Best Practices for Carrier and Service Code Mappings setup [Information]

When setting up Sales and Fulfillment Channel connections, you can create and configure Carrier and Service Level Mappings.

These are done over what's called the Carrier Master Table (as detailed in How to map Carriers and Services in a Sales Channel [Step-by-step guide] and How to map Carriers and Services in a Fulfillment Channel [Step-by-step guide]) which indicates which codes are expected to be received from the Sales Channels, what techOMS will use in that case, and how it is defined in the Fulfillment Channel, defining an end-to-end information passage between systems.

This document provides an example and best practices.

NOTE: You can have all the Sales and Fulfillment Channels mapped to the same techOMS codes, funneling different variants into a single value.

The case to be analyzed is the following, as the warehouse:

• Is shipping Ground via 3 Carriers:
  • FedEx
  • UPS
  • USPS
• Is connected to 3 Sales Channels: 
  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • eBay
    
• Is connected to 2 Fulfillment Channels: 
  • Extensiv
  • Logiwa

Considering the case, this is how the Mappings would be configured:

	Sales Channel			techOMS			Fulfillment Channel
	Carrier Code	Service Code		Carrier Code	Service Code		Carrier Code	Service Code
Shopify	Standard Shipping			FedEx	Ground		FDEG		Extensiv
WooCommerce	FDEX	Ground					FEDEX	GRND	Logiwa
eBay	FDEG

This setup, starting from left to right, receives from the Sales Channels:

• Shopify
  • Carrier Code: Standard Shipping
  • Service Code: No value
• WooCommerce
  • Carrier Code: FDEX
  • Service Code: Ground
• eBay
  • Carrier Code: FDEG
  • Service Code: No value

This is possible, given that each Sales Channel could have different values configured, or even not support some.

Considering that, techOMS, will funnel and interpret these variants into two values:

• Carrier Code: FedEx
• Service Code: Ground

When the Fulfillment Channels handle FedEx and Ground, these will:

• Extensiv
  
  • Carrier Code: FDEG
  • Service Code: No value
• Logiwa
  • Carrier Code: FEDEX
  • Service Code: GRND

NOTE: You can set up Carrier and Service Codes in the Master List that you don't use at the moment as a pre-emptive setup, for example, if you're not using UPS yet, you could still configure a setup like this:

	Sales Channel			techOMS			Fulfillment Channel
	Carrier Code	Service Code		Carrier Code	Service Code		Carrier Code	Service Code
Shopify	UPSG			UPS	Ground		UPS	GND	Extensiv
WooCommerce	UPS	Ground							Logiwa
eBay	UPS

NOTE: If you have a single Fulfillment Channel, we recommend to set up your techOMS Carrier Master List matching your Fulfillment Channel ones (cloning). When doing so, won't require a conversion of terms and data between systems, and it will be much simpler to track and configure.