Example of a carrier integration scenario

Descrip­tion of receiv­ing new goods trans­port pro­pos­als direct­ly from the client (ship­per, freight for­warder) along with price nego­ti­a­tions and their accep­tance.

Scenario

• The client (e.g. a freight for­warder or ship­per) pub­lish­es an offer (freight) direct­ly to a car­ri­er or a group of car­ri­ers,
• car­ri­er uses Trans.eu to receive new coop­er­a­tion pro­pos­als,
• car­ri­er active­ly uses Plat­form for freight man­age­ment,
• both freight for­warder and car­ri­ers have exist­ing and valid Trans.eu account,
• car­ri­er down­loads all freight coop­er­a­tion pro­pos­als from Trans.eu to exter­nal TMS,
• nego­ti­a­tion process is moved to exter­nal TMS,
• freight accep­tance is moved to exter­nal TMS,
• for accept­ed freight there is a trans­port order received.

Diagram

Authorize access

Before it is pos­si­ble to send any request, user needs to autho­rize access.

• client app was reg­is­tered using reg­is­tra­tion form
• exter­nal app was grant­ed api keys (client_id and client_secret)
• autho­riza­tion process has been imple­ment­ed in exter­nal app

Receive new freights

Each freight will con­sist of:

• array of car­ri­ers’ ids
• load­ing loca­tion and time
• unload­ing loca­tion and time
• required truck body type
• sum­ma­ry of freight’s loads weight
• ftl/ltl para­me­ter

Exam­ple pay­load can be found here.

Negotiate freight conditions

If freight pric­ing con­di­tions did not meet car­ri­ers expec­ta­tion, they  might be allowed to nego­ti­ate the price.

Each price nego­ti­a­tion offer con­sists of:

• price val­ue
• price cur­ren­cy
• iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of offer cre­ator
• ver­sion of offer
• date and time of offer cre­ation

Freight nego­ti­a­tion details can be found here.

Receive transport order

Accept­ed freight cre­ates trans­port order, which con­sists of:

• freight details (freight id, loca­tions, loads, require­ments, etc)
• car­ri­er details (address and VAT num­ber)
• freight for­warder details (address and VAT num­ber)
• dri­ver details
• vehi­cle details

For more details about trans­port orders please click here.