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AIMS plus

Assurety Integrated Mailing Solution

AIMSplus™ empowers commercial mailers, shippers, Parcel & Post organizations and streamlines the flow of mailing data; supporting both DTAC Mail.dat and Mail.XML eDoc standards.  AIMSplus™ is the latest update in the evolution of Assurety’s centralized, web-based, enterprise-grade parcel and post mailing, and shipping software solution AIMS; which has been around since the year 2006. AIMSplus™, designed to integrate with PostalOne!® FAST®, Seamless Acceptance, IV (Informed Visibility®) and ID (Informed Delivery®) platforms and API’s to enable greater automation.

Learn why very small MSPs (Mail Service Providers) to very large enterprises such as RR Donnelley, LSC Communications, USPS, Nationwide Insurance use AIMSplus™

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Scalability, Speed, Easy to Use, No More Desktop Management

AIMSplus™  lowers your post-presort licensing and operational support costs by allowing a single install for the enterprise and enabling consolidation of specialized roles and resources.

Maximize the value of your Full Service, Informed Visibility, Informed Delivery, and operational data. AIMSplus™  integrates seamlessly with BI and analytics platforms, harnessing the power of MicroStrategy, Power BI, and Tableau to optimize every aspect of your mailing operation.

Engineered to scale thousands of mailing jobs per day. Entailing billions of pieces per year, AIMSplus™  is used by the USPS to mimic large mailings for production quality control, and by very large to very small mailers to optimize their presorts, and simplify their USPS processes and compliance.

Integrated Analytics and Business Intelligence

AIMSplus™ APIs integrate USPS communication processes with your internal systems, allowing proactive management of your mailers’ USPS compliance Seamless Acceptance, eInduction, Full-Service, Move-Update scorecard report. Quickly addresses Full-service and Seamless Acceptance errors to avoid financial penalties. Dashboards, scorecards, and reporting will help you correct quality control issues and cut operational and transportation costs.

Assurety’s deep postal & parcel logistics experience and expertise have created a user-friendly interface on top of a scalable enterprise-level software solution for commercial mailers, shippers, parcel & post-delivery organizations allowing resources to learn and operate the software with less up-front training.

In 2006, Assurety was the first software vendor to develop service-oriented architecture (SOA), automating business-to-business transaction processes for the postal logistics industry, automating dock management for mail induction at plants. Integrate your TMS (transportation management system) with the Mail.XML-based ShipmentAssurety™, an AIMSplus™ module. This software saved hundreds of thousands of dollars of cost by removing the manual FAST appointment management in commercial mailing, consolidation, and logistics environments. The software also automates distance and stop calculations for truck stops for each entry and optimizes it.

USPS Integration

  • Full and enhanced Mail.dat® editing to merge jobs across plants, split jobs, manage permits, containers, pieces, and barcodes; manage spoilage, and more
  • Complete PostalOne! integration including postage receipts reporting
  • Complete palletization, entry planning, postage assessment support.
  • Convert mailings into PMOD (Priority Mail Open and Distribute) for time sensitive delivery.
  • Complete Seamless Acceptance automated compliance and troubleshooting support.
  • Complete automation of Informed Delivery version and piece level campaigns
  • Comprehensive support for commingling and co-palletization operations
  • Ability to troubleshoot Undocumented Full-Service and Seamless Acceptance errors across plants
  • XML automation capabilities to make appointments with the FAST system
  • Ability to track your Mail, Parcels, and Vehicles
  • Calculate postage and asses your costs and create quick quotes
  • 360⁰ analytics and insights into your customers, mailings across plants, marketing campaign management, A/B testing, operational sortation and transportation, and delivery routing optimization and much more

International Parcel and Post Delivery organizations (UPU® members get special discounts):

