QuickBooks Integration: Advanced Points of Integration & Add-Ons
Outstanding Receivables and Credit Limit Checks In VISCO most reports will show you information strictly based on what the user(s) have entered into VISCO up to that point, however, there are a few areas in VISCO that will also provide information based on QuickBooks information as well. Specifically, the Outstanding Receivables by Customer Report and […]
Efficiency Scores for VISCO Users (Draft)
How One Company Built an Inventory Planning tool to Purchase Efficiently from Overseas
During implementations, customers will often bring us a problem within their business that they are hoping VISCO will help them to solve. One recent customer came to us with the question of how to best forecast what they should be buying. In their current system, it was really hard to see what was available to […]
How One Drop Ship Company Created Their Own Payment Tracking
Some companies that are looking to use VISCO aren’t looking to integrate with QuickBooks but would still like a way to track incoming and outgoing payments. One Drop Ship customer asked if we could build out our default Invoice area to include payments entered on both accounts receivable and payable. At the time of this […]
Addressing the “Two Systems” Concern
How a specialized logistics and distribution ERP integrates with existing Accounting software…successfully As co-founder and head of VISCO Operations, I’m often asked to justify a decision we made 19 years ago when we developed our highly focused logistics and distribution ERP without including basic accounting functions that we ourselves had written from scratch. I have […]
Simple Order Management for Drop Ship Importers
As a Drop Ship Company or a company shipping full container loads directly to customers, you do not need to spend time and make mistakes by entering both the sales orders and purchase orders separately. That type of order entry is fine if you are shipping out of inventory but is a waste of energy […]
Get freight quotes and book freight in VISCO
We are excited to finally go live with the our Frightquote.com integration. If you have moved to the new 4.0 version you have probably already noticed the little icon in the Sales Order, Quote, Container and Delivery maintenance screen. Clicking this link allows you an opportunity to view freight carriers that are available to ship […]
VISCO now integrated with Railinc Rail Sight railcar tracing service
We are excited to announce the new integration available with Railinc’s Rail Sight Tracing product. Rail Sight records railcar and intermodal equipment movements on more than 550 rail carriers throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico in near real time around the clock. The integration with VISCO allows for scheduled “trace’s” which will periodically […]
Limitations of using Microsoft Excel to manage inventory
In the start up phase many companies will use Microsoft Excel manage inventory as it is a simple to use software and most people are comfortable working in that environment. While volumes of transactions remain low and information only needs to be managed and seen by one person this solution will work quite nicely. However, […]
The components of landed cost
The landed cost is a term used by importers to calculate the real cost to bring a product to their door. This is a more accurate view of the cost of a product then just looking at the cost you pay a supplier to buy product from them. How the landed cost is calculated […]
