers to capture dimensions, type, and weight
- Scan multiple quantity groups with multiple scan codes per product
- Audible confirmations and errors keep users on track
- Scan and enter quantity provides flexibility for large quantity shipments
- Mix scan pack and drag-and-drop pack for more flexible workflows
- Pack, rate, ship without keyboard/mouse through scanning shortcuts
- Block shipments for incorrect item scans or if full order is not scanned
MetaShip Unit of Measure Feature Further Streamlines Picking
Efficiency and Warehouse Operations
The biggest benefit to UOM is picking efficiency. A disorganized warehouse is the largest time suck for the businesses. This extends to inefficient picking and packing procedures. This speaks directly to the metrics that ShipHero can move for our clients. One way to increase warehouse efficiency is to increase picking efficiency. One way to lower the number of mis-picks is to increase picking efficiency.
UoM inventory helps you understand how you should count and track your stock. It informs your team of how a product type shall be coming in or out in quantities, such as boxes or pallets, and ensures that the quantities sold for customers are correct, such as a piece of T-shirts instead of boxes. Different stages of products will require different UoM inventory to purchase, track, and sell items. Therefore, it’s important to understand the types of UoM, how it benefits your inventory management, and how you can digitalize the UoM.
Providing shipping accuracy for mid-size businesses through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Consolidate multiple shipments into one load
- Seamless integration with Dynamics 365 functionality
- Realized Savings in the warehouse from a streamlined process that provides information in real-time
- Rate shop through multiple carriers to ensure the best price and timeline, every time
- View tracking numbers and exact shipping charges in real-time
- Lower Shipping Costs from a real-time rate shopping integration with all major and domestic carriers
- MetaShip uses the various API and supports multiple carrier
- Offer superior customer service by automatically creating packing lists by packages and order, label printing for packages and other tasks
- With Power BI, MetaShip helps to analyze shipping data and give you access to a lots of real-time shipping metrics such as; total shipping spent per month, per location, by the shipping carrier, and much more
- Uncover new opportunities to save throughout your shipping process
Better customer service
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Package management
MetaShip enables any business with shipping needs to fully manage tasks within Business Central such as automatically creating packing lists by package and order, label printing for packages and other tasks.
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Capture package level details
Capture serial numbers, lot numbers, and assembly component details at packing time and increase shipping accuracy by scanning items and comparing them to the sales order and picking document. Using USB scanners, the easy-to-use interface scans barcodes to the package and includes automatic edit functions.
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Accountability
Place an accurate value on each package in a shipment, report what items are in each box, inform customers what is in each package, and where the package is throughout the entire process.
Analyze your shipping with the free
Power BI app
The MetaShip Analysis app is designed to analyze shipping data from the industry-leading shipping add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central – MetaShip.
- Total shipping spend by month
- Total shipping spend by location
- Year over year comparisons
- Average number of shipments per week
- Total spend by shipping carrier
- Average spend per shipment weight
- Total spend by service level
- And more…
ERP & Ecommerce Integration
Streamline shipping, accounts receivable and customer service. Plug-and-play interfaces provide the warehouse with instant access to orders, items and invoices. Simply scan the document number from your pick sheet to auto-populate the ship screen.
Multi-carrier/Multi-mode
Ship with small parcel (including regionals), LTL or 3PLs from one application; rate shop both modes with one click or have MetaShip auto select the carrier/service based on custom parameters.
Quote/Rate Shop
Give the entire office the power of rating small parcel and LTL directly from the Sales Quote.
Multiple Printing Options
Print shipping labels and documents (including international forms) separately OR go for an integrated packing list + shipping label.
Branded Email
Tired of boring carrier-generated email notifications? So are your customers! Build brand awareness, provide item-level detail and send emails out as shipments are processed.
Dashboard
No need to go back to the warehouse to gather additional detail on a shipment! Give the front office and management instant access to shipment history, metrics and reporting.
Warehouse
Retrieve orders package information defined in inventory management solutions.
EDI Integration
Automate your Electronic Data Interchange with our Integrated EDI Solution for Microsoft Dynamics Business Central and MetaShip.
Ship Product Faster with MetaShip
Shipping is an imperative part of your wholesale distribution business. MetaShip provides robust functionality for receiving, picking, packing and shipping to ensure your customers get the right product when they want it. Specific functionality includes:
- Wireless barcode scanning
- Print picking and packing slips, and shipping labels
- Integration with common shipping carriers
- Integration with rate shopping tools to help minimize shipping costs
- Ability to manage RMAs
- Pack-to-container functionality
- Shipping history
Increase Warehouse
Efficiency with MetaShip
MetaWMS Advanced Warehouse Solution is an extension for Dynamics 365 Business Central that provides unprecedented visibility and control over your warehouse operations using industry leading best practices-including intelligent pick and pack processes, handheld 1D/2D barcode scanning, label printing inventory counts and integration with shipping systems, reporting, invoicing-to more efficiently run your warehouse and minimize handling costs.
All-in-one solution designed for enterprise businesses, primarily for manufacturers, logistics, pharmaceuticals, wholesalers and distributors, etc. As a fully integrated system with Business Central, get real-time access, accurate inventory data, warehouse professionals save time locating items or performing physical inventories, sales representatives can keep tabs on stock availability, and buyers can maintain optimum stock levels while minimizing carrying costs. Both solutions are highly capable of adapting to the changing needs of your growing company.
Advanced Warehouse functionality in MetaWMS can be implemented in different complexity levels, depending on a company’s processes and order volume. Thus, allows real time visibility of all your inventory at all times. Both systems, Business Central and MetaWMS are tightly integrated to create end-to-end supply chain optimization.
Supports all your Warehouse Process
- Bin
- License Plating
- 1D/2D Barcode and Label Printing
- Put Away
- Pick
- Purchase Order
- Shipping with Integration to Multiple Carriers
- Cycle Counting
- Warehouse Receipt and Shipping
- Multiple Locations
- Expiry Dating with FIFO/FEFO Support
- Streamlined Serial and Lot/Batch
- Reporting
- Seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Warehouse Shipping Functionality
Carrier Integration
Integration with common carriers allows you to easily generate shipping labels and paperwork without the need to enter information into multiple solutions. The common couriers tracking screen is accessible from within MetaShip.
Rate Shopping
MetaShip integrates with rate shopping applications to help your business get the best shipping rates. Once employees have finished packing orders into boxes specifying size and weight, the system will automatically populate a list of available carrier companies and their respective services and rates. Employees then choose an option and the information is used to generate shipping labels and any associated paperwork – and then product is ready to ship!
Receiving Inventory
With MetaShip, you can easily manage the receipt of inventory to your warehouse or to multiple warehouse locations. Specific functionality includes:
- Easily receive inventory using barcode scanning technology
- Ability to receive products and associated lot and serial numbers
- Calculate total costs of goods “COG” – including landed costs
- Valuation of inventory is automatically updated as product is received
- Inventory updated in real time upon receipt
Wireless Barcode Scanning
MetaShip’s wireless barcode scanning functionality makes shipping and receiving a hassle-free process. Easily scan items as you receive them into your warehouse to update inventory quantities or scan items as part of the picking process using electronic pick slips. Verification scanning is also available for use at packing stations.
MetaShip
Integrated With Multi-Carrier
MetaShip is a multi-carrier shipping software that integrates with all the major carriers. As an organization that continually works with enterprise technology providers, shipping carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers, MetaShip excels at providing exceptional integrated solutions for your transportation and technology needs.
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