Store Receiving And Inventory Logistics HTML

Chain Store Receiving and

Inventory Logistics

The Store Receiving System represents

the integration of logistics inventory

management and distribution with

chain store receiving in a paper free

environment.

Integrating merchandising receiving,

distribution, shipment container label-

ing, basic stock replenishment, picking,

contents tracking, merchandise han-

dling into a single system.

A single system that tracks the con-

tents of each shipment container and

its location with a simple barcoded

license plate label.

The shipment container (carton) is

tracked through the facilities of the

organization, third party locations and

interfaced with the transport carrier

systems through the use of a standard

MH10 label.

Speciﬁcally implemented for Dylex/

Biway operations where we implement-

ed the system that managed the logis-

tics and transport of a 1.2b retail value

ﬂow across 330+ locations.

Third party workﬂow interactions includ-

ing the operations of J.D. Smith and

Sons, National Logistics Services (NLS),

Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines (M-O),

Mowat Express, United Parcel Service

(UPS) and Purolator. Operating at the

22k to 33k cases per week at standard

and peak rates over a 10+ year en-

gagement ﬁnishing 100% paper free.

With logistics operations segmented by

geography and soft/hard lines product

class, located in Toronto and Montreal

and twice a week scheduled store

delivery the the Store Receiving system

was tasked with the status of in-transit

inventory and the processing of the

physical in-store receiving results.

Our logistics solutions had already been

in place since 1991 which included,

cross dock operations of softlines

distribution, repack and pick to store

operations for soft lines loose load or

expedited carton shipment, and hard

lines distribution to palletized storage

for heavy goods. Originally a manifest

generation solution with outbound

scanning conﬁrmation and further

maturing to an automated conveyor

with overhead scanning and diversion

control for scheduled shipments.

The CapeTown System was interfaced

with the Biway Island Paciﬁc AS/400

system in receipt of inventory

allocation/distributions driven by

warehouse designations and routing

predeﬁnition. Originally driven through

logical printer capture between AS/400

and PC technology and also maturing

to remote shared folder token ﬁle

passthrough.

Unique shipment container codes being

in pre-existence the MH10 format

would drive the process through the

carrier’s systems and delivery activities

and provide resultant EDI 210and 214

data (shipment notiﬁcation and

acknowledgement, invoice data).

Information is communicated to the

store level processing where it is

interfaced with carrier scanned

information for a shipment container

level conﬁrmation of receipt. Detailed

receiving and adjustments at the store

level are supported for contents

veriﬁcation and additions of missing

items in the communication. This

provided a two staged receiving audit

whereby delivery notiﬁcation from the

carrier was married against receipt

information returning from the store

receiving operation. In addition, the

predicted receiving was already in

existence at the logistics operations

level.

Store Receiving provided the predicted

path of the goods and the actual

veriﬁcation of the physical process from

each of these perspectives. Resultant

in-transit and receiving information then

passed back to AS/400 Island Paciﬁc

for a full supply chain inventory update.!

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

StoreReceiving

TheOrder

Warehouse operations supported include, cross

dock labeling and tracking, pick-and-pack order

picking, pick-to-store, wave picking, pick-face

replenishment and palletized inventory storage

and management. Shipment operations and

manifest/bill of lading production are supported

in a manual and automated scanned environ-

ment. With conveyor based overhead scanning

to trailer loading diversion, through an integrated

carrier/trailer scheduling application that sched-

ules chain store deliver loading in a chronologi-

cal fashion for advanced planning.

LOGISTICS CARRIER SUPPORT

Carrier Supportive interfaces included, United

Parcel Service (UPS), Purolator, National Logis-

tics Services (DYLEX) Toronto and Montreal,

J.D. Smith and Sons, Mowat Express, Maritime-

Ontario (M-O), Manitoulin Transport.

INTEGRATION PARTNERS"

Dylex IT, Biway IT, NLS IT, REF Retail Systems,

Island Paciﬁc Merchandise Management,

Robertson Electric, RS Materials Handling,

Symbol Technologies, Teklogix, Monarch Mark-

ing, Weber Marking.

