The ability to track all shipments from a single dashboard and to analyze your spend across modes and carriers make you an expert shipper. This will allow you to manage your shipping operations better and see where money is being wasted, understand the differences between modes and carriers, and review valuable data to understand and implement process improvements.
Enterprise Features and Benefits for Any Size Business
Shop, Ship, Track, Analyze, and Audit all your shipments through one easy-to-use cloud based TMS platform to lower costs and grow your bottom line.
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Rate Shopping – Find the best rates and transit times for every shipment across all carriers and all modes. Customers typically save 20-30% using FreightPOP’s preferred FedEx rates.
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Create Shipments – Order information automatically input from Four51 Storefront and a wide variety of ERP/Back Office systems. Generate all labels and BOLS from one system.
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3rd Party Shipping - Manage your 3rd-party shipping from suppliers using the exclusive FreightPOP FedEx program to get actual costs at the time of delivery, in-transit tracking to improve customer support and save additional money using standard business workflow.
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Centralized Tracking – See all shipments (including 3rd-party) and all carriers in one interface. Complete visibility into the transit process by providing a dashboard view including shipment tracking updates, segmented tracking data based on segmented tracking numbers and notifications for changes in shipment status.
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Analytics – Reports available include spend by carrier, spend by type, the lowest quote, carrier rate comparison, shipment details, lane analysis, cost per unit, and other tracking information.
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Invoice Auditing – Automated invoice auditing to get refunds on service issues. Most customers experience savings of up to 10%. Refunds show up on your regular invoices from FedEx.
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Return Process - Straightforward return process to email or send out return labels.
To get started:
- Go to https://info.freightpop.com/four51 to register with FreightPOP and start the process.
- A FreightPOP representative will contact you to provide an overview of FreightPOP, set up your account, configure the system to your business needs, and conduct a brief training session for your team.
- Using the case system, you should then contact Four51 to implement (see process below) the integration with Storefront and you will be ready to start shipping better and saving money.
Four51 Implementation
Once you are set up with your FreightPOP account, you should submit a case to Four51 support and request that Four51 enables the FreightPOP integration. If you have an existing XML feed coming from Four51, we will need to create a CMP (Custom Message Processor) to send the order information to FreightPOP in addition to your existing system. If you do not have XML enabled, Four51 will enable XML to FreightPOP. We will generally enable the XML or CMP on our test system first for testing the integration. Once you are satisfied with the testing, we can enable the XML and CMP on production.
The integration between FreightPOP and the Four51 Storefront platform will send order data from Four51 into the FreightPOP system. Shipping users can then use FreightPOP to rate shop, select the best carrier, generate labels and BOLS, ship the order and the system will send shipment data back to Four51 to complete the order and get the tracking number back to the end user. The integration provides seamless information exchange between the systems to eliminate errors and labor associated with manual order entry.
Workflow:
- Order submitted on Four51 and Order Request XML is sent to FreightPOP
- Order XML is received by FreightPOP and the order information and line items are added to FreightPOP
- FreightPOP creates shipment, generates labels, ships the items and FreightPOP will send the ship notice XML back to Four51 to close out the order and email the end user with the tracking number if enabled.
How to use Storefront and FreightPOP for 3rd-Party Shipping
As mentioned above, one of the huge advantages of using Storefront and FreightPOP is the ability to manage your 3rd-party shipping from suppliers using the exclusive FreightPOP FedEx program to get actual costs at the time of delivery, in-transit tracking to improve customer support and save additional money using standard business workflow. Every time you send an order from Storefront to a supplier, you can automatically include your FedEx number and tell the supplier to ship using your FedEx number.
The best way to make sure your FedEx number is included with every order to each supplier is to login to Storefront as an admin user, select Assign Ship method, select edit, and set the default account number to your FedEx number. This number will then be included in the supplier XML if the supplier has XML enabled or it will be included in the email that Storefront sends to the supplier.
Pricing
There are no fees from Four51 to enable the integration between Four51 Storefront and FreightPOP. There may be feed to enable XML or create a CMP. FreightPOP subscription pricing for parcel shipments is based on a per-shipment fee and pricing for LTL/FTL is based on a monthly subscription fee plus a per-shipment fee. FreightPOP will provide pricing.
Support
Four51 provides support for the delivery of the order data from Storefront to FreightPOP. FreightPOP provides support for everything related to the FreightPOP solution.
Questions? Contact your Four51 account rep.