Parcel carrier adapters technical details

IBM® Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation provides the ability to integrate parcel carriers as a part of the manifesting process within a node.

The Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation integrates with carriers when:

The carrier integration is built over an abstraction layer called the Parcel Carrier Adapters. This layer abstracts the integration details to various carriers from the applications. The Parcel Carrier Adapters expose internal APIs corresponding to the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation carrier integration as listed (above) to the application layer. For example, in the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation, the Parcel Carrier Adapters take a standardized XML, use configuration data specific to carriers to massage the data and pass data to the carriers using specific protocols.

The Parcel Carrier Adapters are preconfigured to integrate directly with AgileElite shipment server.

This chapter provides technical details of the Parcel Carrier Adapters. It contains descriptions and usage information for the Parcel Carrier Adapters tables, User Exits, and XML.