Warehouse document coordination
Keep shipping documents within reach of the people who need them.
SIP’s separate coordination offering supports shipping documents such as bills of lading, proofs of delivery and purchase orders, with document access and history.
For warehouses sharing delivery paperwork with carriers and customers.
Part of SIP’s separate coordination offering. Connection to SIP WMS is planned.
Discuss your workflowIllustrative workflow
How the work connects
Identify
Name the document and the authoritative record.
Control
Agree who may access it and who approves sharing.
Hand off
Test the retrieval and sharing workflow in the relevant product.
A document request should start with a reference
SIP’s coordination offering includes shipping-document sharing, digital BOL and POD capture, and a searchable document repository. These give the team a place to look when a carrier or customer asks for delivery paperwork.
Agree the references your team uses to find a document: the delivery, the appointment or the customer’s purchase-order number. Consistent references make the document easier to locate.
Plan the document handoff alongside the delivery
Before a delivery, identify the paperwork the warehouse needs. After the handoff, identify the evidence the carrier or client may need. That makes document coordination part of the operating process.
For example, a missing delivery document can become an operational request. The person resolving it needs to know which reference is missing and who can provide it.
Connect the coordination process to the warehouse
Document coordination belongs to the existing separate SIP offering. Its integration with SIP WMS is planned alongside the broader external-communication workflow.
The implementation discussion establishes document types, access needs and the handoffs between the separate tools and warehouse execution.
Frequently asked questions
Which document types does the coordination offering cover?
The public offering describes bills of lading, proofs of delivery and purchase orders. Confirm your required formats and access workflow during implementation.
Are all WMS documents synchronized automatically?
The connection to SIP WMS is planned. The separate coordination offering has its own document workflow today.
What is a useful example to bring?
Bring the steps of a delivery-document request: who asks, which reference they provide, where the document originates and who should receive it.
Bring your warehouse workflow
Talk through your orders, clients and handoffs before choosing a system.
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