What is ASN?
An Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) is a digital document that offers comprehensive details about an upcoming delivery. Commonly used in supply chain management, ASN acts as an alert from the sender to the receiver, notifying them of an incoming shipment and providing specifics about its contents.
Challenge
- Customer's accounting and receiving departments were spending an excessive amount of time managing receipts.
Solution
- By offering detailed, pre-shipment information, ASN’s enabled our customer to plan and manage their inventory more efficiently.
- Knowing the exact contents, quantities, and expected arrival times allows our customer to streamline their receiving processes, reduce downtime, and avoid storage bottlenecks.
Results
- Reallocation of time saved on reconciling invoices to handing different tasks
- Better coordinate production schedules
- Effectively meet customer demands
- Eliminate manual data entry
- Increase accuracy and reliable data to their system
Leveraging data and our knowledge beyond just fastening, Field was able to
reduce the amount of time spent processing receipts by 69%.
