SAP Web Services Archives

Massive Inevitable Changes For E-Tailer Shipping

By Blue Harbors on December 11, 2012

Thanks to Gray Thursday, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, online retail (“E-tail”) sales have hit record highs in the US this holiday season. FedEx is expecting to ship a record 19 Million packages today alone (12/10/12). UPS has predicted that they will ship over 527 million packages in the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, as compared to 480 million packages total in 2011. The increase in shipping volume is shocking, and it’s only going up.

So what’s the impact? Both carriers and E-tailers are beginning to realize that, if they intend on maintaining the same levels of customer satisfaction and quality control as shipping volumes increase, the current partnership dynamic will be changing in a big way.

Blue Harbor’s New SAP Cloud Shipping Solution Highlights

By Blue Harbors on June 22, 2012

We are currently building a cloud-based SAP shipping solution. Here’s Matt Langford’s quick overview of the upcoming solution: The SAP Cloud Shipping Solution is similar to our existing SAP Express Ship Solution, except the web service mapping is hosted and maintained by Blue Harbors “in the cloud”. This eliminates the need to do any mapping […]

ABAP Code For Sending XML Messages via HTTP / HTTPS

By Blue Harbors on June 11, 2012

The following ABAP function module source code is for a generic HTTP client. It allows you to send XML messages in any format via HTTP/HTTPS, with just a few mapping table entries. Blue Harbors uses this client with Express Ship Cloud Solution.