Web Services

Customers can connect their in-house systems to the GT Nexus Network in two ways:

1. Data Services: Power internal systems with supply chain data from GT Nexus

   Customers get access to global supply chain data the GT Nexus Network gathers on their behalf. Data Services enables successful deployments of in-house applications by outsourcing the complex global partner integration and data standardization tasks to GT Nexus. Data Services can be event based or schedule-based. And data can be pushed to customers or pulled (triggered) by customer systems. GT Nexus supports multiple data exchange formats, including EDI (ANSI or EDIFACT), XML or any other well-defined format. The transport protocol can be FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, AS2 or using traditional VANs.

   Data Services can be used, for example, to distribute purchase order data, collect shipment manifest data, receive shipment event data, customs data, supply chain cost data, invoice data.

2. Web Services: Access GT Nexus functionality from internal systems

   GT Nexus is an industry utility that was built for the Web and a network model which means customer in-house systems can be tapped directly into the platform. All the required functionality is exposed via Web Services making GT Nexus applications and the network "callable" from any outside solution, independent of programming languages or operating systems. Customers can also use Web Services to embed relevant pieces of GT Nexus functionality into an Intranet portal or internal application. The APIs required to access the various functionality is published using WSDL. Requests are made using HTTPS and data is sent back as XML using SOAP binding.

   Examples of Web Services include application functions like Contract and Rate search, Rating request, Sailing Schedule search, Shipment Status inquiry, Order Status inquiry, Booking Submission, Document submission and Invoice Status inquiry.