Overview of Integration With FT

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Last updated: Jan 11, 2024 by Kulpreet Kaur
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Enterprise Integration with Freight Tiger

A holistic approach to integration is essential to achieving business agility. This involves integrating your existing applications and data with Freight Tiger

 

 

Automation

  • Create and maintain trips, indents, etc when an event is integrated in your SAP or other legacy ERPs

  • Get call backs to receive data from FT on predefined events in FT

Transparency

  • Get realtime trip visibility by integrating with GPS providers and Telcos

  • Monitor and control indents and trips

Analytics

  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators on FT dashboards and reports

  • Include non-trip business data like invoices, sales orders, delivery orders into our logistics reports

 

 

 

 

 

 

An effective integration architecture prevents manual rework, allows products to be brought to market faster, and supports data-driven decision-making.

 

 

Visionary IT organisations are discovering that application integration and data integration are better together.

 

 

 

 

 

Integrating with FT is Easy

Your engineers can read our online documents specially written to help integration. They can test APIs on integration test environment, get sample payloads from our online documents and start calling FT APIs.

 

 

 

Get Professional Support from FT Integration Team

Should you chose to get professional engineering support, our engineers' holistic integration approach incorporates our past experience of integrating many businesses like yours to FT Platform. Our engineers help you quickly unlock the integrations to deliver maximum FT value to your business. They accelerate the speed of integration, lower your total cost for integration, and reduce the complexity of the process.

 

 

 

What Can You Integrate With

 

Indent

  • Create and Update Indents

Trips

  • Create and maintain trips

  • Get automatic callbacks to your application

  • GPS service providers to get geo-location data

  • Send any custom data for trip analytics

ePOD and Freight Invoicing

  • Get notified on pod submissions

  • Automate freight invoicing and payments

 

 

We have done these integrations (and more) so you don’t have to!

 

 

 

 

Freight Tiger Adapter for SAP

 

We offer Freight Tiger Adapter for SAP with which you can quickly plug-in Freight Tiger into your existing SAP landscape. The current features includes:

  • Trip Visibility module

  • Automatic Master data sync between SAP and FT

It has been developed to speedup the SAP integration process for standard SAP implementations.

 

 

 

 

Freight Tiger Integration Landscape

ERP and Transport Management Systems can integrate to manage trips and indents using APIs and webhooks.

User notifications are sent on emails, SMS, WhatsApp, etc for trip alerts, trip milestones and a variety of events.

Over 50+ GPS providers and telcos are integrated from which we get location information for vehicles.

WhatsApp integration: As a consignee or a consigner, I can check trip status by messaging to a WhastApp bot.

 

 

 

Primary techniques to integrate with Freight Tiger

 

 

 

Modes of Integration

 

API based Integration

Secured FTP

 

API based Integration

Secured FTP

Calls to Freight Tiger

FT APIs

Only for Trips (Create, Close)

Event driven callbacks from Freight Tiger

FT Webhooks

Custom Development required

Software components interaction arranged in time sequence

Freight Tiger has following key software modules:

  1. Indent

  2. Trip

  3. Analytics

  4. ePOD

Each of these components exposes APIs and web-hooks that can used to communicate with FT Platform. Following diagram explains a high level interaction model between your applications and FT Platform. Read this diagram top to bottom to understand the sequence of steps. Check the detailed APIs documents to know about what fields ate passed at what stage.

 

Note: This diagram is for illustration purpose only. The actual 3rd party components, sequence of steps and data passed could slightly vary based on use cases.

 

Most Common Integration Use Cases

 

Following are the most common use cases for integration with Freight Tiger:

 

 

 

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