QuikVixBOL ™ is a "BOLT-ON" Utility to Print VICS Standard Bill Of Lading

Our product prints all of the VICS BOL Supplement Pages. It even draws the circles around "Y" and "N". QuikVixBOL ™ is the easiest and most cost effective way to become VICS BOL compliant! Bolt it on to your existing applications or run it stand alone with our GUI interface.

• Our Customers are shipping to JC Penney, Nordstrom, Bon-Ton, Federated, Target, Wal-mart, Home Depot, Lowes....
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QuikVixBOL ™ is the VICS Bill of Lading Bolt-On tool of choice by major manufacturers. It has saved $thousands and continues to do so, for many who supply goods to retailers such as JC Penney, Nordstrom, Dillard's, Federated, and the like.

One by one, retailers are becoming more and more strict with suppliers on standards compliance.

VICS (Voluntary Industry Commerce Standards) has created, among many other standards, a bill of lading that has been adopted by some of the larger retailers.

Our product, QuikVixBOL ™ is a true "Bolt-On" solution for anyone who already has a warehouse or logistics package that does not produce the VICS Bill of Lading. QuikVixBOL ™ is platform independent, so it will run on your Windows server or your Linux server. It will run on any platform that supports JAVA. It accepts a flat ASCII file that is specified in full detail in the documentation.

All you need to become VICS Bill of Lading compliant is:

• This package
• JAVA
• and an HP or compatible LASER printer

This demo is an unlicensed full version of the QuikVixBOL ™ product. It will interchange two random characters of each output field except for critical and bar-coded data. By having the full product you can kick the tires before purchasing for as long as you like.

BILL OF LADING OUTPUT ACCEPTED by JC Penney, Nordstrom, Bon-Ton, Federated....

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We recommend that you unzip the demo into a new directory and retain the directory structure of the zip. You will have two sub directories, documentation and sample applications. The documentation directory contains html files that explain the contents of the input file and how to call the QuikVixBOL ™ program.

You can run QuikVixBOL ™ from the command line by passing it a file or you can instantiate it in a JAVA application. There are sample programs and sample upload files that illustrate the different ways you can use this product. There is a sample GUI application that allows you to create actual Bills of lading on demand. You DO NOT NEED to be a JAVA programmer to use this product. You can create the BOL input file from any language you choose as it is just a fixed length ASCII file with section headers that specify which section of the BOL form should inherit the data.

There is even a sample SAP RFC and a SAP Server application. Both are written in JAVA and instantiate the QuikVixBOL ™ class. The section where you would place your custom code is clearly marked in each sample. The method you use is your choice.

Be warned, unless you have an SAP developer key or have access to the SAP development tools, specifically the JCO.jar for your platform, you will not be able to compile these examples. We are not authorized to distribute the SAP JCO.jar, however you can get more information from the SAP web site.

Once the demo is unzipped, you will need to modify the QuikVixBOL.ini file and the setpath.bat file. You must include QV.jar into your class path. The QuikVixBOL.ini file contains comments regarding the legal values of certain elements.

If you have trouble downloading the QuikVixBOL ™ demo contact us.

A super high end designer of today's top fashions and fragrances is using our VICS Bill of Lading software to print bills of lading for all of the top department stores. They are running it on an HP Unix platform with data from the Red Prairie WMS system. As you well know, many large retailers have either requested or required their vendors to use the VICS bill of lading. To ensure compliance, some of them dun their vendors for non-compliance in the form of a charge back. This is sort of like a penalty for hindering the retailer's efficiency. We've withheld the name of the designer until we are granted permission to use it in the way that they specify. Until then we see no harm in marketing our product as one that fills a need of SAKS', or JC Penney's, or Nordstrom's or Dillard's or BonTon's or Bloomingdale's or Federated's or Macy's or WalMart's or Target's or Lowes' or Home Depot's vendors, and just happens to have been accepted indirectly by all of them. Indirectly, because none of the retailers told anyone to use QuikVixBOL ™, but when they receive a bill of lading that has been printed via our VICS Bill of Lading software and accept it as the VICS standard, that's good enough for us.

