3PLink® Logistics Management System (3PLMS) is an integrated suite of applications built within Microsoft Dynamics NAV that give you the tools to plan, manage, and execute a world-class, 3PL transportation and/or public warehouse operation. 3PLink® integrates with leading Microsoft products and technologies to boost productivity, connectivity and business insight for small, medium and large-sized companies.
3PLink® & Microsoft Dynamics NAV Technology
The Right Choice...
Dynamics NAV is the world's leading business solution from Microsoft. 3PLink® from Camelot, built within Dynamics NAV, supercharges NAV to be the cutting-edge logistics management solution specifically for third-party logistics (3PL) providers. You get the newest, world-class technology for financial management and information visibility integrated with state-of-the-art, 3PL-specific features, tools and processes, including warehouse management and transportation. No other application comes close to the technology, the power, or the features bundled together with the mission-critical focus needed for third-party logistics providers and their customers.
...for the Right Reasons.
The powerful combination of Microsoft technology, development and support along with Camelot's 3PL industry expertise, gives 3PLs and their customers:
- Huge economies of scale for lowest cost,
- Massive investment for new technologies,
- Critical 3PL focus and expertise, and
- Broad market for add-on technology, services and support
Advanced Technology
Accurate data in real time gives your clients the reliable, timely information they need to make strategic decisions quickly. When speed of information and accuracy are critical, you need cutting-edge tools to drive your strategic value to your customers. Better real-time data gives them more control over their business and that makes them more competitive. Better real-time data gives you more control over your operations and that improves your efficiency, reduces your losses, lowers your costs, and makes you a better partner for your clients.
3PLink® offers all the latest tools to keep you on the cutting edge:
- RF barcode scanning and RFID
- EDI
- Integrated interfaces for wireless mobile devices
- Web access and real-time data visibility
- Tools to automate customer communications
- Real-time business intelligence and reporting
- Document imaging and management
Key Benefits with Microsoft Office Suite
3PLink® works like and with the Microsoft Office system programs your people use every day, which helps them work productively because they can access, use, and share data and information without switching applications or reentering data. Even when they're working in 3PLink®, they can easily produce a wide range of reports in Microsoft Office Excel®, create customized communications in Microsoft Office Word, and monitor customer relationships through Microsoft Office Outlook. For example, from within Microsoft Word, you can build queries that will extract data directly from the 3PLink® database to create custom letters. Sophisticated queries can be made in programs, such as Microsoft Excel, producing reports and analyses of up-to-the-minute financial and other data. With Microsoft Excel, data from 3PLink® can be read directly into a spreadsheet to produce quick, customized reports and charts.
The look and feel of familiar Office applications means less training time for your employees and lower costs for you. If your employees have worked with a Microsoft program or surf the Internet, they have all the experience they need to begin to use the system. Instant access to the information they need to do their jobs, such as analytical reports and real-time integrated data, means higher personal and team productivity.
WORLD-CLASS ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT POWERHOUSE:
End-to-end integration to efficiently manage your
- general ledger,
- payables, receivables and collections,
- analytical accounting,
- fixed assets, and
- cash flow and bank reconciliations.
Affordably priced for large to small business,
3PLink®harnesses the power of the world's most advanced financial management platform for technology-hungry 3PLs. Microsoft Dynamics NAV accounting and finance solutions are the engine that help you track and analyze your business and financial information even across multiple currencies, languages, locations, or companies.
Multiple Languages/Multiple Currencies
Send invoices and order confirmations in your customer's language and communicate effectively with trading partners in other countries. With multicurrency capabilities you can present financial information in the currency of choice so that partners and customers can view their balances in local currency.
Rapid Configuration and Development
Easily adapt your business management solution to the way you do business. Designed to help you limit your requirement for highly qualified IT professionals, these tools enable system administrators and programmers to add new and modify existing functionality quickly and with limited coding. With the suite of powerful industry-standard tools and technologies included with your solution, whether you customize and extend 3PLink®-Dynamics NAV yourself or use a certified developer, your system can continue to grow with you and meet your customers' ever changing requirements. The open architecture, open-source code features and robust development platform of Dynamics NAV ensure its scalability and flexibility and eliminate your reliance on a single source of support. You can depend on this solution to grow with you and sustain you for the long term.
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Dynamics NAV with 3PLink® is the only World-Class 3PL Logistics Management Solution priced for small business. Even with more advanced features, technology, and data reliability, it is still priced far lower than all other leading systems for 3rd-Party Logistics.
Your total cost of ownership (TCO) is lower because of these key value drivers:
- Microsoft's huge economies of scale mean that you get the latest technology at a fraction of the cost of other 3PL solution developers - the 3PL market by itself is just too small. 3PLink® leverages Microsoft's global scale and resources to deliver better technology, more advanced features, and a lower price.
- Rapid application development with Dynamics NAV automates programming and lowers the cost to build the tools and features needed for 3PL transportation and public warehousing. Camelot can develop new functionality and custom enhancements faster and more reliably - that saves money.
- Lower costs of maintenance and support with the Dynamics NAV automated support tools that speed the implementation of upgrades and enhancements. Microsoft is your assurance that your solution will be compatible and integrate efficiently with other technologies and products, including emerging operating systems, productivity tools, and advanced hardware.
- Rapid implementation and training saves you time and money. 3PLink's modular design clarifies and separates the implementation tasks to make the process more transparent. Powerful configuration options get the system set up for your business without custom programming. Training tools like self-paced video instruction and workbooks get your users up to speed quickly and reliably.
- Annual enhancements and upgrades from Microsoft and Camelot assure the strategic value of your system for the long term - you'll stay on the cutting edge and never have to switch platforms again. Only Microsoft can give you that assurance.
- Blazing fast data entry and rapid tools to find and analyze information, speed your users' productivity and lower your costs of operation - they get more done in less time with less stress and fewer errors. Screens are configured to each user's preference to reduce clutter and unused fields, hot-keys are consistent throughout to reduce dependence on slow, mouse-based operation, and the system anticipates and automates your users' repetitive data entry.
Make no mistake: All solutions are not created equal. Only one system is designed to have the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Only one system means that you aren't willing to compromise your customers' data. And only Dynamics NAV with 3PLink® is backed by the most advanced technology company in the world: Microsoft.
