Overview
Voyager is a freight management system (FMS) which supports the booking and shipment planning of Road shipments between the UK and NI/Europe.
Processes
Bookings are sent into the system.
Shipments are created based on the bookings and priced using rate cards.
Bookings are closed once the shipment has been delivered or the booking has been cancelled.
Relevant notifications are sent to inform the different parties of the progress of the booking.
Use Cases
Voyager is only being used by a company called Knauf.
Bookings are sent in XML format from Knauf SAP to Voyager when required.
No UI exists for sending or editing information; everything is done by API calls from Knauf’s SAP system.
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System Flow
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Organisation Roles
Organisation Roles
Organisations are a critical and central part of the overall system, defining the various parties involved in freight movement & management activities, and internal SEKO organisations, branches and departments.
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Role Type | Concept |
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EXTERNAL ENTITY | Purely a legal entity, for external parties |
INTERNAL ENTITY | Purely a legal entity, for the SEKO organisational parent entities |
CARRIER | A basic carrier of goods |
HAULIER | Another kind of carrier covering line-haul, the transmission of goods over longer distances |
PARTNER AGENT | For example, another freight forwarding agent that SEKO receives goods from, or provide goods to, at a handover point |
CLEARING AGENT | A party responsible for carrying out all tasks relating to import or export clearance |
CONSIGNOR | The party of record, that is responsible for sending the goods at the beginning of the shipment process |
CONSIGNEE | The party of record, that is responsible for receiving the goods at the end of the shipment process |
SHIPPER | The party that is requesting the shipment. In many cases this is the same as the consignor |
RECEIVER | The party that is receiving the shipment. In many cases this is the same as the consignee, but in the case of Knauf UK the receiver party will be the client of Knauf UK that originally ordered the goods, but the Consignee of record will be the Knauf Sales Office that acts for that receiver. |
PORT | The organisation that owns / runs an international port |
INTERNAL BRANCH | An internal SEKO business entity or branch |
INTERNAL DEPARTMENT | An internal SEKO department e.g. Manchester Road Exports |
EXTERNAL DEPARTMENT | An external department, if it is necessary to distinguish at a lower functional level than the external party roles stated above |
Locations
Locations exist within Organisations. Each Location can be given one or more ‘capabilities’, which describes what that location is used for within the end-to-end shipment flows.
Capability Type | Concept |
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COLLECTION POINT | Goods collection point for this location. Typically this is a source factory which produces the goods |
DELIVERY POINT | A point where Goods are finally dropped at the end of the shipment. This is typically a warehouse of the Consignee or of the client of the shipper / consignor |
OFFICE | The registered office of an organisation. This is typically needed for formal documentation requiring this location to be stated |
PORT | The address of a Port. This typically will be associated with an Organisation that has the role of “Port”, perhaps a port authority or port owner |
FREIGHT STATION | An interim location that handles preparation of goods, such as loading loose goods into containers ready for international transit, and/or for the consolidation of goods from multiple shipments into single container consolidations |
CONTAINER YARD | Another interim location, where containers may be held prior to the international / port-to-port transit |
APIs
Inbound: /wiki/spaces/SSTD/pages/2359955994 /wiki/spaces/SSTD/pages/2409988144
Outbound: /wiki/spaces/SSTD/pages/2359955566 /wiki/spaces/SSTD/pages/2359957898
Shipment Instructions
One shipment results in one supplier instruction, which for Road-based shipments is one carrier trucking company responsible for picking up the goods at a Knauf factory in the UK, transporting across to Ireland or mainland Europe and delivering to final destination.
Rate Cards
Rate Cards are not subject to frequent change and are loaded up using Postman using a CSV file.
Resources
/wiki/spaces/SSTD/pages/2359955723
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