Supplier ASNs, labels and despatch verification

Every box labelled, every box checked.

Your suppliers pack the delivery on the portal, print standard Odette labels on the printer they already have, and scan every box with a phone before the lorry leaves. Where you want it, a second scan reads the separate part barcode on each box, so the part inside is proved to match the label outside. Your system receives one standard message saying what was seen to leave. No web EDI portal, no per-supplier fees, no special printer.

What it costs you now

Three costs you already know.

We will not guess your figures. Put your own numbers against these three.

The web EDI portal

Fees, and small suppliers who never join.

A web EDI service charges per supplier or per message, and the suppliers who need it most are the ones who will not pay. So the ASNs you most want are the ones you never get.

The label printer

An industrial printer at every supplier.

A full-size transport label wants a 6-inch printer. Most small suppliers do not have one, so the label on the box is whatever their office printer made of it.

The mislabelled box

Found on your line, not at their dock.

Sorting, a line stop, a chargeback nobody can prove, because nobody can say what actually left the supplier, or how the pallet looked when it did.

How it works

Pack, print, scan, send.

Four steps the supplier does in the portal, each one checked before the next. The screens are on the demo, and we walk them on the call.

1 · Pack

The delivery, drawn

Each part in its own colour, the pallets drawn with their boxes, and the pallet count in large type for the forklift and the lorry. Several parts can share a pallet; thirty identical pallets are one picture with a count.

2 · Print

Standard labels, any printer

The Odette transport label, two to an A4 sheet, or the compact A6 label to the same ISO standard, four to a sheet or one at a time on a 4-inch label printer through its normal driver. Nothing to install.

3 · Scan

Every box, with a phone

The phone opens from a code on the screen: no app, no sign-in. It reads each label, one pallet at a time, says what is left on the pallet in hand, and asks for a photo of each pallet when it is complete. Where you switch it on, it then reads each box's own part barcode, and the box only ticks when the part matches its label.

4 · Send

A slot, and the message

Only days your site can take a delivery are offered. Send books the slot and writes one message to your system, with every box, its serial and its batch, and when the check was done.

The packing page: nine pallets, eight identical pallets drawn once with their count, one mixed pallet of two parts and three loose boxes
Pack: the delivery as the portal draws it, each part in its colour, identical pallets drawn once with their count.
A compact transport label: ship from, ship to, article number, a large quantity, the package ID as a Code 128 barcode, a Data Matrix and a QR with a three-letter check code
Print: the compact label, the same standard content on an A6 or 4 × 6 inch label, or four to an A4 sheet.
A phone moves to the square code on each box's label in turn; each one beeps and ticks, then the pallet is photographed
Scan: the drawing the supplier sees on the Verify screen. Each label beeps and ticks; then the pallet is photographed.
The portal as it is

The screens, from the demo.

Real pages from the demo site, a supplier sending ten boxes on two pallets.

01 · Pack

Two pallets, ten boxes, twelve labels.

The supplier says how the part is packed; the delivery is drawn above, with the pallet count first. Every change saves itself, and Undo takes one back.

The packing page: two pallets, ten boxes, twelve labels, the part in its row with its box type, pieces in each box and the pallets it goes on
The packing page: the delivery drawn, the part in one row with every choice in it.
02 · Print

Every label, before it is printed.

Each label is drawn on the screen and listed with its package ID. One Print button; the paper is chosen once and remembered.

The labels page: Odette labels drawn on screen, every label listed with its package ID, part, pieces and packaging, and the verification count
The labels page: two pallets, ten boxes, every label drawn and listed.
03 · Scan

Ticking off as the phone sees them.

The Verify screen shows the supplier how to scan, and every label ticks a moment after the phone reads it, with the time and who scanned it. The pallet in hand is marked, with what is left on it.

The Verify screen: how to scan, four of twelve labels scanned, the pallet in hand with two to go, each scanned label with its time and the person who scanned it
The Verify screen, four labels in: the pallet in hand and what is left on it.
What your goods-in gets

Proof of what left, before it arrives.

Labels your scanners read

The Odette standard, checked.

Code 128, Data Matrix and a QR on every label, to the Odette transport label standard. Every barcode is read back in our own tests before a release goes out.

Wrong part caught at their dock

A second scan: the part matches the label.

For a supplier with a mislabelling history, switch on the part-label check: after each transport label the phone reads the separate barcode on the box's own part label, and the box only ticks when the part, and the quantity where it is given, match. A mismatch is recorded, and the box stays unticked until it is put right.

The photo is the evidence

Each pallet, with its time and place.

A screen can be scanned; a pallet cannot be faked. Each photo is kept with the time and where the phone was, so a crushed pallet has a history. Where you require it, nothing is sent until every label is scanned.

The Odette transport label: ship from, ship to, the delivery note, a large quantity, the article number, the package ID as a Code 128 barcode, a Data Matrix and a QR with a three-letter check code
The Odette transport label, A5, two to an A4 sheet: drawn here by the portal itself, with demo details.
What it does to your EDI

Nothing you do not ask for.

One documented message, the same for every customer: JSON, or CSV as a header and a lines file, with everything a DESADV carries. It waits at a pick-up point or goes to your SFTP; your translator maps it once. Suppliers who already send you EDI carry on as they are. There is no per-customer variant to maintain, and no network fee from us.

What suppliers need

A phone, a printer and a free number.

Any printer, the phone in their pocket, and a DUNS number, which is free. No subscription, no app, no scanner. Every screen says what to do next, in short words.

Verified despatch is new in autumn 2026 and is on the demo site in full. It has not yet been in daily use at a customer's goods-in.

See it with your own supply base.

A demo takes forty minutes. Bring a real supplier problem and we will walk it from the concern to the closed 8D, and show you the order book as your suppliers would see it.