"I would like to commend ABS EDI Department for an excellent and outstanding support that you have extended to IT team of Camuto Group. In the past months, it was a very challenging time for IT, as Camuto Group opens four new brands. On this undertaking, ABS EDI Team has a enormous role of turning all the initiatives around on a very tight window. Coordination and follow ups were thoroughly addressed and responded within the committed time line. In parallel, to these challenging initiatives, your team still provide us a remarkable EDI service support on our day to day problem. Once again, thank you for an excellent service and continued support!"
Ernest E. Gierran
Director of Application Development
Camuto Group
Ernest E. Gierran
Director of Application Development
Camuto Group
Major functions of the EDI Module include:
- Many data exchanges done via FTP eliminating the costly
and frequently unreliable use of VANS. - Information exchanged in timely fashion so that the
business systems of both partners are kept up to date
automatically without manual intervention. - Elimination of tedious and often error prone manual
data entry. - Includes translator communications and ability to
print any electronic form received. - Support GTN number and QRS catalog interface.
- Complete integration to WMS
(warehouse management system). - Supports & manages single level, pre-pack and
case pack transactions.
SALES REP PORTAL - The Sales Rep portal allows easy access to your daily order statistics, product inventory positions, product forecasting, order booking with credit card integration, and sales rep statistics with comprehensive drill down ability.
Major functions of the Sales Rep Portal include:
- There are no data bridges between the Web applications and the Host system, providing real time information.
- Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly summary of order statistics to see your current bookings, shipments, top 5 booking customers and returns. Authorized users can view multiple sales reps and "roll up" statistics on all reps.
- Comprehensive product data base search complete with images and extensive search criteria. View statistics on each product and select products for booking. Ability to format product page by a variety of views.
- Direct links to UPS, FedEx, and truck carriers to access shipment tracking information.
- Account maintenance capabilities to keep customer records up to date.
- View customer credit position and accounts receivable profile.
- Credit card order booking utilizing secured encryption technology.
CUSTOMER PORTAL - The Customer portal allows your customers to a real-time environment to search and access their orders as well as book new orders.
Major functions of the Customer Portal include:
- View current statistics on bookings, shipments and returns with ability to drill down to see actual orders.
- View current accounting information such as open invoices, credit memo's and credit limit information.
- Ability to reprint invoices, order statuses and credit memos and view them online or have them emailed to you.
- Search and view order detail information including shipment tracking.
- Access to UPC codes with ability to download.
- Book orders via credit card utilizing secured encryption technology.
CATALOG PORTAL - The Catalog portal allows your customer to view your product line in a more traditional format in which products are assigned to categories. Customers can drill down to actual products in a catalog format.
Major functions of the Catalog Portal include:
- Highly customizable portal allowing changes to color scheme, navigation criteria, catalog categories.
- User can view booking and shipping history and use advance order search features to look up existing orders.
- Reprint and/or email invoices, order statuses and credit memos.
- Image driven portal supports small, medium and large size images for each product and every color swatch.
- Book orders via secured encryption credit card technology.
- Enter drop ship address information.
- Change default ship-to address if more than one location available for customer.
- Set up promotions in advance, advertise them, and allow customers to enter your promotion codes for free freight, buy one get one free, discounts and other promotional / discount programs.
- Ability to enter third party shipping or freight collect account numbers.
OFFLINE ORDER ENTRY/E-ORDER PAD - Offline Order Entry ePad allows sales and customer service representatives to quickly and efficiently enter customer orders without an Internet or direct network connection to the ABS system. An Excel form allows the order to be entered, and uploaded at a later time to your main system or headquarters.
Major features of Offline Order Entry:
- Allows creation, copying, modification of orders offline without a direct system connection.
- Supports multiple methods of data entry and look-up of all information required to create an order including Account, Style and Inventory Masters.
- Uses MS Excel to simplify deployment and customization, and reduce the learning curve.
- Supports multiple methods of communicating, including FTP, XML, and Email.
- Reduces keying errors caused by illegible hand written or faxed order forms.
- Improves order turnaround time.