PAPERLESS OPERATIONS

The Store Receiving System provided the pa-

perless environment that would allow for ship-

ments to be tracked from the receipt at the

dock, the application of license plate bar code

label, staging for delivery and/or storage, con-

veyance, scan for outbound delivery via over-

head or manual hand scanning and outbound

lane diversion to an awaiting pre-scheduled

trailer.

This was accomplished with binary search ca-

pabilities across a large store based inventory

combined with a store scan for outbound ship-

ment and scheduling application that would

allow for a planned loading and shipment opera-

tion and communication of pending in-transit

receipts to the store based systems.

Integration of the license plate with carrier

based systems proved for an effective means of

providing the carrier with the necessary informa-

tion for billing and routing compliance within

their internal systems and reﬂection of EDI and

manual billings for payables processing.

With both manual and overhead omnidirectional

scanning on an automated conveyance and

diversion control materials handling platform,

the system achieves sub-second query and

update performance for lookup and routing

processing of shipment containers/cartons.

Manual scanning support provides exception

and non-route support as well as close-out and

loading start processing.

Electronic Manifesting to destination stores

provides predetermination of carrier/shipment

receipts en-route and in-transit inventory ﬂows

to head ofﬁce merchandise systems for all in-

ventory movement via carrier from all opera-

tional centres and to all stores irrespective of

geographical disbursement.

Update processing at the store level is achieved

through operator and carrier delivery personnel

scanning operations and interface to store re-

ceiving in-store processor providing a single

scan environment for both the carrier and the

store receiving point.

Paper is completely removed from the supply

chain which includes items such as deliver man-

ifest, carrier bill of lading, proof of delivery, re-

ceiving document and carrier invoice, replaced

with license plate label status updates and loca-

tion information within the system including in-

transit movement, receipt and staging/storage

operations.

The Store Receiving and Logistics System rep-

resents the elimination of manual scanning re-

quirements for outbound processing and deliv-

ery manifest and bill of lading report for both

carriers and the receiving point, allowing for

enhanced handling capabilities and shipment

splitting with the removal of batch manifesting

where each shipment container is an indepen-

dent shipment, using the license plate bar code

as its common identiﬁer across disparate sys-

tems.

The Store Receiving and Logistics System was

developed with C++ in a Relational Database

SQL environment in support of head ofﬁce large

data base and large SKU base requirements.

Remote centre support is provided with a mix-

ture of X-Base, Fox-Pro, Clipper and Windows

X-Base supportive applications that operate as

independent solutions which where then inte-

grated into the overall Store Receiving and !

Logistics support system in order to capture

carrier cost and logistics automated loading

efﬁciencies while also providing a paper free

environment for store based carrier delivery and

receipt operations.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

Conveyor Driven Scanning and Diversion

Overhead omni-directional scanner scans the

carton labels to update the loading status of the

shipment container, derive its appropriate lane

diversion based on the loading schedule ensuring

outbound accuracy of shipments.

Store Receiving Operations Interface

Store Receiving Communications Transmissions

and Receiving Processor which integrates logis-

tics facility operations, store receiving information,

carrier delivery and head ofﬁce in-transit status in

a single operator console application.

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LOGISTICS RECEIVING

SOFT LINES CROSS DOCK

The Receiving System provides for shipment

container license plate labels with a bar code for

unique store and shipment handling, tracking,

outbound scanning and destination delivery and

receiving scanning. Cartons and containers from

other logistics operations such as pick-and-

pack and pick-to-store operations are integrat-

ed with a like license plate label that allows for

tracking of multiple SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)

items within one container for less than case lot

item replenishments which may or may not

span multiple cases in an order picking sce-

nario.

Shipment containers are stored in a staging

conﬁguration for delivery to stores and/or desti-

nation end-points as per a predetermined

schedule in the system that controls the con-

veyance and outbound scanning of cartons into

an awaiting trailer at a given lane loading point

at the end of the conveyance workﬂow.

Outbound information is passed along to carri-

ers, the chain store merchandising system and

the receiving points via communications ﬁle

relaying in-transit and delivery information for

cartons and their license plate bar code infor-

mation allowing for an up to date inventory

picture and receipt expectation at the delivery

point.

