Sending Freight Requests to the Third-Party Freight System
PeopleSoft sends messages (transaction requests) with sales order and delivery data to the external third-party freight system using the third-party freight EIPs (service operations) in the PeopleSoft Integration Broker. The following service operations are used to send data:
Inventory Freight Rate Request: This synchronous (two-way) service operation is used from the Order Entry Form and the Delivery Management Workbench to send a freight request transaction request and receive an immediate response from the third-party freight system.
Inventory Freight Request: This asynchronous (one-way) service operation is used by the Order Completion process, the Process Deliveries/Freight process, and the fulfillment engine shipping processes to send a freight request transaction request to the third-party system.
Inventory Freight Ship Request: This synchronous (two-way) service operation is used from the Delivery Management Workbench or the Shipping/Issue component to send a freight request message and receive an immediate response from the third-party freight system. In addition, this service operation enables you to request that the third-party freight system generate the manifest. The third-party freight system can be used to create, maintain, and print the shipping manifests. The response coming from the third-party system can send tracking numbers and label URL references to be stored in the PeopleSoft shipping history tables. This service operation can only be initiated for shipped deliveries.
See Enabling the PeopleSoft EIPs for Third-Party Freight.
Transaction requests can be sent to an external third-party freight system using the following PeopleSoft page and processes:
The Order Entry Form in PeopleSoft Order Management can launch the Inventory Freight Rate Request service operation. Using this online component, a user can request rate shopping, best way, or a specified carrier and receive an immediate response from the third-party freight system.
The Delivery Management Workbench in PeopleSoft Inventory can launch the Inventory Freight Rate Request service operation (for freighting only) or launch the Inventory Freight Ship Request service operation (for freighting and manifesting). Using this online component, a user can request rate shopping, best way, or a specified carrier and receive an immediate response from the third-party freight system.
The Order Completion process in PeopleSoft Order Management can launch the Inventory Freight Request service operation. This process can create deliveries by grouping sales order demand lines and then send the batch of deliveries to the third-party freight system. This process provides an efficient way to request freight for a large number of sales orders. You always generate a non-manifesting freight request when making this request from the Order Completion process.
The Process Deliveries/Freight process in the PeopleSoft Order Management menu can launch the Inventory Freight Request service operation. This process page enables you to create deliveries and then send the deliveries to the third-party freight system. You always generate a non-manifesting freight request when making this request from the Process Deliveries/Freight process within the Order Management menu.
The Process Deliveries/Freight process in the PeopleSoft Inventory menu can launch the Inventory Freight Request service operation. This process page enables you to create deliveries and then send the deliveries to the third-party freight system. When making a freight request from the Process Deliveries/Freight process within the Inventory menu, you can generate a manifesting or non-manifesting freight request based on the External Manifest check box on the process page.
The fulfillment engine shipping processes can launch the Inventory Freight Request service operation. These processes enable you to create deliveries and then send the deliveries to the third-party freight system. When making this request from the fulfillment engine shipping processes, you always generate a manifesting freight request.
The Shipping / Issues component in PeopleSoft Inventory can launch the Inventory Freight Ship Request service operation for freighting and manifesting. The Shipping / Issues component also provides a link to the Delivery Management Workbench.