Fruit Gifts Drop Shipped
Each drop ship vendor can be assigned a method for communication throughout the purchase order lifecycle: EDI, vendor web portal, mapped file transfer, email, fax or print for manual transmission.
- EDI module for communications: stock, drop ship and inventory status
- Drop Ship Portal for vendor access to orders, status changes, ASNs and more
- Automatic creation of branded packing slips for drop shipping
- Order changes update purchasing, call center, web interface and customer email
Gift Wrap & Sentiments
ProfitCenter has the order management capabilities to capture gift sentiment entries for printing directly onto gift cards or onto packing slips. Gift wrap purchases can be processed in groups as work orders with: picking locations for products, work station instructions for gift wrapping, standard labor cost assignment and finished goods put-away location. Once finished and placed in its assigned location, the gift wrapped item is automatically given its new COG and allows the release of non-custom items for picking. Multi-rack logic allows all gift wrap items and non-gift wrap items to be combined for efficient single shipments.
Order Communications
ProfitCenter Software’s Order Management Software communicates gift order status changes directly to the buyer by automatic emails. The ship-to recipient receives a packing slip without any pricing information. In the database, ship-to recipients are identified as such (not customers).
Continuities and Multi-Gift Sets
A popular gift idea, but complex in order management, is the gift that has multiple shipments on pre-determined dates. A typical example is continuities – a pre-determined set of gifts that ship x-days after the prior gift (in sequence). Examples include:
- Collector Items – coins, stamps, replica cars, etc.
- Books & Music – author series, genre and musician
- Gift Sets – service sets, cooking utensils, consumables, etc.
- Foods – 12 months of different chocolates or fruit of the month
ProfitCenter allows for these sequenced gift ideas when using our optional continuity module. Each continuity plan can be personalized by more than product and timing, such as payment plan, order hold rules and bonus gifts (used for reducing attrition). |