HARD LINES

Hard Lines Inventories are managed somewhat

differently with worksheet processing of distribu-

tion inventories for carton pallet collection and

stacking where inventories are higher in weight

criteria and loose staging is not possible. The

ﬂow of this operation results in similar exception

management with pallet label license plate,

multiple contents on a multiple case and item

basis. Typical of a pick to store operation where

product is moved across a bank of store staging

locations for later store delivery runs.

Using the same interface as the Soft Lines or

cross-dock operations and with the same pa-

perless environment with a palletized format

rather than a per case license plate. Typical of

lower cost and higher weight and handling crite-

ria and also for the purposes of removing items

that can cause more expensive damage to

other lines. An example would be glass bottled

product that should not be intermixed with ex

pensive linens and thus ﬂow through a separate

and distant logistics channel.

A distribution worksheet or portable computing

device is used to move the product to its stag-

ing area in the quantities as pre-determined by

the inventory item distribution.

AUTOMATED LABEL APPLICATION

Although not implemented, typical production

oriented environments employ the use of an

automated print and physical application of

standard labels relieving the labour from the

process. Some providers are Weber Marking,

Monarch Marking and TEC.

PICK AND PACK - REPACK

Product workﬂows such as replenishment of

basics, where product is replenished to the

store on a more frequent basis based on the

sales process in an effort to replenish high de-

mand items in lower quantities quickly by mixing

them with other such items to form whole con-

tainers of mixed items with a single license

plate. These items are generally delivered on a

more frequent and consistent basis, are picked

from a pick face of SKU slotted locations and

have palletized backup stock for replenishment

into the pick face that is triggered by store re-

quirements.

Pick face assignment and item capacitance

dictate the replenishment of the pick face up to

its ﬁlling point and include the store order re-

quirement in a wave based workﬂow process

that includes the entire store requirement as well

as the reduction of item movements for the

purposes or replenishing the pick face. The pick

face is predetermined and SKU speciﬁc.

Cartons are produced in quantity with mixed

item contents destined for a store and labeled in

concert with closing of cases for store staging

operations where they are mixed with other

stages shipment containers.

The process is based upon waves, order wave,

replenishment wave and picking waves across

and into the pick face from palletized back up

stock.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

Shipment Routing Schedule

Whereby chain stores delivery is scheduled at

pre-determined times and cartons are veriﬁed as

they move along the conveyor to the overhead

scanner and diverted to the shipping lane with

the expectant trailer or kicked out at the end of

the process.

LABEL PRODUCTION

TEC B472 Label printer producing MH10 carton

shipment container label in standard format.

AUTOMATED LABEL APPLICATION

Weber, Monarch and TEC automated label print-

ing and applicators, carton, pallet.

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PICK TO STORE

Items in this workﬂow are moved across a bank

of store positions in item batches for placement

in store positions which are later closed with a

container close operation which seals the con-

tents with a license plate bar code label for the

shipping container.

With the inverse of the Pick and Pack operation

where an awaiting store container is ﬁlled with

speciﬁc product, here the product is moved

across store awaiting containers and then con-

tainers are closed based upon content capacity

or timing of shipment scheduling which dictates

close of the container.

ORDER PICKING

In an order picking scenario, product is depleted

from high bay racking or picking face for the

purposes of customer and consumer order

fulﬁllment rather than a distribution network with

a ﬁxed number of like endpoints with varying

inventory replenishment requirements. High Bay

or High Density Pallet Racking and Item Pick

Faces are used to support order picking com-

pletion and workﬂow cleanliness operations in a

warehouse environment which supports both

requirements.

A Locator, Counter-Stock Locator and High

Bay/Density Pallet based management system

support operations of these unique environment

where product can be stored in Pick Face

arrangements, High Bay Palletized Racking or in

Mixed SKU/Product arrangements for the pur-

poses of fulﬁlling chain based or customer/con-

sumer based receiving, storage and picking

operations.

SHIPMENT OPERATIONS

SCHEDULED SHIPMENTS

Regardless of logistics workﬂow, shipping con-

tainers ﬂow through the outbound dock via

carrier and destination store scheduling. Via

omnidirectional license plate scanning or pallet

label scanning, inventory is consolidated by

destination, destination route and carrier in

wave operation. The information is batched for

communication to the third parties and destina-

tions involved.

