Agvance Shipping Order Manager provides the tools needed to manage the wholesale side of your business. It enables you to manage the shipment of product from the manufacturer directly to the customer or from your inventory to the customer. It automatically creates the required Agvance documents so that inventory is managed correctly and the customer is invoiced efficiently.

Shipping Order Manager is designed to manage four types of wholesale product movement:

Scenario 1: User buys and immediately sells to customer (drop ship), customer does not prepay.
Scenario 2: User buys and immediately sells to customer (drop ship), customer prepays.
Scenario 3: User ships directly from their own manufacturing facility that uses the Truckload Manager program.
Scenario 4: An affiliated company pays supplier direct. In this case, Shipping Order Manager is only used to track the pickup numbers.

Shipping Order Manager Process Flow

The following is a list of the steps that normally take place while managing shipping orders:

User arranges to purchase a certain number of loads of product. The manufacturing facility gives user one Pickup Number for each load.
A customer requests one or more loads of a particular product.
- The user determines which supplier/location the product will be sourced from
- The user picks existing pickup number(s) or calls the supplier/location to obtain pickup number(s)
- The user updates the shipping order with the customer, price, etc.
The user can update the shipping order when additional information is available.
- When the Bill of Lading is received
- Actual tons delivered is recorded
The user can click the "Send to Agvance" to create the appropriate Agvance documents (based on one of the 4 scenarios above)
After the Customer has been invoiced, the user can use an automated process to update the shipping orders with the invoice date and number.