Hello Everyone - I was wondering if anyone has FedX and/or UPS integrated with Epicor. We currently create labels on UPS or Fedx’s website but occasionally have an issue of a wrong address even though they are supposed to match the Epicor packing slip to the shipping document. How do you handle this?
Thanks for your help!
De Anna MIrzadegan
McNeal Enterprises, Inc.
We currently have UPS WorldShip installed and use the keyed-import option that imports the shipping address from an Epicor query and prints the labels. We are also looking into ShipStation for a larger integration project that handles most carriers and uses Epicor REST API to get the shipment data.
Epicor has a solution called Quickship that uses both of those services and it uses whatever is in Epicor as the address.
I don’t think it will solve the data validation/entry issue though.
Also, both UPS and FedEx web sites contain integration info…
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/developer.html
https://www.fedex.com/en-ca/resources-tools/api.html
https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/technology-support/worldship/integrate.page
https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/technology-integration/online-tools-shipping.page
We use Epicor’s Manifest program aka QuickShip. We ship thousands of packages per week.
We’ve had success working with Fedex and Fedex Integrator to pull information into Fedex Ship Manager. We’ve also worked with UPS to pull information from ERP 10 into UPS Worldship. We still use both of these in instances where we are shipping using 3rd party shipping accounts.
Otherwise, we are using Shipworks and it’s ODBC interface to pull data from ERP 10. We don’t use Shipworks for 3rd party shipping accounts because it doesn’t have the same capabilities for storing 3rd party accounts for re-use that the UPS and Fedex applications provide.
Shipworks works with UPS, Fedex, USPS and other carriers.
If pursuing any of these options, I would suggest that you create a stored procedure to call from these applications to get the data. Neither Fedex nor UPS queries can only be modified by Fedex/UPS support. By using a stored procedure that pulls the data, if schema changes I can modify the stored proc without having to involve Fedex or UPS as long as I still output the same data fields.
Thanks everyone, I am looking into Quickship, It is a bit more than I was expecting, there are a lot of required add ons but this is the direction I may go. We are on cloud and it wont be Cloud ready until approx summer. Right now it has to be installed on a server and workstation. The UPS worldwide integration sounds interesting too. I am going to look into this too.