We're excited to announce enhancements to the carrier profile page within the Shipwell platform! These updates provide a more organized view of carrier information and introduce a refreshed Analytics tab for data-driven carrier insights.

Enhanced Carrier Profiles

New Analytics Tab

These updates lay the groundwork for future advancements in carrier management. Stay tuned for the upcoming introduction of carrier credential management and onboarding functionalities within the carrier profile.

We’ve updated the workflow status to be more descriptive of what is currently happening with the step in the workflow. For example with a tender, you will see:

Examples shown below:

If there is an error with the workflow you will see why that step failed and marked with a warning. In this example, the carrier’s insurance coverage amount limit was not enough for the tender to occur and that step was skipped.

Charge Codes and Standardized Reference Data

We're excited to announce a significant update to Shipwell's charge codes and reference data, designed to empower you with greater efficiency, consistency, and flexibility in managing your transportation costs across new modes like ocean, drayage, and air freight but enhance existing modes such as Intermodal, Rail, LTL, FTL, and Parcel.

Introducing a Robust Charge Code Standard

Shipwell is now introducing a comprehensive version of the charge code standard which will be updated quarterly. The current version of the standard is v3 and it was created in 2024Q1. This enhanced standard offers several key benefits:

Accessing the New Charge Code Standard

The charge code standard is available at {{evironmentBaseUrl}}/reference-data/charge-codes/ (where {{environmentBaseUrl}} is a URL like https://sandbox-api.shipwell.com, https://api.shipwell.com, etc.). This easy-to-access location for charge codes empowers you to explore the available codes, understand their meanings, and incorporate them into your shipping processes. The endpoint has standard searching, filtering, pagination and performance consistent with Shipwell's v3 API standard. The response below shows an example response:

Shipwell's charge code standard will be used to map charge line items from carriers connected via EDI, AP, and via Shipwell's portal. Additionally, any new carrier EDI connection will use this EDI standard. The following diagram provides an example of an accessorial received by an API-connected carrier that maps to Shipwell's standard and provides consistent invoicing and settlement.

Analytics reports such as accessorials, costing, and additional charge line item derived reporting will have expanded granularity and filtering.

Simplifying Your Shipping Management

By leveraging Shipwell's enhanced charge codes and standardized reference data, you can expect to:

We've improved the address book user experience to allow the input of Latitude and Longitude from the top-level versus manually inputting an address. You will now see the exact location and the associated latitude and longitude.

Additionally, we've added the PICKUP_APPOINTMENT accessorial to the address book so that when quoting, this will correctly pull back as part of the rating/tendering process. The figure below shows the pickup accessorial added to the Accessorials input field.

Added Charge Codes Standard and capability: See above for details on powerful new charge codes standard and reference data.

Added Power unit to Data Share/Builder User

Increased number of rows that can be shown in a table, e.g. Shipment’s List, and downloadable as a report to 5k, can not be increased any more. Just the table can be up to 100k rows.

Identified issue where Looker queries were using Fivetran Warehouse causing data transfers to be blocked