Currently, when we ship an order, we print 3 copies of the pack slip, each having different subreport.
1 - Customer copy
2 - Shipper copy
3 - Internal copy.
The last copy, the shipper needs to sign before leaving.
We are getting more demand to send these via e-mail. We are looking into capturing the shipper signature via an electronic device. The intent would be to save on any printing as well.
As anyone done this I am sure, I wanted to have some insights about how it would work, how it is saved in the database or is it an image file? how is it implemented on the report?
In our shipping docs, we have embedded images of each shipping employee’s signature in the ssrs report, then we set the hidden property of each image to hide unless their User ID matches the one the image is assigned too.
When I mentionned shipper, it was the truck driver of the shipping company. They need to sign our copy as proof of pick up. So we are looking for a signature pad device, and my question was about how to integrate it with Epicor…
Epicor Mobile Warehouse (EMWW) has a Proof of Delivery function where you sign on a tablet and it creates an attachment on the pack slip. Just starting playing with it yesterday.
I think EMWW has a lite version which is only POD. I will play this more next week.
I implemented something similar a couple of years ago, through a web app and a QR code. Shipper would scan the QR code, it would bring him to the web app, where he would be presented with PDF copy of the document, and a small legal section saying I hereby sign yadda yadda, with a textbox for the shipper to enter his full name.
On the server side, I would take the PDF, and generate an electronic signature using the website’s SSL certificate, the shipper’s IP address, date and time, and his manually filled text box. Once signed, a PDF document can no longer be modified, and you can use the electronic signature to verify it hasn’t been tampered with. The signed PDF would be sent back to the shipper and archived on the server. In the context of Epicor, you could add the PDF as an attachment to the shipment transaction.