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Make sure this step is part of your implementation plan.

Shippers – be nice to your carriers and use the Assign Codes app so they don’t have to deal with your custom codes.

All of our BN4L standard code lists can be found documented here, these codes are important for both shippers and their carriers who are building integrations. Detailed help documentation on how to use the Assign Codes app can be found here. Below you can see an example of mapping custom packaging material type codes to standard BN4L codes. Click the code type that you want to map. The app will open up and you will see a list of code types in the left hand pane. Login to your portal and find the Assign Codes tile and click it. The Assign Codes app is available to shippers in their BN4L portal. The Assign Codes app is the key to a successful and seamless carrier integration. With this App a Shipper can map their custom codes to BN4L defined standard codes. That is where the Assign Codes app which is available to in the BN4L Shipper Portal comes into play. Obviously a carrier would have a difficult time building a single integration for all shippers on the network if each shipper were sending them custom codes. SAP TM is highly configurable, each shipper could configure their own custom codes to represent things such as shipping types, unit of measures, packaging types, etc. Of course the above diagram doesn’t speak to nuances required to create such an integration. Expensive point to point integrations can become the thing of the past. A single integration that can support all connections to their customers on the network.

BN4L offers APIs for carriers who would like to build an integration to automate the flow of documents from the network to their own systems. By joining the network, a carrier can connect and transact with any shipper on the network. SAP Business Network for Logistics (BN4L) provides capabilities of freight tendering, subcontracting, settlement, tracking and dock appointment scheduling by connecting business partners in the network.