Is anyone getting delivery information from carriers and pulling in back into Epicor for use?
I am specifically looking to check our ‘Need By’ date against the actual delivery date from a carrier (UPS for example) based on tracking number.
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We are not doing this, but I suppose you could try to do that. UPS and FEDEX have an API.
Not sure what type of shipping you are doing, LTL, full truckload, parcel, etc.
I do want to try. I’m sure it can be done, just wondering if I have to invent the wheel. The world I came from was mostly eCommerce, where marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc do this work for you.
We have customers who ding us when things do not arrive on time, so I assume someone is paying attention, I would just rather take my own word for it.
Carrier metrics is something online marketplaces monitor closely. We are starting to pay much closer attention to our Ship By and Need By dates and I know this is going to come up sooner rather than later.
We use manifest (quick ship? who can remember anymore) I am not super familiar with it but I know it already interfaces with APIs like UPS, so maybe there is something there.
You’d have to ask that team. I am on the product advisory board, and I’ll try to bring this up the next meeting.
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