Pre-advice

Version: 2.0, Date: 2025-06-27

Revision history

Date	Version	Description
2025-02-21	1.0	Initial version.
2025-06-27	2.0	added View the Despatch-Advice API schema documentation

Purpose

Reserve trailer capacity at carriers for pallet shipments.

Integration touch points

State

• The endpoint will be available for testing latest 1-oct-2025.

Pre-advice request

payload

• The expected API documentation is available in the API documentation.

• SAP will request a pre-advice to Viya.

  • Information required:
    • SAP pre-advice reference
    • Carrier
    • Pickup address
    • Destination address (at least country, the more details the better)
    • Expected loadmeter
    • Expected pickup date/time
  • Information optional:
    • Expected delivery date/time
  • Alternatively users can enter pre-advice information in Viya, not requiring SAP to request the pre-advice.

• Viya will create the pre-advice and communicate it to the carrier in carrier desired format.

Pre-advice confirmation

• At some point the carrier will confirm(or decline) the pre-advice.
  • At confirmation a booking reference is included.
• Viya feeds the confirmed pre-advice information back to SAP
  • Alternatively this can be skipped in case no SAP integration is required. but upon despatch advice this booking reference or pre-advice reference is needed to link the pre-advice to the despatch advice.