  • Create a centralized data store of all collection and acceptance data
  • Perform compliance checks on the mail and parcel data
  • Perform postage calculations and product and service management
  • Containerize your mail and parcels for optimal transportation and nesting tracking
  • Perform Entry Planning for faster processing
  • Optimize Transportation planning
  • Optimize Carrier Route planning
  • Track and Trace their vehicles and products and proactively manage KPI performance and identify bottlenecks to improve service quality
  • Analyze and receive insights into your customers, operations, transportation, delivery and cut costs and improve profits while developing new products from CRM, and marketing insights provided by the Analytics module in AIMSplus™
  • Our expert consulting and integration services will enhance your capabilities for e-commerce readiness and improve Service Delivery

AIMSplus™ Configurations

AIMSplus™ is a modular plug-n-play platform that has three configurations.

  1. AIMSplus™ Express – provides basic functionality to smaller mailers, one plant comminglers, and short list and presort houses at an affordable price in addition to the ability to scale and add functionality as you grow.
  2. AIMSplus™ Professional – provides extensive functionality and analytics to optimize the mailing operation of mid-sized and larger mailers and shippers.
  3. AIMSplus™ Enterprise – provides large, multi-site mailers with logistics operations the ability to manage and optimize mailing operations from a central location.

Each configuration of AIMSplus™ works with all the other specialized components available under the AIMSplus™ platform that are listed below; except for AnalyticsAssurety™ that only works with the Professional & Enterprise version of AIMSplus™.

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What our customers are saying who switched to AIMSPlus™

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Kim Brennan, Director Postal Logistics & Data Services at Firebird Presort talks about AIMSplus™ by Assurety Consulting in conversation with Rex Bull.

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Carroll Schiley, Director at IWCO talks about AIMSplus™ by Assurety Consulting in conversation with Rex Bull.

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Jerry Lammons, COO at Royal Alliances, speaks on his experiences with Assurety’s products and services.

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Prescott Marston, Data Analyst, speaks on his experiences with Assurety’s products and services.

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Alex Miller, a Mailing Specialist at Little Mountain Printing, speaks on his experiences with Assurety’s products and services.

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James Casteel, Operations Manager at AccessMail, speaks on his experiences with Assurety’s products and services.

USPS Integration

  • Full and enhanced Mail.dat® editing to merge jobs across plants, split jobs, manage permits, containers, pieces, and barcodes; manage spoilage, and more
  • Complete PostalOne! integration including postage receipts reporting
  • Complete palletization, entry planning, postage assessment support.
  • Convert mailings into PMOD (Priority Mail Open and Distribute) for time sensitive delivery.
  • Complete Seamless Acceptance automated compliance and troubleshooting support.
  • Complete automation of Informed Delivery version and piece level campaigns
  • Comprehensive support for commingling and co-palletization operations
  • Ability to troubleshoot Undocumented Full-Service and Seamless Acceptance errors across plants
  • XML automation capabilities to make appointments with the FAST system
  • Ability to track your Mail, Parcels, and Vehicles
  • Calculate postage and asses your costs and create quick quotes
  • 360⁰ analytics and insights into your customers, mailings across plants, marketing campaign management, A/B testing, operational sortation and transportation, and delivery routing optimization and much more

International Parcel and Post Delivery organizations (UPU® members get special discounts):

  • Create a centralized data store of all collection and acceptance data
  • Perform compliance checks on the mail and parcel data
  • Perform postage calculations and product and service management
  • Containerize your mail and parcels for optimal transportation and nesting tracking
  • Perform Entry Planning for faster processing
  • Optimize Transportation planning
  • Optimize Carrier Route planning
  • Track and Trace their vehicles and products and proactively manage KPI performance and identify bottlenecks to improve service quality
  • Analyze and receive insights into your customers, operations, transportation, delivery and cut costs and improve profits while developing new products from CRM, and marketing insights provided by the Analytics module in AIMS plus™
  • Our expert consulting and integration services will enhance your capabilities for e-commerce readiness and improve Service Delivery

AIMS plus™ Configurations

AIMS plus™ is a modular plug-n-play platform that has three configurations.

