Re: UPS worldship

We automated the creation of the UPS shipping label. We put that on the
boxes leaving our warehouse, and UPS picks them up each afternoon.

We generate a shipping list each morning, with a barcode containing the
customer ID and the product type. UPS provides the Worldship program and
a barcode scanner, along with some custom programming. Our shipping clerk
scans the barcode on the shipping report, the number of boxes, and a 'End
of Shipment' barcode. At that point the Worldship program looks up the
customer name and address from our customer file, gets the product weight,
and generates the shipping tag. The Worldship program also writes to a
file listing all of the items shipped, along with the shipping charges, on
the System i. It also writes the UPS shipping file on the PC. After all
the product is ready for shipment, the clerk runs an end of day procedure
to finalize the UPS shipping file and send the shipping information to
UPS.

Steve

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express





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Can you elaborate more on what you mean by automate shipping? Is that
means that your company has a warehouse in the UPS location or is that
means that your application is generating the UPS bar code via UPS
worldship and UPS come and pick up the item later from your company's
warehouse and ship it?



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UPS Worldship can read and update data on the System i thru ODBC. It

is

pretty reliable, but depending on what you are updating, you should

still

validate the data from the Worldship application.

We wrote an application to automate shipping and update our inventory.

It's pretty low volume (1 shipping clerk, part time).

Steve

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does anyone know if it is possible to integrate in-house RPG

application

with UPS worldship application? If so, is it pretty simply and
reliable?

thanks
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