Re: Shipment Acknowledgement

[Eric Wolf <eric_a_wolf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Weston,
I wrote something years ago using a free SMTP program from the iSeries  
magazine as the e-mail sender. The nightly job would issue the email  
from a custom database that captured the UPS/FEDEX/Bill-of-Lading  
number retrieved from the shipping add-on.

The primary challenge is where are you storing the email addresses for  
the customers. My email database stores not only unlimited email  
addresses for each address type (customer; ship-to; vendor; etc.) but  
also which document that address is supposed to receive (order  
acknowledgement; ASN; invoice; EFT Remittance; etc.).

Eric

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Eric Wolf
XA Business Analyst
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On Jun 24, 2010, at 6:19 PM, "Weston Wheat" <wwheat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Hello All
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> Here is our present problem:
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> When a customer calls in, we have to track the package via UPS website
> and either tell them the status or email them a link to the page.  It
> would be great if we could automatically email a shipment confirmation
> with tracking number, etc when the order leaves our building.  If we  
> can
> solve this problem, this would save a fair amount of time.
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> How are you folks doing this?
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> Thanks
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> Weston
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