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So you're the new Distribution Manager.
You've got BLACKBIRD PTMS and you're wondering what it can do for you.
Glad you asked …
Things are complicated out there.
You took the job knowing your headcount would be cut, and you’ll be forced to plan and ship more loads with fewer people. Not only that, the folks in Marketing are constantly coming up with better ideas for improving customer service, and that means you have to select the pulp to be loaded with more attention to detail than you’ve ever seen anywhere before – with tighter load control and better documentation, to name just a couple of the issues. Most worrisome of all, while all of this is happening, now there’s Just-In-Time delivery – so you don’t even have the time you had at your last job to correct the inevitable mistakes. I can see why you’re wondering if coming here was the smartest career move you ever made.
But hold on – now you have BLACKBIRD PTMS. With it, you can handle the challenges of your job and still have a life.
What you’ve got in BLACKBIRD PTMS is a system designed to apply Best Practices to help you do these things. It’ll make selection for customers simple. It’ll check the quality for you against standard grade specs, customer specs, or even very detailed “one-off” order specifications. If anything is out of spec, BLACKBIRD PTMS will let you know instantly, and won’t allow the selection unless and until you or your authorized staffer has approved it. When an order is a real bear to fill, BLACKBIRD PTMS will let you know and will even make it easy to locate whatever suitable pulp is available in inventory, either locally or at any remote or consignment warehouse. BLACKBIRD PTMS will also accurately calculate the costs of alternate routings, even with foreign exchange rates fluctuating like they do.
Finally, when it comes to the documentation, BLACKBIRD PTMS will use the default list of documents for that customer to generate everything required – such as customer-specific Quality Certificates, Bills of Lading, Packing Lists, Certificates of Origin, Mate’s Receipts or whatever you need. And automatically send as many copies as are specified for that shipment to the appropriate local or remote printers – even fax them to the warehouse, or directly to the customer!
Want to keep lists of exactly what is being shipped today, this week, maybe what you did last week or what pulp you have available in Rotterdam? BLACKBIRD PTMS makes it easy for you to define any number of custom list screens with formatted reports from these lists, and save these for your later use. And you can export the best of your personal list reports for the use of others in your department or company.
And that’s just the start – BLACKBIRD PTMS has many other integrated functions to help you do your job – no more tracking odd things in Excel or wishing someone else was keeping up with details of the requirements of each customer and end user, complaints and resolutions from the sales department, notes for various kinds of issues, and an easy way to find something you need from those notes.
Built on a stable and secure database, either Oracle or SQL Server, BLACKBIRD PTMS is the enterprise-wide solution that links best business practices for your work functions (and others) into an overall system designed specifically for the market pulp industry. BLACKBIRD PTMS is a “Best Practices” system, and can stand alone to provide quality, production and distribution management, as well as sales order fulfillment right through to multi currency commercial invoicing. Or, BLACKBIRD PTMS can link back to the corporate sales order system, if your company has one.
Your competition is using information systems to help them do a better job. Why not go one better with BLACKBIRD PTMS, a “Best Practices” system?
To find out more about how BLACKBIRD PTMS can guarantee you’re On Track, On Time, On Budget in distribution, contact us today.