Cerasis Connect Services
Cerasis Connect Services provides two powerful ways to help our customers lower cost and improve their efficiency when shipping. Cerasis Integration provides a connection between your internal servers and the Cerasis Web Application. Cerasis Web Services allows customers to create custom application to use the Cerasis TMS rating and shipping engines.
Cerasis Integration
Cerasis Integration provides a link between your existing ERP system and the Cerasis processing screens. Working with your I.T. staff, we can help design a solution that will pull order information from almost any system including:
- Address Information
- Commdity Information
- Shipment Specific Information
Cerasis can also write fulfillment and accounting information back to your ERP after the shipment is complete. This process provides accurate inventory levels and helps accounting bill more accurately.
Brief Overview
To use Cerasis Integration, our I.T. works closely with your I.T. to program a communication path between your existing ERP system and our web based TMS system. Once the link has been built, information is loaded onto the screen by entering a reference number to the order and pressing a Load Order button. That’s it! The order information is now on the screen and ready for rating or shipping.
Cerasis XML Web Services
With Cerasis XML Web Services, customers can interface directly with our TMS system to perform most of the common tasks related to shipping. Built with flexibility in mind, customers can use some or all of the available features which include:
- Rating LTL Shipments
- Processing LTL Shipments
- Voiding LTL Shipments
- Tracking LTL Shipments
- Requesting Accessorials
Cerasis XML Web Services were designed to connect to multiple systems as well. Currently, the XML Web Services support SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 protocols as well as a true HTTP Post of an XML data feed. This allows customers to interface from almost any system.
Brief Overview
To use web services, customers would send the Cerasis TMS system an XML data feed. This feed could be generated from internal servers or captured from a screen you create. During the rating process, our system returns all the rates, Limit of Liability information, transit days, etc. When a shipment is processed, our system returns the Bill of Lading embedding in the response or by email to the provided email address.
Web Service Uses
- Rating/Shipping from custom built application
- Retrieve shipping costs for use on E-commerce site
- Providing shipping costs with online store
- Allow customers to track shipments