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OVERVIEW AND BENEFITS‍‍

With the increasing demand for e-commerce delivery of prescription drugs, glasses, and other sensitive or personalized products where order fulfillment and delivery requires 100% accuracy every time, it is more critical than ever for suppliers to have the right equipment to process, ship and track these orders both correctly and efficiently.

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Fluence Automation offers an affordable, practical solution for pharmaceutical and other direct-to-consumer business operations where order fulfillment accuracy is paramount. Our Precision Small Parcel (PSP) Sorter was developed to provide a fast, efficient, highly developed tracking-and-reporting solution for sorting small parcels of any shape and size where high-accuracy requirements must be met with every order, such as with mail-order prescriptions.

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PRECISION MAILPIECE TRACKING AND CERTIFICATION

The Precision Small Parcel (PSP) Sorter from Fluence Automation uses dimensioning, weighing, scanning, imaging and precision tracking technologies to accommodate any processing requirements for small parcels. Our new quality exception handling software and hardware ensures 100% order fulfillment accuracy requirements are met.

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HIGH-END SORTING CAPABILITY IN SMALL FOOTPRINT

Our PSP Sorter has been designed to enable the highest degree of flexibility and customization, which allows us to fit a full system in even the tightest of facility spaces.

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MAIL COURIER, DELIVERY AND SHIPPING DISCOUNTS

Depending on your business needs and how you ship your products, we offer a number of flexible software options for finding the best couriers, rates, and discounts:

• Our USPS®-certified rate software for all mail, flat and parcel classes with complete USPS compliancy
• Rate-shopping software to research the best rates and couriers for each item
• An easy, customizable interface for your existing rate software

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INDUSTRY-LEADING SERVICE

• One of the widest and most well-run nationwide service networks available today
• Local service supported by specialized remote support
• Extensive experience maintaining 24/7 production equipment
• Protects investment and maximizes performance

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EASY WORKFLOW & PROCESS MANAGEMENT

STEP 1- LOAD MAIL

• Mail is loaded to ergonomic workstation

STEP 2- DATA ACQUISITION & RATE SHOP

• PSP Sorter will scan, weigh, dimension, verify to WMS, and rate shop

STEP 3- SYSTEM PROCESSING

• Shipping (or other) labels will be applied. Product is tracked.

STEP 4- SORTING

• Product is sorted to your containers, with confirmation and logic tracking. Any exception is identified for reprocessing.

STEP 5- RE-WORK

• An available workstation is available for re-work as needed.

STEP 6- SECOND PASS (as applicable for two-pass sorting)

• If you are sorting to high-sort address destinations, our software will walk you through the workflow process.

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DASHBOARD, REPORTS AND ADMIN FUNCTIONS

Our sort manager package provides all necessary sorting controls to manage your sorting operation, track productivity, create 100% verification reports, and communicate to your customers. The admin dashboard includes an interface to communicate with all unique customers within your existing system.

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OPTIONAL FEATURES

High-speed Inline Labeler

• Apply customized labels to products
• Capable of high-speed label printing and application

LFT

• Upgrade to LFT as needed for your operation's requirements

OCR/BCR Software

• Utilize our full-service OCR/BCR for address reading and correction
• Enables text and symbol verification

Additional Efficiency Upgrades

• Automated packaging
• Process optimization
• Integrated flow control

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