A short success story.

One Monday in August 2002, a gentleman from Genesco contacted us about our VICS Bill of Lading software with several questions. We replied and instructed him to download the QuikVixBOL ™ demo and give it a try. By Thursday of that same week, after about three phone conversations and a few emails, he was printing Genesco's bills of lading using our product to produce the VICS format with data from Genesco's mainframe. Truly an astounding feat.

Another short success story.

A gentleman from Sunshine Mills downloaded our VICS Bill of Lading product, and after a fifteen minute phone conversation purchased it for his companies VICS BOL compliance needs. He said he was going to use the GUI interface, but quickly recognized that he could save a ton of time by integrating it into his system.

Consider quelling the threat of charge-backs in less than a week! Download our QuikVixBOL ™ demo and be on your way to charge-back free days!

← Traverse → ™. Bringing order from chaos.

← Traverse → ™ is a browser based tool that simplifies your ability to track anything that can be bar-coded. ← Traverse → ™ is powerful, versatile, scalable and affordable.

• Powerful because it is based on Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 and is tuned for performance.
• Versatile because you decide how to categorize the items that require tracking and how they are related and referenced.
• Scalable because deployment can be on a single server or across multiple servers, ← Traverse → ™ will grow with your organization.
• Affordable because small installations can use SQL Server 2008 Express edition, as your organization grows so too can your system scale with SQL Server 2008 standard edition or enterprise edition.

If you can barcode it ← Traverse → ™ can track it.

• Barcode Asset Tracking System
• Barcode Document Tracking System
• Barcode Evidence Tracking System
• Barcode Inspection System
• Barcode Security Checkpoint System
• Barcode Equipment Tracking System

Standard transactions include:

• Check in / Check out
• Move / Transfer
• Delete / Remove
• Block usage / Release for use

Standard reports include:

• Items by location
• Items by item type / location
• Locations and their items by type
• Depreciation
• Item history

Features:

• Easy to use
• Completely audited
• Simple depreciation available for assets
• Standard XML interfaces for import and export of data
• Standard set of reports
• Easily connected to Microsoft SQL Report Writer or Business Intelligence engine
• Print barcode labels
• Pocket PC / Windows Mobile modules support batch or wireless operation
• Source Code available ¹

Benefits:

• Save time locating assets or other important business items
• Save money on replacement of lost assets or other important business items
• Track warrantee, service schedules, and or expiration of items or receive ticklers for events
• Estimate the value of your assets with the press of a button
• Access information via any browser device that can access your network

¹ Call us for details. Certain fees apply. Nondisclosure agreements and no-compete contracts are required.

• Written in C#, JavaScript, and SQL
• Minimum environment requirement .Net Framework 2.0
• Uses standard AJAX controls
• Uses » Stripes «™
• Tuned for SQL Server 2008
• Works with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari
• Supports SSL {Secure Sockets Layer} for added security¹

Set up your items as you see fit.

If you are tracking fixed assets such as IT equipment, copiers, AV equipment, etc. you can declare asset types as IT, AV, etc.
Declare them as depreciable and assign them simple depreciation schedules. This is not to take the place of your accounting systems but rather to provide a quick estimate of a given asset's value.

If you are tracking files or documents, you can declare asset types such as "File Folder", "Gusset", "File Cabinet", "Storage Box" and assign rules such that a file folder can only be stored in a gusset which can be stored in a file cabinet or storage box.

If you are tracking evidence, you can store each piece of evidence in a bar-coded evidence bag each assigned to a case and stored in case bins.

If you are tracking tools.... you get the idea.

You can also store photographs of your items.

Print bar-coded asset tags, bar-coded location labels, bar-coded employee ID's using your current laser printer or ink jet printer with our built in barcode support.

Easily connect Barcode label design software such as BarTender, Nice Label, LoftWare, or others to design your own labels, or let us design them for you.