MANIFESTING

Manifests and Packing Slips are printable

should they be required. With a unique license

plate label for each shipment the paper is re-

moved from the overall process and replaced

with electronic information that is sent to the

destinations, carriers and in most cases collect-

ed by the carrier company’s system in much the

same way.

BILL OF LADING

In cases where a bill of lading is required, the

system can product it with weight and cube

information for carrier rating and load manage-

ment. This scenario being more typical of pal-

letized LTL (Less that Trailer/Truck Load) freight,

the carrier may still require the paper, since

many utilize third party or independent drivers.

COMMUNICATIONS

OPERATIONAL TRANSACTIONS

Operational Centres report to the central system

through data ﬁles which represent the activities

performed such as order receiving, status up-

dates, shipment operations and completing

picking operations. The license plate data and

contents information is provided to the central

system for consolidation processing, central

inventory status update and batching of com-

munications to the carriers and destination

stores or end-points.

IN-TRANSIT INVENTORY

Information is sent to the enterprise merchan-

dising system for the purposes of updating in

transit and delivery/receiving operations, thereby

updating the in-transit inventory ﬁnancial picture

for the distribution chain based operations. This

includes information from operational centres

and receiving destinations into a system to

system synchronization ﬂow.

TRANSPORT CARRIER EDI

Information from carrier EDI 214, delivery status

is collected for status update to the inventory to

be used in conjunction with store based receiv-

ing and adjustment transactions in a two

pronged delivery update approach for status

updates.

STORE COMMUNICATIONS

Store receiving operations include the stores

acknowledgement of received containers via

license plate scanning of pallets, cartons by the

carrier or store receiving staff. Adjustments to

shipment contents can be made at store level

and are communicated to the central Store

Receiving system along with status updates for

shipment license plates. This is accomplished

by in-store processing software that allows for

view of incoming receipts from carriers at known

predetermined times and and overall view of

what inventory is forthcoming. The activity is

then communicated to the head ofﬁce system

for Store Receiving update and communication

to Merchandising and Operational Systems.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

PICK AND PACK - REPACK

Loose items are collected to a container for the

destination store or items are distributed into the

awaiting store location.

HIGH BAY RACKING

Palletized items stored and staged for various

purposes, pick face replenishment, case picking,

or destination store staging for scheduled wrap

and deliver operations of stacked pallet goods.

TheSymbols

Symbology through the use of standards and

barcodes enables the automation of ﬂows and

information capture when done properly and

with a well thought out scheme.

The basic ability to associate product with the

ticketing barcode requirement exists at the base

item deﬁnition level with UPC/EAN/ISBN and

other standard code deﬁnition and production

capabilities at normal locations in the deﬁnition

and workﬂow areas of the system.

We developed the system to allow you to deﬁne

and modify your ticketing and container labeling

within the system.

(00)! Application Identiﬁer always 00 for

! SSC-18

1 ! Package type

! 0, case or carton, 1, pallet, 2, larger

! than pallet, 3, undeﬁned container, 4,

! internally deﬁnes, 5-9 future

0012345! Manufacturer/Company ID

3218730 Unique Transaction Number

00 Piece Count!

We designed and developed all of our forms to

use barcodes to enable you to easily integrate

them into your workﬂow and the data capture

points of your business. All forms and reports

also use a standard and open method for an

ease of enhancement.

We integrated the EDI ticketing requirements of

your customers as well, so that when you

process their orders you can pass through the

important information that came in with their

order.

When done in a logical and workﬂow oriented

fashion your outbound documents can be as

easily injected back into your business with a

document imaging and management solution

such as our WorkFlow.Plus web and workﬂow

system or shIP2.com for transportation and

logistics or any third party imaging system.

You can work the rule and work the exceptions

or automated the rule and work the exceptions

and we prefer the later. So when we put the ﬁnal

touches down on shIP2 we wanted to stream-

line the document ﬂow by not only creating the

important transaction barcode on documents

but include the document type and a company

designation.

CCB-324870-9, CCP-324870-9 using a short

company code and standard check digit trans-

action code. Using SSC-18 would provide for

long encoding which could also be used, in

either case the purpose is to distinguish a code

that is a) belonging to the company and b) the

document type for automated image to carriage

transaction association. Bill of Lading and Proof

of delivery in the above two examples!

