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    Floship

    Score1 out of 10
    N/AFloship is a logistics technology company that provides end-to-end global fulfillment and logistics solutions for eCommerce brands and large-scale crowdfunding campaigns, offering cross-border logistics, with international warehousing, global shipping and returns management, and multi-brand management.N/A

    IBM Sterling Order Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM now owns and supports Sterling Commerce products (since August 2010), the most notable product being IBM Order Management. The platform emphasizes order promising and fulfillment and provides tools to adaptively complete orders specified to customer demands.N/A
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    FloshipIBM Sterling Order Management
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FloshipIBM Sterling Order Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Webgility
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FloshipIBM Sterling Order Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FloshipIBM Sterling Order Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Floship
    I feel you should AVOID FLOSHIP AT ALL COSTS - in my experience, we have a USD 137,978 loss and counting; they have charged my card for $10,000+ without consent multiple times. I personally recommend AVOIDING THEM AT ALL COSTS. I was originally approached by Floship to provide fulfillment services for a Kickstarter campaign. After being provided a full cost simulation and in-person advice, it was my experience that all support disappeared once fulfillment should have begun. In my experience, our clients have been severely inconvenienced through ineffective and late shipping practices. I feel we have burned a significant amount of time and money in correcting this; to the extent that we will look forward to just shipping ourselves and/or using better alternatives such as Easyship in the future. I feel they do not provide any visibility to their costs which I believe are entirely inflated (e.g. more than $50 USD quoted as import tax for a $3 shipment). It is my experience that they need to provide receipts for their services charged. [...] In my experience, having not dealt with Floship for several months, they have now attempted to charge a card we removed from their website. I believe this implies that they keep your payment details stored separately and record your CVV and other sensitive information. I have since canceled the card since they haven't stopped, and we do not owe them any money. [...] I feel that Floship's complete hostility at the suggestion of any wrongdoing indicates the awful experience I feel you will also have if you work with them. It is also my belief that their responses do not attempt to address our concerns [...]. I feel our prior requests for support, transparency regarding postage receipts, and general work orders have been largely ignored until I spoke out publicly. [...]
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    IBM
    It's perfect for medium to large retailers
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Floship
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    IBM
    • Centralizing data.
    • Instantaneously updated data.
    • Ad hoc reporting.
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    Cons
    Floship
    • I believe that all costs were hidden with 0 visibility. For example, I was charged a 3% transaction fee and 3% card fee with no other payment options. Shipping costs are provided to you up to 3 months later, but in my experience, no receipts are provided.
    • I feel that customer service is non-existent. In my experience, my emails went unanswered unless they are actively soliciting.
    • In my experience, additional services such as pick packing inflate costs drastically making our costs 60% underquoted.
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    IBM
    • RCP Based deployment
    • Wider variety of sourcing configuration
    • Product Documentation
    • COM Features need to better so that Customer case handling is facilitated
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Floship
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    IBM
    The package of Sterling Order Management / Sterling Store / Sterling Call Center works very well and it supports the expansion to Geographies like US/EU/JP/China, some of hottest markets for e-commerce.
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    Usability
    Floship
    I give Floship a one out of ten because there is no functionality, and I believe costs are deliberately hidden to obfuscate.
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    Floship
    I feel that Floship support is hostile, and did not regularly answer emails.
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    Floship
    Easyship is a much better alternative; we selected Floshi, I feel, as a costly mistake.
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    IBM
    Warehouse Management System which is mainly focussed on warehouse fulfillment but not on the routing and availability tracking
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Floship
    • Negative: Cost to us of over 130K USD
    • Negative: Shipments and packages delayed by more than 28 days
    • Negative: Complete loss of trust and goodwill for customers
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    IBM
    • Optimal inventory management resulted in more orders per minute and good ROI and customer experience
    Incentivized
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