Talk to us about portable data terminals, barcode scanners, barcode printers, or preprinted barcode labels.

¹Purchase your SSL certificate from a trusted certificate authority.
There are many tracking systems available. Most are based on file system databases such as Microsoft Access or Microsoft Foxpro. Some use a Microsoft Access front end or client GUI and link to a database other than Access. Using this technique makes it very difficult to tune the application for performance.
Most are flexible in that the end user can easily customize them. These systems are great for small implementations where the number of users is fewer than 10 and the total number of assets is fewer than 25 thousand and the transaction volume is relatively small.

Our solution on the other hand:

• Is browser based which offers the most flexibility for deploying the application.
• Works with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.
• Uses Microsoft's .NET technology and Microsoft's SQL Server 2008.
• Is tuned for performance on both the ASP.NET level and on the SQL Server level.
• Imposes no limitations with regard to number of users or transaction volume.¹
• Is scalable.

As such, customizations must be carefully scoped and specified as to maintain optimal performance.

We certify that no customization will compromise any of your unique requirements.

We can make simple or complex enhancements to suit your needs.

You will receive a complete price quotation for all customizations so there are no surprises.

You can easily connect Barcode label design software such as BarTender, Nice Label, LoftWare, or others to design your own labels, or we can do it for you.

¹The terms high number of users and high transaction volumes are relative. Talk to us about how many concurrent users you need to support and what your expected transaction volume may be and we can help you choose the proper hardware platform.

» Stripes « ™ is our suite of Dot Net barcode tools.

Barcoding is a common thread among our products and many of our projects. We've been using barcodes in data collection applications since 1991. We've since learned enough about how barcodes work to create our own barcode rendering tools.

As web based applications become more and more popular, we recognized the need to go beyond the current offerings. Our suite of .NET barcode tools offer developers the most flexibility of any product on the market today.

Test drive » Stripes « ™, download our demo version for free.

• Stripes Overview
• Stripes Demo
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• Download Stripes

Our Stripes package includes three components:

• An ASP.NET Pure HTML Barcode Web Server control. Drag and drop it onto your forms.
  
• An ASP.NET graphical Barcode Web Server control. It works just like the pure HTML control, but also allows you to change orientation and resolution. It renders a bitmap stream that is formatted as JPG or Gif. There are no temp files to manage.
  
• A Dot Net DLL that renders both Pure HTML and Graphical barcodes so you can use it in any Dot Net application. Use it in a web service to render barcodes to your JSP applications.
  

The Stripes package also includes complete documentation and sample applications so you can see how to use the components.

• Pure HTML Features:

  • Displays in all major browsers, IE6 and 7, Opera, Forefox, and Safari.
  • Renders Pure HTML, not an attached graphics format.
  • Easy Drag and Drop capability for developers.
  • Human Readable fonts are supported by client.
  • Human Readable portion above or below bars or off.
  • X-Dimension adjustable from 15.8 mills to 45.8 mills

• Graphical Features:

  • Generates GIF or JPG output.
  • Does not produce temporary files. Output is written to current context.
  • Graphics resolution is adjustable from 96 DPI to 600 DPI for hi-res printers.
  • Orientation is adjustable 0º, 90 º, 180 º, 270 º.
  • X-Dimension adjustable from 7.5 mills to 45.8 mills. Use Higher Resolution for 7.5 mills.
  • Human Readable fonts are generated by server.
  • Human Readable portion above or below bars or off.

» Stripes « ™ Technical Info:

• Written entirely in C# - Visual Studio 2005
  
• Minimum environment requirement .Net Framework 2.0
  
• Easy 4 step process to place our control in your toolbox
  
  • Right click in tool box
    
  • Select "Choose Items"
    
  • Browse to the location of the » Stripes « ™ Web Control
    
  • Select Graphic or Pure HTML
    
  Drag controls onto your Web Form
  

The demo version will interchange two random characters until it is licensed. In this way you can play with it as long as you like. When you are ready to purchase, we'll send you the licensed version.