Capturing information such as signature and

relevant performance and cost information can

be accomplished though predictive base line

data along with before and after decision boxes

to derive delivery date, time, wait time, and

other relative information with signature area for

a streamlined workﬂow that overlaps with

source documents such as BOL, POD, Dock

Control and other workﬂow documents in use at

your enterprise.

Our WorkFlow.Plus system creates service ﬂows

using case numbers, we called them that in an

effort to integrate them into your way of doing

business. Work Order, Route Sheet, Service

Call, Docket, Case File, whatever the case, to

provide an additional pillar in the billing support

function of your enterprise.

Art of Commerce™ forms, Sales Order, Transfer

Order, Purchase Order, Pick Sheet, Packing

Slip, Bill of Lading, Invoice, all utilize a barcode

in this fashion to promote the workﬂow of your

business the way you want it to work.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

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AUDIT PROCESSING

RECEIVING INTERFACE

Using store receiving and transport carrier

shipment status update provides to two levels

of inventory status acknowledgement which are

separate workﬂow processes.

CARRIER BILLING INTERFACE

Carrier interfaces for billing predetermination

against incoming carrier invoice transactions

provides a clear picture of transportation and

logistics handling costs where large variances

can be tracked down to more speciﬁc detailed

criteria for expediting billing adjustments and

payment.

ADJUSTMENT PROCESSING

Inventory adjustment processing provides for

immediate communication of variances for fast

determination of issues for purchasing and

vendor relationships.!

Outcomes

•

Integrate the day to day and web delivery

system merchandising activities into a single

streaming management effort.

•

Organize your product development docu-

ment and digital media into a centralized and

accessible database with a powerful global

search capability.

•

Integrate trade, distribution, web and mail

order, telephone sales, and EDI into a single

system.

•

Create an automated inventory replenishment

environment with presentation stock, basic

demand, seasonal forecasting and actual

sales values that drive the availability of your

product where you sell it. Automated Replen-

ishment from Vendor or Logistics Facility.

•

Integrate the industry standard product and

delivery documentation and presentation

requirements into the workﬂow of the system.

Ticket & Bar Code Labeling, EDI Compliance.

•

Connect your customers and third parties to

the business with a web enabled access

capability and self managed portal that is

available in a business to business and con-

sumer model. Internet E-Commerce.

•

Create a streamlined operational centre work-

ﬂow by ﬂowing sales channel, customer and

supply activities into a single or multiple loca-

tion warehouse/distribution centre environ-

ment housed in a single system.

•

Create a paper free environment with web

enabled devices in your inventory presence

locations and a customer/consumer access

web site.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

Replenishment Models

Automate vendor and store replenishments of

inventory with automated replenishment models

and forecasting.

Purchase/Transfer Order

Movement and procurement of goods orders.

keyed, EDI or generated by replenishment runs.

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange transaction are

integrated into the system ﬂow.

OfMice

The application architecture provides for a ser-

vice and digital delivery media and information

library development, presentation, procurement,

fulﬁllment and work ﬂow that has been put to-

gether to form a simple step by step process in

a high demand and transaction based environ-

ment that permits the use of the system for

enterprises with a single or many locations.

The database is client/server architecture devel-

oped in a Microsoft

SQL Server environment

and is also adaptable to other database plat-

forms such as Oracle and other relational data-

base platforms.

The desktop application is Microsoft

Windows

a Visual Basic and .NET development environ-

ment. The web applications are also .NET and

function across a the full spectrum of browser

applications.

Reports and Forms are provided in both a web

and desktop delivery architecture. Additional

report and form objects can be developed and

integrated into the system as required.

The operating environment requires a server

based architecture that can house a database

and internet information server service or a

multiple server based architecture that seg-

ments the database from the web server(s).

andPersons

The system supports a component object mod-

el interface that allows for server banks and

multiple location service and server architec-

tures.

The ﬁnancial environment presently supports a

batch driven collection and export process that

provides Accounts Receivable, Accounts

Payable and General Ledger transactions in a

batch. The environment has been implemented

in an ACCPAC Accounting interface and can be

easily geared to other accounting applications

using this process.

