© The ATHENA Consortium. CI3 - Practices of Interoperability in SMEs Carrier-Shipper Scenario

2 © The ATHENA Consortium. Description The scenario describes the interaction between a shipper and a carrier when providing consuming logistical services. ShipperCarrier

3 © The ATHENA Consortium. Proprietary Systems Interfaces Proprietary carrier systems cause that: Either shippers limit to a small amount of providers with which they can automate the process. Or shippers select a carrier who meets the requirements best in each situation, whilst accepting manual processing.

4 © The ATHENA Consortium. Potential business benefits The solution shall enable: Compare offers from different carriers and find the most cost-efficient offering. Higher level of automation, which will lower the process costs.

5 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Sales Order Delivery Picking/Packing Shipment Invoice After Sales

6 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Sales Order A sales order contains information on ordered Goods, shipping address etc. and is the starting point for the process

7 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Delivery The Delivery is created from a Sales Order

8 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Picking/Packing From the Delivery the Picking and Packing Information is created. During this Phase quantities are confirmed

9 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Shipment From a Delivery a Shipment can be created. Several Deliveries can be aggregated to one shipment

10 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process Invoice After the goods are shipped, a commercial invoice for the customer is created. The shipper will be invoiced by the selected carrier and is therefore out of the scope of the shipping process

11 © The ATHENA Consortium. Shipper process After Sales During After Sales, Tasks related to eventual Return Management are done

12 © The ATHENA Consortium. Carrier process Calculate Rate Routing Code Generate Label Manifest

13 © The ATHENA Consortium. Carrier process Calculate Rate Rate calculation takes as input the selected service, the route and some more information on the parcel and calculates the rate for the shipment

14 © The ATHENA Consortium. Carrier process Routing Code The routing code is the carrier specific representation of the route over which a parcel is shipped. The routing code is calculated based on the ship-from address specifying the origin of the shipment and the ship-to-address specifying the destination

15 © The ATHENA Consortium. Carrier process Generate Label This service creates the label for the parcel in the carrier specific format. Therefore, input data such as the routing code and the ship-to-address is required

16 © The ATHENA Consortium. Carrier process Manifest In this service the current shipment is added to the manifest for this day. This can either mean that the notification is sent directly to the carrier or that the data is stored in the local system of a shipper so that it is available when the manifest is created

17 © The ATHENA Consortium. As-is situation The Shipping Process contains 3 phases: 1.Introduction and Setup 2.Running the Shipping solution 3.Update and Maintenance of the Shipping System

18 © The ATHENA Consortium. To-be situation An improved solution should fulfill: (Semi-) Automatic Integration of Carrier Services Data and Process Mapping User Interface Predefined and Easy Configurable Adapters Configuration

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