Inbound and Outbound Control

Shipping & Receiving

Drive your shipping and receiving departments with up-to-date information from across the shop floor. Always know the status of every part and eliminate surprises.

2.5X

Ship faster

Exceed customer expectations – reduce lead times and meet them with confidence.

100%

Protect your data

Ensure your critical data stays safe with cloud backup and redundancy. Prevent data loss even in case of hardware failure or disaster.

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Stay In Sync

Get instant access to documentation, updates, and statuses to enable your team to make the right decisions.

AI-Powered Agents in Manufacturing

AI Agents, Working for You

Shipping

Agents can identify orders ready to ship, generate packing lists, track shipment status, and coordinate partial shipments

Logistics Coordination

Agents track shipping carriers, methods, and tracking numbers, record delivery dates, packaging types, and freight terms, and easily generate ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) and delivery confirmations

We don’t have enough stock to fulfill the entire order. Can you split it into partial shipments?

StartProto AI:

Order #4602 (500 units Product D) has been split into two shipments:

Shipment 1 (Ready Now): 300 units available, ships today
Shipment 2 (Backorder): 200 units scheduled for completion Aug 28

Customer has been notified of the partial shipment and updated invoices have been issued.

What’s the status of the parts we sent out for anodizing?

StartProto AI:

Job#2408 (sensor housings) is still at AnodizeCo. ETA is Friday. Everything else is back and in final QC.

Control Your Inbound and Outbound

Manage all of your shipping and receiving needs in one place. You can create and track purchase orders, manage vendor information, and automate receiving notifications to your team. Eliminate the need for manual data entry and ensure your receiving process is accurate and efficient.

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Shipment Management

Faster Shipping

Streamline your shipping process with intelligent prioritization and real-time tracking of what needs to ship.

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See all customer ship dates to track early or late shipments in one place.
Improve on-time delivery and keep in sync with real-time updates so accounting can invoice as orders ship.
Speed up the loading dock and easily attach photos, add notes, and see timestamps of what occurred.

Documentation & Reporting

Detailed Shipping Documentation

Stay accurate and compliant with comprehensive shipping documentation.

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Instantly prepare packing lists and Bills of Lading.
Print labels and check materials into inventory straight from the loading dock.
Keep your receiving and purchasing teams aligned on statuses and vendor issues.

Receiving and Quality Control

Efficient Receiving Management

Receive material digitally from any location and queue the shop to start work right away.

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Create labels when receiving materials to identify the exact job they are for.
Stay aligned with purchasing on the status of deliveries, vendor issues, and quality concerns.
Monitor the movement of subcontracted services to and from the vendor, ensuring transparency and accountability.

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shipping and Receiving for Outside Vendors

Inbound and Outbound OSP Tracking

Track outside processing (OSP) shipments with enhanced visibility, reduced lead times, and on-time deliveries with our robust OSP tracking module.

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Seamlessly track outbound OSP shipments, ensuring complete transparency when parts are shipped out for processing.
Efficiently manage inbound OSP shipments, receiving parts back with real-time status updates to reduce lead times.
Improve supplier collaboration and accountability with detailed shipment information, fostering better partnerships and consistent service quality.

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AI Applications in manufacturing

AI-Powered Manufacturing Modules

The more you use it, the better it gets.

Sales Orders

Operate more efficiently and grow revenue by improving and streamlining your sales workflow.

Outside Processing

Empowers your company to solve outside processing efficiently. This integrated approach ensures that outside processing is not only manageable but also scalable and profitable for growing businesses.

Quality Management

Unleash the full potential of quality management within your shop processes using first article tracking, NCR control, and enforced inspection steps at every step of production. Elevate your quality standards and empower excellence.

Routing & BOM

Create highly robust routing and BOMs in just a few clicks. Provide your operators with everything they need to succeed.

Shipping & Receiving

Drive your shipping and receiving departments with up-to-date information from across the shop floor. Always know the status of every part and eliminate surprises.

Shop Floor Communication

A thoughtful and integrated approach to manufacturing execution, ensuring that every aspect of the shop floor from knowing what job to work on next to providing real-time insights into work-in-progress and documentation collection for jobs.

Jobs & Scheduling

Scheduling and prioritizing jobs has never been easier. Assign operations to specific machines and personnel to manage your shop from anywhere, and use dashboards to ensure jobs are completed on time.

Purchase Planning

Streamline your procurement process through realtime suggestions based on your current inventory levels and needs. Discover cost-effective procurement suggestions and insight to boost efficiency and savings.

Inventory Management

Unlike any manufacturing software in the industry, StartProto gives you the ultimate ability to see where a workpiece is in real time. Now you will never guess again.