we interfaced UPS worldship and FEDEX ship manager to IFS to enter weights for small pack freight.but, each ‘application’ may require a different strategy. keep in mind my answer is for IFS2004 .. I’m sure there is a ‘better’ answer using the new IFS interface tools, but what we did is..we created a table in IFS database called ‘freight_interface’we loaded oracle client, with ODBC on the ‘freight’ computers UPS worldship, and FEDEX freight manager have an ‘interface’ function that allows ‘reading’ of order address and shipping terms, and ‘pushing back’ the freight charge and freight cost. the read happened directly through an ODBC connection we ‘pushed back’ the freight charge an cost (along with order details to our ‘freight interface’ table, which used an oracle insert ‘trigger’ (standard oracle function) to call the IFS API which updated the freight record in IFS. not a simple solution, but we processed hundreds of these transactions a day, in all of our small pack shipping lines,
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