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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 1, 2022

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.

What is your industry? Automotive
How will this idea be used?

We are able to notify the warehouse and the user to stop the next transmission and continue with a manual step to process these messages through the customer supplier portal. The customer is then able to receive the messages in a timely manner before the truck reaches their dock