How Shipping Integrates with Transportation and Trade Management Systems

Oracle Shipping provides seamless integration with any transportation management or trade management solution.

When you integrate Shipping with a:

Transportation management system, you can schedule and optimize shipments, and tender shipments to carriers.
Trade management system, you can ensure compliance by properly screening transactions and managing legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements for cross-border transactions.

Shipping integration with transportation and trade management process flow

Explanation of callouts:

1. Order managers can send order lines to a transportation management system for planning. After the order lines are planned, the transportation details are sent back to Shipping for further processing.

2. Order managers can perform compliance screening directly from both Oracle Fusion Cloud Order Management and Shipping. Order managers can request compliance screening for order lines, and shipping users can check trade compliance for shipment lines.

The following subsections provide more detailed information about how Shipping integrates with Order Management, transportation management, and trade management systems.

Shipping Integration with Order Management

Order Management and the Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management suite of products (Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Management) work together to fulfill orders that your users enter directly in Order Management or that you import from some other source.

You can integrate Order Management with a transportation management system so that it sends sales orders to that system for transportation planning, and to receive updates at fulfillment milestones, such as plan completion or proof of delivery. For more information about Order Management integration with a transportation management system, see the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Order Management guide.

Shipping Integration with Transportation Management Systems

Integrating Shipping with a transportation management system enables your order managers to send order lines to that system for planning. After your order lines are planned, the transportation details are sent back to Shipping for further processing.

Some of the advantages of this integration include:

Shipping automatically receives transportation planning details, such as transportation shipment information, shipping method details, and shipping dates.

Warehouse personnel can perform actions on shipment lines collectively based on the associated transportation shipment.

The transportation management system is automatically notified of backordered quantities.

Shipping communicates the final shipment information to the transportation management system, which helps in the generation of more accurate shipping documents.

Third-party logistics (3PL) applications and warehouse management systems (WMS) can integrate directly with transportation management systems, and Shipping communicates directly with the 3PL application and WMS.

For more information about transportation management, see the Oracle Fusion Cloud Logistics documentation available on the Oracle Help Center.

Shipping Integration with Trade Management Systems

Integrating Shipping with a trade management system enables order managers to perform compliance screening directly from Order Management and Shipping. Order managers can request compliance screening for order lines, and shipping users can check trade compliance for shipment lines.

Some of the advantages of this integration include:

Shipping users can request shipment lines to be screened at a stage that's appropriate to your business. For example, shipping users can request compliance screening when the lines are staged automatically, or manually before the material is shipped.

Warehouse personnel can perform actions on shipment lines collectively based on your compliance screening needs.

The trade management system is automatically notified of backordered quantities.

You can communicate the final shipment information to the trade management system, which helps in releasing any licenses withheld and generating export documentation.

Third-party logistics (3PL) applications and warehouse management systems (WMS) can integrate directly with a trade management system, and Shipping communicates directly with the 3PL application and WMS.