Shipment booking with chosen carriers

Purpose

1. Automate shipment booking with chosen carriers for lighting products wholesalers to streamline logistics, reduce manual workload, enhance accuracy, and accelerate order fulfillment.

2. Automating the carrier selection, shipment scheduling, document generation, status notifications, and integration with inventory and e-commerce systems for optimal supply chain efficiency in lighting distribution.

3. Enable real-time automated carrier rate comparison, selection, and booking based on product type, customer priority, destination, and delivery speed requirements.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automated order creation in ERP or online store.

2. Automated inventory threshold or stock release event.

3. Automated cart checkout or invoice payment confirmation.

4. Automated predefined time-based batch shipment windows.

Platform Variants

1. ShipStation

- Feature/Setting: Automated order import and carrier selection; configure webhook to trigger booking API on new order.

2. Easyship

- Feature/Setting: Automate shipping rules to select carrier via “Automation Rules”; API: /shipments/create.

3. UPS (United Parcel Service)

- Feature/Setting: Automated shipping API; Endpoint: /ship/v1/shipments for booking.

4. FedEx

- Feature/Setting: Automated Ship Manager API; Service: createShipment.

5. DHL Express

- Feature/Setting: MyDHL API Booking; Endpoint: /shipments.

6. USPS Web Tools

- Feature/Setting: Automated Shipping API; API: Delivery Confirmation Label API.

7. Royal Mail API

- Feature/Setting: Shipping API “createShipment”; integrate for auto-booking.

8. Sendcloud

- Feature/Setting: Automated shipping automation rules and bulk label API.

9. Shippo

- Feature/Setting: Automated shipment bookings via /shipments endpoint.

10. AfterShip

- Feature/Setting: Automated booking through order tracking trigger → booking API.

11. Freightos

- Feature/Setting: Automate ocean/air/road freight booking via API: /bookings.

12. Amazon Shipping

- Feature/Setting: Automated booking through SP-API “createShipment”.

13. Shopify Shipping

- Feature/Setting: Automate shipment creation event; API: /admin/api/2023-01/orders/{order_id}/fulfillments.json.

14. WooCommerce

- Feature/Setting: Automated order completed trigger; extension API integration for booking.

15. Magento

- Feature/Setting: Automate carrier assignment in shipping module; hook into shipment API.

16. Odoo

- Feature/Setting: Automated scheduled action after sales order; configure shipping carrier API.

17. Oracle NetSuite

- Feature/Setting: SuiteScript automation to trigger carrier API.

18. SAP Logistics Business Network

- Feature/Setting: Automate shipment creation via Freight Collaboration API.

19. Kuebix

- Feature/Setting: Automate spot quote and booking via Kuebix API.

20. Descartes

- Feature/Setting: Automate multi-carrier bookings via Descartes Ship API.

Benefits

1. Automates shipment scheduling, reducing manual effort and error rates.

2. Accelerates logistics workflows by automating repetitive tasks.

3. Enhances real-time visibility by automating status updates.

4. Enables automatable integrations with inventory and sales data for comprehensive logistics automation.

5. Reduces costs and delivery times through automated multi-carrier rate optimization.

6. Ensures automated compliance with shipping documentation and carrier requirements.

7. Supports business scalability by automating high-volume shipment operations.