Online stock database launches

The database represents a further step in Zupplychain’s mission of building a fully functional relationship management and operational online portal for pallet storage.

The Stock Database enables customers to provide advance information to warehouses of pallet quantities, specifications and delivery dates. Zupplychain’s warehouses then confirm booking in and report discrepancies on-line, automatically notifying the customer, who can also use the Stock Database to send outbound movement instructions or information on additional inbounds to the warehouse provider.

At all times, both the customer and the warehouse can view status information for individual pallets or aggregated stock. For customers, a key feature of the Stock Database is in allowing them to view their Zupplychain stock across multiple warehouse providers without accessing multiple provider systems or by off-line enquiry.

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Linking all this together is a unique reference number (URN) for each pallet, attached as a label to the pallet. This ensures that customers can request the movement of specific pallets, safe in the knowledge that – with the provider having access to this URN – that exactly the right pallet will be picked.

"The stock database has been an integral part – possibly the central part – of the Zupplychain vision since the beginning," states Martin Elgood, Zupplychain managing director. "Having launched for warehouse registrations in February, and for customer searches in May, we have prioritised and accelerated its development so that warehouses and customers with storage agreements can benefit from it as soon as possible."

Elgood continues: "Launching the Stock Database not only gives our users an un-rivalled functionality, but allows us to move on to the next stage of development which will include container to pallets functionality and refinements to the presentation of search results. We hope to launch these over the next couple of months."