Logistics & ShippingPurpose
1.2. Automatedly reduce manual entry, achieve real-time status updates, streamline audit trails, and support inventory reconciliation by automating data collection, validation, and ERP posting.
1.3. Automate POD discrepancies flagging, delivery confirmation for finance, and automating shipping-compliance processes, ensuring faster invoicing and fewer customer disputes.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Carrier system generates digital POD (e-signature, photo, scanned doc).
2.3. ERP receives delivery notification event but lacks corresponding POD.
2.4. Scheduled interval to poll shipping carrier APIs for new POD.
2.5. Arrival of specific file format (PDF, JPEG, CSV) in a configured cloud folder.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: BAPI_DELIVERYPROCESSING_EXEC/IDoc integration for automated delivery update.
3.2. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk REST/SOAP API to automate POD record posting.
3.3. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Data Entities; automate import via OData or connector.
3.4. Infor M3
• Feature/Setting: M3 API Toolkit, automate proof-of-delivery upload to shipment module.
3.5. Epicor ERP
• Feature/Setting: REST API; automate update of receipt, delivery status.
3.6. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Custom Apex/Flow with REST triggers for automated updating of delivered records.
3.7. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: IntegrationHub automates creation of receipt records.
3.8. IBM Sterling Supply Chain
• Feature/Setting: Shipment API, automate shipment status updating.
3.9. Coupa
• Feature/Setting: Open API for automated proof-of-delivery receipt creation.
3.10. JDA (Blue Yonder)
• Feature/Setting: Luminate Control Tower APIs, automate event ingestion for PoD.
3.11. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: DI API, automate proof-of-delivery data sync to logistics module.
3.12. Odoo
• Feature/Setting: Automated via XML-RPC/REST API, import delivery receipts.
3.13. Zoho Creator
• Feature/Setting: Zoho API, automate form creation and data injection.
3.14. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks/API automates proof-of-delivery updates into transactions.
3.15. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks, automate POD notifications to the team.
3.16. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Cloud Function triggers automated parsing and ERP posting.
3.17. AWS Lambda
• Feature/Setting: Automatedly parses incoming emails/attachments, updates ERP via API call.
3.18. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: Automates end-to-end POD capture and ERP integration using connectors.
3.19. MuleSoft
• Feature/Setting: Automate data transformation and secure ERP integration using flows.
3.20. Boomi
• Feature/Setting: Automates end-to-end business process integration, updates ERP with proof-of-delivery.
3.21. Dropbox
• Feature/Setting: Configure webhook on folder upload, automate file pickup for proof-of-delivery.
3.22. FedEx Web Services
• Feature/Setting: Track API, automates retrieval of proof-of-delivery details.
3.23. UPS Developer Kit
• Feature/Setting: Proof of Delivery API, automate downloading POD documents.
3.24. DHL XML API
• Feature/Setting: Proof of Delivery Status call, automate pulling POD info.
3.25. Google Workspace
• Feature/Setting: Automate Gmail and Google Drive file/event triggers for proof-of-delivery flow.
Benefits
4.2. Automatedly increases accuracy and traceability, making post-delivery reconciliation automatable.
4.3. Automates downstream processes (billing, claims, audits) by validating delivery status in real-time.
4.4. Automates compliance, ensuring POD retention and retrieval are seamless and search-automated.
4.5. Reduces administrative workload; automating integration maximizes workforce focus on exception handling over routine data uploads.
4.6. End-to-end automation ensures zero human error and supports a scalable digital logistics operation.