The EDI interface is presently supported with an

Inovis™

EDI mapping and communications

interface, selected for price point, ﬂexibility and

user base, it provides a suitable platform for the

more than one EDI trading partner environment.

EDI mapping for other platforms can also be

supported with additional development efforts.

Industry standard bar code generation is built in

to the system with support for present and

future technologies through a simple embedded

format code interface designed into the system.

The system has been designed with Zebra, TEC

and Monarch printing platform technologies with

multiple format support at the product, cus-

tomer and customer/shipment carrier levels in

an automated workﬂow environment.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

Web Orders and Product Presentation

Replenishment run view based upon schedule

that is periodic and accommodates the inventory

status of the enterprise, sales experience and

forecasted model or models within the system.

Art of Commerce

Business Desktop

Art of Commerce

Business to Business Web

Portal

Art of Commerce

Business to Consumer Web

Portal

Art of Commerce

Web Management Desktop

Art of Commerce

Hand Held Device Web Inter-

face

Art of Commerce

Operational Center Desktop

Art of Commerce

EDI Mapping and

Communications Interface

Art of Commerce

Replenishment Model Desk-

top

Art of Commerce

Remote Agent

Art of Commerce

Retail Register Desktop

Art of Commerce

In-Store Business Desktop

Art of Commerce

Chain Based Store Receiving

WorkFlow.Plus Web and Workﬂow Interface

Ship2.com

Transportation & Logistics

Web and Workﬂow Interface (Shipment Track and

Trace)

INTERFACES

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

Web and Desktop Merchandising

Robust Product Search and Organization

Document and Image Product Library

Basic and Complex Component Inventories

Multiple Channel Sales Integration

Distribution and Standard Order Entry

Distribution and Standard Purchase and Supply

Distribution and Standard Transfers Supply

Cycle and Full Inventory Counts (Online/Paper)

Automated Inventory Replenishment

Manage a single or many businesses

Warehouse and Distribution Center Management

Enterprise Wide Inventory Movement

Paperless and Wireless Operations

Dynamic Real Time Reporting and Delivery

Financial A/R, A/P and G/L integration

Customer Self Management and Access

Web Content Management

Industry Standard Signage and Label Formatting,

Design and Production

Client/Server Centralized Database

ArtofCommerce™

Simply add what it is you are selling.

The Art of Commerce™ system is designed for enterprises in the product development and distribution industry that

integrates the merchandise development and presentation, sales channel integration, logistics and fulﬁllment opera-

tions and retail speciﬁc requirements into a web and desktop enabled system that delivers value to the enterprises

resources, customers and business relationships.

Art of Commerce™ paints your merchandising challenge simple.

BENEFITS

FEATURES

Integrate the day to day and web delivery system merchandising activities into a single streaming

management effort

Organize your product development document and digital media into a centralized and accessible

database with a powerful global search capability called Image++ and its connected to your the

merchandise and inventory management

Integrate trade, distribution, telephone sales, web and mail order, and EDI sales processes into a single

system

Create an automated inventory replenishment environment with demand and seasonal forecasting and

actual sales values to drive the availability of your product where you sell it

Integrate the industry standard product and delivery documentation and presentation requirements into the

workﬂow of the system

Connect your customers and third parties to the business with a web enabled access capability and self

management portal that is available in a business to business and a business to consumer model

Create a streamlined operational center workﬂow by ﬂowing sales channel, customer and supply activities

into a single or multiple location warehouse/distribution center environment in one system

Create a paper free environment with web enabled devices in your inventory presence locations and a

customer access web site

Create an automated and predictive delivery and transportation model for your business and service level

objectives.

Provide an operational center interface for facility and inventory centric resources and a customer and

business interface for sales, business and customer centric resources

Integrate any size chain or multiple chains into a cohesive merchandising and multiple tiered inventory

management and replenishment system

Automate the receiving at the store level with data streams from your head ofﬁce, distribution center, third

party providers and vendors and transportation providers for a well rounded receiving and tack and trace

environment

Add the store level interface for an all around system solution or integrate your existing store level solution

into the Art of Commerce

system

Integrate any number of facilities into a cohesive management system with an operational center interface

Create rule based and inventory based movement and storage management ﬂows that are customer and

facility centric

Create a single system for all your business requirements and add value to the business

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

INVENTORY AND CHAIN AUTOMATED

REPLENISHMENT

Automate your inventory replenishment and plan-

ning using min and max, demand and seasonal/

period ﬂuctuations.

