This document aims to provide instructions and step by step guide to onboard shippers to specific Digital Freight Marketplaces (DFMs) as well as Carrier APIs as an alternative to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
On the shipper side, logistics teams are challenged in finding capacity with their existing carriers, or otherwise seeking alternative carriers on a spot basis. They want to be able to access this additional capacity as quickly as possible, without a lengthy carrier onboarding process. At the same time, shippers are seeking digital rates, booking, tracking, and electronic documents. If they are leveraging DFMs, the shippers’ primary market option is to visit each one individually.
Key features available through the DFM Integrations:
Self Serve Onboarding on DFM Platforms
Rating (See Instant Rates)
Booking (Book shipments within Shipwell Platform)
Tracking (Receive tracking updates within Shipwell Platform)
Documents
Invoice**
Carrier Configuration
Ensure that the carrier is listed on their carrier management page to enable rating & dispatching to this carrier. If the carrier is not listed, the carrier can be added or imported via the management page.
Note that it is important the carrier listed (Amazon, Uber, etc.) for the customer contains the correct SCAC code for that carrier because the SCAC code is used to match for dispatching purposes.
SCAC codes used with DFM/Carrier-API
Amazon Freight = USDOT: 2881058, AZNS
Uber Freight = USDOT: 2926893, UFLB
Enable the Integration
All of the available DFM/Carrier-API Integrations will be available on the Integrations page within the Shipwell Platform.
Here we will have the list of all DFMs that are available for the shippers to connect to. As each of these DFMs has different authentication and onboarding procedure, we will list out all the specific processes below:
Uber Freight
Login to the Shipwell platform and navigate to the Integrations Page
Select Uber Freight and hit “Connect“
Once you hit “Connect“ you will be asked to provide the Uber Freight Customer ID
Once you input the “Customer ID“, hit “Connect Account“
Once connected you will see a success message as below:
In case you do not have your “Customer ID“, please follow the URL from Step 3
Amazon Freight
Login to the Shipwell platform and navigate to the Integrations Page
Select Amazon Freight from the list and hit “Connect“
Once you hit “Login With Amazon“ you will be routed to Amazon Login Webpage
Input the login credentials if available, you will also be able to create a new account or retrieve the forgotten login credentials from this page
Once connected, you will see the below webpage
Display Rates
Once the carriers are successfully connected, from the Shipment Details screen, click on the Rates tab. The system will automatically get rates for any FTL carriers that have been configured, and will display the rates on the screen. Click Select to choose a carrier and rate to perform the dispatch automatically.