Mastering ShipIT 365: A practical guide

ShipIT 365

Mastering ShipIT 365: A practical guide

Required attendees ShipIT 365 implementation sessions with idyn

The ideal implementation team is as follows:

  • Manager Logistics

  • Warehouse Manager

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central functional person (internal/external)

  • (IT person)

The external Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central functional person is usually someone who is employed by an idyn partner and has done several ShipIT implementations and takes the idyn training courses on them.

See main manual page on this: Your Ideal ShipIT 365 Implementation Team

Pre project activities for implementing ShipIT 365 with idyn or your Microsoft Partner

Installation

ShipIT 365 (https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-US/product/dynamics-365-business-central/PUBID.idynbv%7CAID.shipit%7CPAPPID.9e0ee02b-484d-4487-8d74-961ece2357c0?tab=Overview )

Download will also install:

  • Idyn App Management

  • PrintIT 365

Check on Production and set in Sandbox for all idyn apps Allow HttpClient Requests is set to True/On

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When Tasklet Factory Mobile WMS is used with Pack&Ship module an extra app from idyn must be downloaded:

Credentials

Make sure all needed credentials are available:

  • Idyn ShipIT license key, provided by idyn Sales Dept.

  • Carrier Provider logins:

o   nShift Transsmart: portal login, Production and Test User Name and Password

o   nShift Ship: portal login, Actor(s), Client ID and Secret, Data ID and Secret

o   EasyPost: portal login, Production API key, Test API key

o   Cargoson: portal login Production and Test, Production Token, Test Token

o   DeliveryMatch: portal login, Client Id, Production API Key, Test API Key 

  • PrintNode: API Key (printing with EasyPost and Cargoson), the API key can be created by creating a PrintNode account.

Carrier Provider data

Make sure used carriers and carrier services are available and know what they are used for.

nShift Ship attention points:

  1. ClientID created on portal must have the nShift Ship Portal API in the scope.

  2. Goods Types must be defined for all carriers in nShift Ship.

  3. Shipping Rules are not supported by ShipIT 365.

Carrier Printer software

All carrier providers use different software for label printing and printing other documents, this software needs to be downloaded and installed correctly.

  • nShift Transsmart: SmartPrint, connected to User Setup in nShift Transsmart Provider Setup

o   Please ask your nShift consultant to set-up your printers together with your IT department

  • nShift Ship: DropZone, connected to User Setup in nShift Ship Provider Setup

o   Please ask your nShift consultant to set-up your printers together with your IT department

  • EasyPost: PrintNode with PrintIT printers and users in EasyPost Provider Setup

o   Set-up your printers together with your IT department

  • Cargoson: PrintNode with PrintIT printers and users in Cargoson Provider Setup 

o Set-up your printers together with your IT department

  • Sendcloud: PrintNode with PrintIT printers and users in Sendcloud Provider Setup 

o Set-up your printers together with your IT department

  • DeliveryMatch: DeliveryMatch PrintNode printers and users in DeliveryMatch Provider Setup 

o Please ask you DeliveryMatch consultant to set-up your printers together with your IT department

Note: printer settings and testing can be done after the first implementation session with idyn

Business Central Master Data

ShipIT 365 needs standard data from Business Central to create Transport Orders and Book them to the connected carrier services.

Copying data

Copying companies with data within environments or from Production to Sandbox or other way around can cause issues, as we store sensitive data like passwords, secrets and tokens in isolated storage, as the isolated storage is set to a company.

Shipment Methods

Will be linked to International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Incoterms as carriers use those Incoterms.

In US mainly Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is used.

Shipping Agents and Shipping Agent Services

Will be mapped to carriers and their booking profiles that are synced from the carrier provider portal.

Make sure users understand the used codes.

Company Information Card

  • EORI Number (Foreign Trade)

Location Card

  • Country/Region Code

  • Post Code

  • Address (not Address2)

  • City

  • Phone No.

  • Contact person

  • E-mail address

Customer Card (B2B and B2C (when consumer is set as customer in BC))

  • Country/Region Code and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Post Code and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Address (not Address2) and/or via ship-to addresses (not Address2)

  • City and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Phone No. and/or via contact and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Email and/or via contact and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Location Code and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Shipment Method and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Shipping Agent and/or via ship-to addresses

  • Shipping Agent Service and/or via ship-to addresses

Customer data to Sales Order (Generic web consumer as Custom Address in Sales Order)

Needs to come from webshop correct into Sales Order with a Custom Address in Business Central. All fields are mandatory.

  • Name (Consumer name)

  • Country/Region Code

  • Post Code

  • Address (not Address2)

  • City

  • Phone No.

  • Email

  • Location Code

  • Shipment Method

  • Shipping Agent*

  • Shipping Agent Service*

*Webshop options on services should be linked to the services in Business Central which makes sure the sales order goes to the correct carrier service/booking profile.

Item Card

  • Gross Weight

  • Nett Weight

  • Tariff No. (Foreign Trade)

  • Country/Region of Origin Code (Foreign Trade)

Go-Live “Golden Shipment”

Before the Go-Live a Golden Shipment or Shipments must be made in Production with multiple carriers to make sure that all works as tested.

ShipIT 365 additions

Additional Reference fields in the Transport Order

The Transport Order contains up to 15 additional reference fields, which are Non-Business Central fields, and can be used to send extra information to a carrier, like instructions or service point ID (parcel locker/machine ID).

Contact your Microsoft partner to create a per tenant extension to add data in the additional reference section of the Transport Order automatically.

When entered manually in a Transport Order no action is required.

Always check with you carrier provider that fields can be mapped or are mapped correctly.

See main manual page on this: Adding Additional References to the Transport Order

Beyond our core offer

  • Sales Order Lines with different Locations on Sales Order Line level in one Sales Order

  • Multiple e-mail addresses in one field (email1:email2)

  • Address2 usage is not supported for street and house number, they need to be in address. Address2 is part of the request messages, it can be used for other address information, like: Building 5

See main manual page on this: Mastering ShipIT 365: A practical guide

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