Want to Reduce Receiving Time at Your Furniture Warehouse by 30%?

This content was updated on December 18th, 2023

What furniture retailer wouldn’t want to cut receiving time and associated labor costs by 30%? The real question is, how to do it?

With integration and automation from ecUtopia, this level of improvement in receiving efficiency can be straightforward for furniture retailers to accomplish.

Pre-Label Your Boxes with RFID Numbers

In a traditional receiving scenario, a truck pulls up to your warehouse with 100 boxes on it. The boxes are unloaded and staged, while you pay someone to stand on the loading dock with an envelope full of RFID labels. They examine a box, identify the SKU number, find the corresponding label, and apply it to the box. And so on to the next and the next.

In the “30% time savings” scenario, all the boxes are pre-labeled with RFID numbers. So there is no need to stage everything or match SKUs and labels. You can scan each box as it comes off the truck.

Enable Cross-Docking with ecUtopia

Meanwhile, as the warehouse crew is putting the scanned boxes away, the products they contain are already “visible” to your salespeople and available to be sold. You can also enable cross-docking with your ecUtopia system — saving not only time and money but also “touches” on the furniture.

Work with Suppliers of Any Size

With ecUtopia, you can use pre-labeling with RFID numbers with suppliers of any size. For example, say you send a $30,000 PO to Ashley Furniture. Your PO includes the RFID numbers for each line item you are ordering. As Ashley Furniture fulfills your order, they automatically import the RFID numbers from your PO into their ERP. Then when they’re ready they can simply print out the RFID labels, put them on the boxes, and ship them.

Or maybe your supplier is a two-person shop making decorative ducks in a garage in backwoods Maine. They would check their ecUtopia portal to get your PO, then use the portal again to print out the labels and put them on the boxes full of ducks that you ordered. When the truck pulls up at your warehouse, you can scan the boxes, put them away, and start selling ducks — again, in 30% less time.

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What is TrueCommerce-ecUtopia?

TrueCommerce-ecUtopia is an end-to-end, single-source, and cloud-based commerce network. It’s designed to enable complete visibility with your trading partners, data mapping, and data translation.

Our program allows you to drop ship orders to customers directly from the manufacturer or supplier, allowing companies to save on inventory and handling costs.

The software streamlines transactions between customers and manufacturers. Manufacturers can see the orders and print out all your branded materials to ensure consistency and seamless order fulfillment. The order will look like it came from your business.

What solutions does TrueCommerce-ecUtopia offer?

TrueCommerce-ecUtopia provides a way to work smarter, not harder. It supports the following tasks so your team can devote more time and effort to other priorities:

• Dock scheduling and yard management: Improve your dock and yard’s scheduling efficiency to save time and money.
• Direct shipping to customers: Send faster deliveries to your customers so you can stay competitive among others.
• Order status and inquiries: Invest in automatic processing to send your customers an order confirmation with accurate information about their product quantities and ship dates.
• Parts order management: Maintain an understanding of your inventory levels to reduce order errors and delays or plan ahead when working with your suppliers.
• Web vendor portal: Connect with all your retailers and trading partners in an easy, quick way.
• Load tendering: Compare order shipping services and rates from your preferred freight carriers.

How does TrueCommerce-ecUtopia work?

First, TrueCommerce will establish connectivity with your trading partners. We’ll map all the existing data fields between your partners and your organization.

We convert your data from its original format to match your partners’ data format, ensuring a swift and error-free transmission over a secure network for an efficient experience.

Speed Up and Simplify Your Supply Chain Today

If you’d like to streamline receiving and cut labor cost through pre-labeling with RFID numbers, let’s talk. To learn more, contact our team at TrueCommerce today!