WEBMANAGEMENT

Deﬁne and manage web content such as news,

events, positions, etc.

CE RETAIL INTERFACE

A Retail Store Check out interface to the Art of

Commerce System.

PURCHASE/TRANSFER ORDER

Control the inventory requirements and move-

ment of your inventory in multiple location stores

and structure.

E-COMMERCE STORE & BUSINESS

PRODUCT PUBLISHING

Deliver your products and Image++ media to the

web customer, customer sign on accounts,

yours sales representatives and your business

resources

E-COMMERCE CUSTOMER

MANAGEMENT

Allow your customer accounts a window into your

business and their business forms in a paperless

environment.

PRODUCT EXPLORER AND

MERCHANDISE MANAGEMENT

Deﬁne your product in a structure that matches

your business, your strategy and your hierarchy

IMAGE++ MANAGEMENT, IMAGE, RTF

DOCUMENTS AND STREAMING

OBJECTS

Expand the information for your product by

adding digital media to your product development

and presentation via the web or the desktop.

SALES ORDER

An integrated order entry and management envi-

ronment for telesales, remote sales, web sales

and EDI order management and entry.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

EDI/INBOUND

EDI Order processing and crosscheck integrated

into the sales order environment

EDI/OUTBOUND

EDI Advanced Ship Notice Management for order

fulﬁllment and integration with the Inventory Ware-

house Picking and Packing environment.

REMOTE AGENT

PROCESS AND PRINT

Automated Print Job Design and Production in a

local and remote environment providing print job

processing and network access to physical

printing devices that would not be available oth-

erwise.

WIRELESS STORE FUNCTIONS

Inventory quantity and location inquiry via a hand

held interface.

REPORTING AND FORMS

Customizable reporting of business reports and

forms via Crystal Reports designed reports.

E-COMMERCE FORMS

Production of forms via the web for customer and

representative delivery in multiple output formats,

PDF, TIFF, etc.

OPERATIONAL CENTER MANAGEMENT

RECEIVING AND FULFILLMENT

Inventory Warehouse and Store management in

an unlimited number of locations with Receiving

and Put-a-way functions, Inventory allotment,

Picking, Packing and Shipping. Both in paper

based and wireless environments.

INVENTORY COUNTING PAPER FREE

PAPER BASED

Paper based and Wireless Inventory counting,

inventory adjustment and valuation automation.

WIRELESS OPERATIONAL CENTER

PICKING AND RECEIVING

Wireless Receiving, Inventory Count and Picking

operations via a hand held web enabled inter-

face.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

MAILSEND

Automated mail and XML communications pro-

gram module

WEBMANAGEMENT

Deﬁne and manage web content such as news,

events, positions, etc.

DASHBOARD

Business analysis and periodic review with linkage

to document workﬂow and images from a high

level functional rule based interface.

CONSIGNEE/SHIPPER WEB INTERFACE

Web portal for arms length operational relation-

ships with a focus on non-account based service

destinations and information on freight and freight

consolidation inbound.

TOKENIMPORT

Inbound transactions from operational day to day

system

IMAGE++/RDOC SERVER

Inbound document images via e-mail and fax,

queued and injected into the workﬂow.

CUSTOMER WEB INTERFACE

Web portal for customer account access to

transactions and supportive document images.

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE

WEB INTERFACE

Web portal for customer service representatives

in support of transactions, support documents

and operational information cohesion.

BUSINESS/ALLIANCE PARTNER WEB

INTERFACE

Web portal for third party company access to

transactions relevant to their service responsibili-

ties and freight consolidations inbound.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

CASE E-MAIL INTERFACE

Web electronic mail interface for inbound and

outbound communications with ability to track

attachments in/out and resend capabilities.

WEBMANAGEMENT

Deﬁne and manage web content such as news,

events, positions, etc.

