State of the Art Technology and Systems Design are essential and will be found at the heart of any successful, growing organization who is serious about quality.
                                                                                              -- Bradley Felker , MDS President & CEO

MDS system's expertise first grew out of an involvement throughout the decade of the 1980's as a systems integrator -- specifying, installing, programming, and supporting sophisticated radio frequency (RF) bar-code based warehouse management systems (WMS), database applications, and providing software and programming support.

The same MDS systems and programming resources that successfully pioneered the earliest and subsequent evolving applications of this technology in varied pick-pack, distribution, and manufacturing environments around the globe support a custom developed hybrid application for MDS Fulfillment. MDS relies on this creative, experienced programming staff and its resilient systems to give client programs a solid foundation and keep them healthy and growing.

Web Access is an extension to the MDS warehouse-centric fulfillment system that operates multiple logistics operations, eliminating the need for expensive and cumbersome interfaces between different systems. The MDS Fulfillment system is built on the Microsoft platform and adheres to Microsoft .NET development architecture. The system utilizes Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server Database Technology, and other tools such as Crystal Reports. Development tools include Visual Basic, .NET, and C# .

Features of MDS Fulfillment Systems, Web Access, and Database include:

 
  Web-based Order Entry
- Unique Order ID
- Item numbers and quantity
- Allotment control by customer
- Item display, description and unit price
- Manufacturer and unit of measure
- PO # display
- Ship-to override
- Date needed/expected
- Buyer backorder option
- Sales tax, shipping charges, handling charge estimates
- Save Shopping basket as default, template, favorite list
- Change order request
- Print orders
- E-mail notification when order status changes

Item Catalogs
- Catalog names as link
- Catalog product group hierarchy/drill-down
- Catalog associated with specific customer(s)
- Promotional catalogs
- Catalog item images
- Customer specific catalog templates
- Modify templates
- Product specs and item detail with product image
- Roll out promotions and rules for minimum buys
- Complementary items (up sell)
- Copy lines new order from catalog search results
- Availability check in catalog search
- Search results with item number, description and price
- Advanced search by keywords

Other
- Save basket for future access
- Copy items from saved basket for new order
- Order header display shows Ship Via Carrier and Tracking ID
- Multiple ship-to accounts for single bill-to account
- Credit status
- Login and SSL Security

Product Information:
- SKU Maintenance (all products within warehouse)
- Lot and serial number tracking
- UPC numbers, customer specific product numbers
- Weight, cube, dimensions
- Location Manager
- Specific location (zone, aisle, bay, level, slot) for each quantity of each product
- Customer specific catalogs
- Substitution control
- Cycle counting

Customer Data:
- Names
- Addresses
- Ship-to
- Bill-to
- Phone, fax, other contact
- Customer rules
- Pricing/Costing
- Taxing
- Customer Catalog
- Items they can buy
- Notes 

Order Information:
- Open orders
- Allocations
- Wave management
- Picking
- Kitting
- Shipping (dock/door assignment) and load verification
- Event Manager
- Tracks billable events

Reporting:
- Standard and flexible-built reports from SQL database available via network and web-link for external inquires.
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