  1. AIMS plus™ Express – provides basic functionality to smaller mailers, one plant comminglers, and short list and presort houses at an affordable price in addition to the ability to scale and add functionality as you grow.
  2. AIMS plus™ Professional – provides extensive functionality and analytics to optimize the mailing operation of mid-sized and larger mailers and shippers.
  3. AIMS plus™ Enterprise – provides large, multi-site mailers with logistics operations the ability to manage and optimize mailing operations from a central location.

Each configuration of AIMS plus™ works with all the other specialized components available under the AIMS plus™ platform that are listed below; except for AnalyticsAssurety™ that only works with the Professional & Enterprise version of AIMS plus™.

Components

Industry’s flagship Mail.dat® editor: eDoc management for the Intelligent Mail platform, Informed Delivery Campaigns, complete PostalOne! integration. APIs available for integration.
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Industry’s flagship Mail.dat® web-based Editor. eDoc management for the Intelligent Mail platform, Full-Service, Seamless Acceptance, Informed Delivery Campaigns, complete PostalOne!® integration. APIs are available for integration. For International Parcel & Posts, it’s the primary datastore for collection, acceptance, and compliance data on which the delivery organization can perform post-presort optimization functions.

Seamless Assurety

Mail.dat are validated for Seamless Acceptance based on Mail Class, Shape, Full-Service, Move-Update, eInduction, and Seamless Acceptance rules and regulations.

Business Intelligence (BI) to connect, review, configure and analyze mailing processes to help expand your optimization initiatives. Insights into your customers’ spend by product and the ability to forecast future spend. Identification of quality issues by plant. Revenue assurance and fraud insights.
Pallet Assurety

Merge presorts and palletize/re-palletize, containerize to increase volume, and save on postage & transportation costs.

Inform DAssurety

The program offers a great opportunity to the mailers to supplement these digital (email) notifications to the subscribers with additional colorful images of the mail or related content with a clickable link and advertisement image to enhance the subscriber’s engagement and experience.

Entry Assurety

Assess and identify AS-IS entry plans and utilize EntryAssurety™ to provide a cost analysis of origin entry verses drop-shipment costs. And choose from one of the options that best suit your service and cost goals. Update the planning data and generate container labels-based on the new entry plan. International Parcel, Post, Courier, and Express can use the module to optimize their entry panning focused on costs and service performance goals.

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Proactively manage your postage costs and develop quick ROMS and quotes for your customers or in-house mailing operations or internal financial reporting.

Shipment Assurety

First Mail.XML-based solution to automate USPS FAST appointments for mailers and transporters, developed in the year 2006. Transportation planning, fuel, transportation, and postage cost optimization, linear footage management of the TL and LTL trucks and much more. APIs are available for integration.

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With Assurety’s post-presort integrated software solution, AIMSplus™, you can easily manage your PMOD mailings by marking your palletized or non-palletized containers for PMOD handing, generate Labels for PMOD marked container as well as barcodes and postage calculations for PMOD trays and sacks.

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Custom API development, responsive customization support is available. Already many APIs are available for integration and are in production use.

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AI-TrainingAssurety™ offers real-time, in-depth user support directly within the AIMSplus™ interface. Maximize efficiency, enhance productivity, and improve accuracy with the seamless integration of AI-powered assistance.

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As a USPS contractor, Assurety defined B2B solutions for the mailing and shipping supply chain, and for the following USPS system functionalities: • Definition and development of solutions for Full-Service Intelligent Mail including: Full-Service ACS, Mail Tracking, Informed Visibility data reporting and communications, Rules for mail preparations, classification and verifications, MID/GRID creation, management and communication functionality, Qualification reports, Postage Statements, FAST appointment scheduling Content Management and B2B transactional functionality MicroStrategy OLAP reports design, Surface Visibility functionality; and The SASP (Seamless Acceptance) system.