Order Processing and Fulfillment AutomationPurpose
1.2. Enables hands-off creation and dispatch of formatted carrier labels (FedEx, UPS, DHL) with custom information like UN codes, serials, customer references, and hazardous material declarations.
1.3. Integrates inventory, ERP, and CRM data to append customer-specific, regulatory, and logistics metadata to the shipping documentation.
1.4. Ensures traceability for audits and compliance with defense sector shipping rules, providing workflow triggers and documentation to internal and external logistics teams.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual approval of sales order marked for fulfillment in an order processing dashboard.
2.3. Payment validation or credit vetting passed for specific customer account.
2.4. Regulatory export screening completion (for ITAR/EAR compliance checks).
2.5. Inventory pick ticket closed and item location assigned for shipment.
Platform Variants
• Label API: Configure “Create Label for Shipment” function via API Key with carrier and service mapping.
3.2. UPS Developer Kit
• Shipping API: Use /Ship endpoint with JSON schema for hazardous goods, tracking info, and customer reference injection.
3.3. FedEx Developer Portal
• Ship API: GenerateOneLabel Request with dangerous goods flag and product code for ammunition.
3.4. EasyPost
• Labels API: Call “Create Label” endpoint using SecureToken, with metadata for item serialization and compliance notes.
3.5. DHL Express XML Services
• Shipping API: “ShipmentRequest” node configuration using compliance subfields for ammunition types, export controls.
3.6. Stamps.com
• LabelServer SOAP: Configure “CreateIndicium” call for packages, specifying class code for restricted/controlled items.
3.7. Endicia
• Label Server API: “GetPostageLabel” function for parcel, including message fields for hazardous declarations.
3.8. USPS Web Tools
• eVS Label API: Automate “eVS CreateLabel” call with sender/recipient IDs and ammunition-specific details in reference data.
3.9. Zoho Inventory
• Automation Rule: On order confirmed event, trigger “Generate Shipping Label” via carrier integrations.
3.10. SAP Business One
• SDK/DI API: Script event on sales order confirmation to call “Create Delivery” and trigger label printing.
3.11. Oracle NetSuite
• SuiteScript: Custom workflow to generate shipping labels using Record.create({type: ‘itemFulfillment’})
3.12. Shopify Plus
• Webhook: Order fulfillment status triggers “admin/shipping_labels/create” via Admin API.
3.13. WooCommerce
• REST API: Trigger shipping label plugins’ “generate_label” endpoint on order paid status.
3.14. Magento Commerce
• Order event observer triggers carrier module’s printLabel() API function with custom export and regulatory data fields.
3.15. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain
• Power Automate: On sales order workflow completion, trigger label generation via integrated carrier connectors.
3.16. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Cartridge/Job Step: “Order Confirmation” hook runs commerceapi.createShipmentLabel with per-package tracking code.
3.17. Orderhive
• Automation trigger for “Order Confirmed” launches carrier label plugin, calls “create label” with ammunition SKU flags.
3.18. Brightpearl
• Automation rule to execute “Shipping Label” function of chosen carrier module at invoice status change.
3.19. Linnworks
• Rule to auto-print shipping label through Linnworks Print Service “generateLabel” event on order status change.
3.20. Metapack
• Shipping API: Configure “CreateShipment” with commodity codes and compliance options under documentation schema.
Benefits
4.2. Accelerates speed from order confirmation to shipment handover, improving customer service and throughput.
4.3. Minimizes compliance risks by standardizing label data for hazardous/ammunition rules in all shipments.
4.4. Integrates fulfillment steps into a single automated pipeline, reducing human involvement and increasing traceability.
4.5. Supports rapid scaling with diverse carriers and rapid onboarding of new routes or order types.