VLC Smart Shipping

VLC Smart Shipping is a shipping management solution designed for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. According to the vendor, this solution aims to optimize and streamline the shipping process to enhance the accuracy of product delivery. It is marketed as suitable for businesses of various sizes, including small enterprises and well-established companies. E-commerce retailers, wholesale distributors, manufacturing companies, logistics and transportation firms, as well as third-party logistics providers, are among the target users of VLC Smart Shipping.

Key Features

Integration with Business Central: According to the vendor, users can process ready-to-ship Sales Orders in Business Central seamlessly using shortcuts, mouse clicks, or barcodes. This integration aims to eliminate shipping errors and enable direct status tracking from Sales documents.

Comparison of Shipping Prices: The vendor claims that VLC Smart Shipping helps reduce shipping costs by providing shipping quotes from various carriers, including small packages and LTL. Users can select the provider with the lowest shipping costs and best service.

Automated Label and Document Printing: The solution is said to streamline the shipping process by automatically receiving and sending shipping labels and documents to assigned printers. This feature aims to save time and effort for users.

Manage Orders: Users can efficiently filter, search, and sort orders based on specific criteria, assign ship-by dates, split orders into multiple shipments, add tags for organization, and make necessary changes to order details, according to the vendor.

Ship Orders: The vendor states that VLC Smart Shipping allows users to integrate with a postage provider to manage shipping labels and rates. Users can also manage funds for postage accounts with auto-funding capabilities, customize shipping services and package types, define ship-from and return addresses, and generate shipping labels for single or multiple packages.

Advanced Analytics: According to the vendor, the solution provides valuable insights into warehouse and non-warehouse operations. Users can analyze order picking and shipping, employee performance, monthly expenses breakdown, and track orders by carrier.

International Shipments: VLC Smart Shipping is said to simplify the processing of international shipments by automatically extracting required information for customs declarations from the ERP application. Users can generate customs forms and access additional options and forms for international shipping.

Custom Packaging: The vendor claims that users can define custom package types to meet specific shipping needs, ensuring secure and efficient packaging for various products.

Barcode Actions: According to the vendor, the solution offers barcode scanning functionality to retrieve and search orders, verify and print shipments, configure UPC and SKU settings, process orders in batches, and add barcodes to packing slips for easy tracking.

General Settings: The vendor states that users can set up third-party billing for shipping charges, configure carrier accounts, define weights and dimensions for items, manage weight discrepancies, generate package contents labels or PDFs, and handle partial shipments, among other features.