IMAGE++/RDOC SERVER

Inbound document images and media via an e-

mail and/or fax or other communications method,

queued and injected into the workﬂow.

CUSTOMER/THIRD PARTY/ RESOURCE

WEB INTERFACE

Web portal for customers, resources and third

party user access to the WorkFlow.Plus system.

WEB INTERFACE CASE DISPLAY

Web access to case editing and display func-

tions, Image++, customer and resource notes,

report production, communications and resource

time allotments.

DASHBOARD

Business analysis and periodic review with link-

age to document workﬂow and images from a

high level functional rule based and user cus-

tomizable interface.

USER PROFILE

Control the presentation and options at the user

level with My Proﬁle.

INBOUND COMMUNICATIONS GALLERY

Inbound communications gallery for case as-

signment and workﬂow booking creating a com-

munication to work translation and automation if

required or desirable.

E-COMMERCE CUSTOMER

MANAGEMENT

Allow your customer accounts a window into the

business and their business forms in a paperless

environment.

CAPETOWN – Art of Commerce (TM), Imageion (TM), Workflow.plus, Patchwork.plus, Ship2.com

DESKTOP SYSTEM

Provides a desktop access method to the case

management and Image++ functions of the

system in addition to the web user interface.

IMAGE++ MANAGEMENT

Provides a desktop Image++ management ca-

pability in addition to the web interface for injection

of all media types and classes.

REMOTE AGENT PROCESS AND PRINT

Automated Print Job Design and Production in a

local and remote environment providing print job

processing and network access to physical

printing devices that would not be available oth-

erwise.

Enterprise Software

www.capetown.ca

Software

for your enterprise

CapeTown Enterprise Commerce is an integrated and open business

software solution that enables a company to work effectively in the

automated marketplace.

Our software allows your business to interface with the most demanding

fulfillment and supply environments and manage the day to day

operations of your company's roll in the marketplace.

Designed for multiple company, multiple line-of-business and multiple facility

environments that cross borders and span the globe. Our software

architecture can produce the electronic portrait of your enterprise for the

world to see.

♦ Enterprise Work Flow ♦ Chain Management

♦ Fulfillment ♦ Distribution & Replenishment

♦ Logistics and Operations ♦ Image++ Digital Imaging

♦ Merchandising ♦ Financials

♦ EDI ♦ XML

♦ E-Commerce

♦ Retail, Trade, Mail Order Sales

CapeTown Computing Corporation

111 - 12 Regina Road

Vaughan, Ontario L4L 8N5

Canada

(416) 410-BYTE [2983] * 1-888-CAPETOWN [227-3869]

commerce systems

enterprise

CAPETOWN

12 - 111 REGINA ROAD

VAUGHAN, ONTARIO

L4L 8N5

BILLING PACKAGE

FRANK TRISI SALES

82 INDUSTRY STREET

TORONTO, ONTARIO

M6M 4L7

CAPETOWN COMPUTING CORPORATION

July 15, 2006

September 28, 2006

MAILSEND

Automated mail and XML communications pro-

gram module

TOKENIMPORT

Inbound transactions from operational day to day

systems/Art of Commerce

CASE REPORTING

Case reporting is done in real time and en-

capsulates all information at the point in time

that it is produced, online or on the desktop.

Case Reports are used as the foundation of

the billing package.

BILLING PACKAGE PRODUCTION

Billing package production with summary by

period, by day, by case, case reports all bun-

dled together to support project and time report-

ing and electronic billing in a customizable for-

mat.

The billing package provides daily, project and

event based views of the workﬂow.

Status

Description:

Dec 12 2007

Enterprise Logo for CAPETOWN ENTERPRISE COMMERCE Products

Print Date

Active

9:03:09PM

Phone

Fax

CAPETOWN EXTERNAL

CAPETOWN COMPUTING

(416) 410-2983

Case No.

10398

111 Regina Road

Unit 12

Vaughan, ONTARIO

L4L 8N5

CAPETOWN COMPUTING CORPORATION

CASE

Start Date:

End Date:

Client Code:

Division Code:

Project Code:

CTOWN

CAPEXT

CAP003

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Image ++:

Customer Notes:

Need to add illustrator document storage capabilities to the system library.

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