Parcel carrier adapters technical details

You can integrate parcel carriers as a part of the manifesting process within a node.

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

Sterling™ Order Management System Software integrates with carriers in the following scenarios:

Opening a manifest for a carrier
Adding containers to an open manifest
Removing containers from an open manifest
Closing a manifest

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 Order Management System Software carrier integration as listed (above) to the application layer. For example, in Sterling Order Management System Software, 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.