TrueCommerce, a global provider of trading partner connectivity, integration, and unified commerce services, has announced TrueCommerce Pack & Ship – a powerful network application for consumer goods companies that simplifies outbound fulfillment and trading partner compliance. A connected application plugged into the TrueCommerce Foundry platform, Pack & Ship works seamlessly with other Foundry-powered extensions as one robust yet easy to use web-based solution.

“Stringent delivery expectations and growing fulfillment costs are placing incredible pressure on organizations to streamline their fulfillment operations,” said TrueCommerce president Ross Elliott. “Our TrueCommerce Pack & Ship offering consolidates multiple, disparate applications into a unified platform. Designed as a connected application, it combines order integration from a variety of digital channels, shipping, EDI, back office system integration and customer service — accelerating outbound fulfillment, improving productivity and efficiency while simplifying compliance with major retailers’ requirements.”

Delivered completely as a web-based solution, TrueCommerce Pack & Ship boosts fulfillment capabilities by standardizing packing and shipping across all order fulfillment methods, eliminating manual efforts and increasing throughput. It also reduces freight spend through dynamic rate shopping, optimal carrier selection, and service option to achieve the promised delivery service level across more than 60 certified carriers. USPS Commercial Plus pricing is included with every postal account.

The platform eliminates returns and costly shipping errors with intelligent pack verification, street level address validation, and the enforcement of flexible shipping workflow rules, ensuring the right products in the right quantities are shipped to the right locations, at the right time. It also synchs orders from all channels—including fast growing marketplaces like Amazon, Wal-Mart and others, and popular shopping cart platforms lke Shopify, Magento or TrueCommerce Nexternal. It integrates with over 20 ERP and business systems and offers powerful shipping rules to automate routing compliance such as third party billing, carrier reference fields, and carrier selection. Available cartonization functionality optimizes package and pallet utilization and decrease freight spend.

Vendor scorecards reduce chargebacks with automatic generation of compliant ASNs, GS1 labels, branded packing slips, shipping labels, and packing lists. The system also provides operational analytics including freight spend, fulfillment throughput and performance metrics.

TrueCommerce Foundry offers a broad set of unified commerce services and apps that connects customers, suppliers, channels, and systems. The Foundry platform offers immediate supply chain connectivity, integration and visibility by utilizing TrueCommerce’s Global Commerce Network which includes over 92,000 pre-connected retailers, distributors, and logistics service providers.