The Benefits of Using “Ventures”

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Customers often come to us trying to manage various aspects of their shipping schedules. There are several complaints we hear often: They have one sales order or purchase order with multiple shipments spanning an entire year. Their customer is sending one purchase order but they want to be able to invoice the shipments as soon […]

NetSuite vs. VISCO

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This is a question that is asked of us often, to the point that I feel compelled to answer it in a blog post.  To start with, it is not really a “vs.” thing because you can (and many of our customers do) run VISCO and NetSuite together in an integrated environment. In this way, […]

Why Global Trade Businesses should use ERP Software

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ERP Software, or Enterprise Resource Planning Software, is the software application that a company uses to integrate all departments within a company so the entire organization is able to share the same set of information. Traditionally, this type of software is purchased or built by large organizations who are willing and able to spend millions […]

Inventory Management

Inventory Management

Some of our customers manage inventory at several different warehouse locations. We often hear concerns about under or over buying goods, losing track of product, and communication to and from warehouse staff. With VISCO’s customizable inventory management tool, you too can get a handle on inventory in one or many warehouses. Inventory is tracked based […]

Did you know? Contact Groups

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Did you know that you can set up different groups for contacts in VISCO? For every contact you enter into the system, you have the ability to assign a contact group. This customizable list allows you to create different labels. So for example, if you wanted the ability to send bill of lading documents to […]

Did you know? Making Customers, Vendors and Products In-Active

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In VISCO users have the ability to make Customers, Vendors and/or Products inactive. There are several reasons why this might be useful to you and your team. Saving historical data. Though a customer may be buying product from you currently, you have the ability to keep their data in the system as inactive. This will […]

Getting shipment and inventory status into the hands Sales and Customer Service

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Some customers come to us wondering how they can better track their shipment status. They would like for their Sales team to be able to see inventory that is in transit and available to sell to customers, and track shipments when customers are asking for updates. Customer Service teams want to be able to send […]

VISCO User Conference 2013-Customer Access Portal

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Conference attendees learn how they can have customers log into VISCO via a web portal to pull up open order status, order history and easy access to documents and images related to their order.  

Shirley’s Blog – What Does a VISCO Customer Look Like?

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 It is a Small Importer who receives one to ten containers per month.  They buy VISCO and pay a rather small monthly fee for Web Hosting and an annual Maintenance & Support fee to use the software.  They tend to model their business to the constraints and identifiers used in the software.  They integrate their […]