Since the beginning of 2015, Beyond Expectations have been offering our APICAL integration platform as a solution for moving data from one point to another.
Little did we know that eventually there would be a new term coined to describe software in this category: iPaaS – Integration Platform as a Service. Who would have thought that we’d be significant players in such a space? Well, we are.
For our 3PL clients, we form a critical link between them and their customers. Our 3PL client can call / email us to set up a new customer link and we can have them receiving transactions within a short time frame. We touch on many aspects of their business with the software we connect to, including:
Not only do we get Sales Orders flowing into the 3PL, but we also pass the order data out to their courier system for ticket creation and receive back tracking data used in the completion advice passed back to their customer. This automation saves considerable manual data entry.
Of course there are other transaction types that may be considered:
We also automate internal processes for our 3PL’s such as the determination of charges on each order based on transaction fees, product handling fees, courier charges, and consumption of consumables. We’ve also got some great ideas on how to optimise pick location replenishments and pick routing efficiency.
Our offer also includes:
There are other iPaaS solutions in the marketplace, but they come without most of the connections needed to operate a 3PL – that means having to build all the connections from scratch. We’ve got over a decade of experience with running our well tested connections.
APICAL provides everything an off-the-shelf iPaaS provides — and more, because it's managed:
How do you get started? Drop us a line below (or book a meeting to discuss)