Shipping

Coordinating shipments across multiple carriers and manually handling paperwork can be time-consuming and prone to bottlenecks. In today’s competitive market, companies need visibility and control over outgoing shipments.

Appward’s Shipping app offers a seamless, centralized solution for efficient shipping management. Integrated with major carriers like FedEx, it provides real-time tracking and monitoring capabilities, improving shipping strategies and customer satisfaction.

Coordinating shipments across multiple carriers and manually handling paperwork can be time-consuming and prone to bottlenecks. In today’s competitive market, companies need visibility and control over outgoing shipments.

Appward’s Shipping app offers a seamless, centralized solution for efficient shipping management. Integrated with major carriers like FedEx, it provides real-time tracking and monitoring capabilities, improving shipping strategies and customer satisfaction.

Efficiently and thoroughly manage all shipments

  • Track all shipments, including those you’ve shipped, for comprehensive tracking details
  • Quickly check the status of items to ensure they are pulled, packaged, and shipped
  • Access a list of shipments linked to specific companies for streamlined organization
  • Search through Sales Orders or Projects to quickly find a shipment

Quickly access all shipment logistics

  • Consolidate all essential shipping information in one place
  • Effortlessly identify requesters, recipients, and destinations
  • Easily log trucking logistics with contact and driver information
  • Link Sales Orders or Projects associated with each shipment for easy referencing

Advanced Shipment Tracking and Preparation

  • Real-time tracking with major carriers like FedEx for shipment visibility
  • Easily identify the status of your shipment with a visual progress bar
  • Request items to be pulled to prepare them for shipping
  • Specify packaging details and dimensions effectively

Shipping App Features

  • Search shipments by items, customers, sales orders, or projects.
  • Access item details, including adding, pulling, and packaging dates
  • View shipments linked to specific companies
  • Identify shipments associated with Sales Orders or Projects
  • Easily see what stage a shipment is in with a visual status bar
  • Know who is requesting a shipment and if there are any special shipping instructions
  • Mark due dates, ship dates and delivered dates
  • See who and where the shipment is going to, complete with recipient contact information
  • Assign a trucking company and input driver information for oversize shipments
  • Associate a Project or Sales order record to each shipment
  • Input a tracking number from any of the major carriers, like FedEx, to pull in tracking information to a shipment record using our built in APIs
  • Track shipment delivery updates within the same window
  • Conveniently add items to a shipment directly from the Parts app
  • Select items to be shipped from what has been already prepped for shipping  
  • Select items to be pulled and packaged
  • Indicated what type of packages will be used for a shipment
  • Input package instructions specific to how to pack each item
  • Note the dimensions of each package and it’s weight
  • Set up a multi-staged approval process with multiple members or just add a one-step approval to review shipments
  • Label each stage of your approval process and assign who you would like to approve within that part of your process
  • Set a deadline date for each approver so they are aware of when they need to approve
  • Add approvers as members for full visibility into all comments, feedback, posts and key information of a change request to make well-informed decisions
  • Send notifications and reminders to each approver, letting them know they are part of the approval process or to submit their responses
  • Discuss shipping details and get input from others in your organization in a dedicated forum
  • Add @mentions to message others in your organization using Notification link in the Appward sidebar
  • Like a post to acknowledge and notify the author
  • Attach documents, images, media and AppShare links connecting to any record in Appward
  • Collect shipping metrics to identify patterns, recurring shipments, or bottlenecks in your shipping process
  • Analyze data to proactively address challenges, streamline processes, and promote continuous improvement
  • View insights derived from shipments to understand the status and delivery of various shipments
  • Collect insights on time spent and deliveries made to improve efficiency