Automated Goods Receipt
Reduce the time it takes to receive your goods by up to 92%
Key benefits
- Reduce operational costs
- Lower prices for your customers
- Increase product availability
- Get products to market faster
- Faster receiving and storing of goods
- Closer trading relationships
Receiving suppliers’ goods is a demanding and complex process – especially when there is a large volume and variety of goods being processed – often the case for food service organisations.
Understanding which goods and how many are about to arrive, resolving delivery errors and reconciliation of payments takes a long time, can be costly and is subject to significant human intervention. The key to automating the goods receiving process is the ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice), an electronic message that provides accurate information about the goods that are despatched by your suppliers before they arrive at your premises. This means you can plan your receiving and warehouse operations in advance and streamline the process.
Automating the goods receiving process ensures you have accurate delivery information, enabling you to reduce errors so you can make cost savings and provide a better service to your suppliers. You can:
- reduce the time it typically takes to unload a truck with 26 pallets from 52 minutes to 4 minutes
- lower labour costs by reducing errors and therefore human intervention
- improve product availability and customer service with a better managed inventory based on accurate data
- reduce invoice disputes, speed up payments and improve relationships with your suppliers
Contact us to:
- talk to our experts about your current goods receiving process and how we can help you improve it
- take part in a webinar session where you can learn more about the benefits of Advanced Shipping Notices
- arrange for our experts to show you how we can build a business case for your company
T: 020 7092 3500
E: info@gs1uk.org
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