Streamline Notifications with Advanced Shipping Notice
TradeCentric’s Advanced Shipping Notice (ASN) solution enhances B2B transactions by providing an extra layer of visibility and credibility. It notifies buyers about the shipment status, including order details like order number, date, tracking number, shipment method, shipping address and included items.
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Why choose TradeCentric’s ASN solution?
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Reporting & Analytics
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Effortless
Integration
Access hundreds of pre-built connections for 75+ eCommerce systems and 220+ ERP/eProcurement solutions.
Onboarding &
Implementation Services
Our technology experts and integration specialists offer commerce and procurement expertise to meet your integration goals.
Benefits for suppliers
Our ASN solution provides transparency into shipped order information. ASNs can serve as a proxy for an order receipt to expedite payment. With support for various data protocols and all leading eProcurement solutions, TradeCentric ensures you can offer an eProcurement integration experience now and at scale as you grow.
- Provide enhanced order visibility for customers to better understand and track inventory in real time
- Position to grow revenue from existing customers and win new business by offering ASN
- When combined with PO and Invoice Automation, ASN facilities 3-way matching to support more efficient invoice reconciliation
Benefits for buyers
TradeCentric’s ASN solution offers crucial insights into shipments, ensuring smooth operations and production continuity, especially in relation to direct material spend.
- Ensure certainty of order shipment and arrival
- Improve inventory planning and supply chain transparency
- Leverage ASN in conjunction with PO and Invoice Automation to facilitate 3-way matching
What you can expect
Backed by more than a decade of integration experience and a deep understanding of best practices that drive project success, our clients can trust that we will meet – and exceed – their expectations.
Accountability
We’re your team the entire way from onboarding to customer success—no third party involved.
Cost Management
We control your IT expenses with a predictable, fixed rate for growing trading partner connections.
Integration Expertise
We’ve seen it all with 4,500+ businesses trading on our platform, and we bring that expertise to you.
Risk Reduction
We do everything we can to limit risk with application management, data security and availability.
“The TradeCentric team is incredibly nimble and creative in coming up with solutions for us… It’s such a high level of service and support. And that’s what really makes [them] such a great partner for us.”
Marketing and Commerce Director
“We partnered with TradeCentric because we wanted to work with the experts in this space that could provide a scalable solution for our customers.”
VP, Digital Selling & eCommerce
“With the help of TradeCentric, AutoZone can offer our full line of automotive aftermarket parts and accessories to customers on any procurement system.”
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Advanced Shipping Notice FAQs
Suppliers may need an advanced shipping notice solution when buyers require shipment updates inside their eProcurement or ERP system. This is common when buyers need better visibility into order status, receiving, inventory planning, or reconciliation. TradeCentric helps suppliers send structured shipment details to buyers as part of a more connected post-order workflow.
Yes. TradeCentric helps suppliers meet buyer ASN requirements by translating shipment information from supplier systems into the format required by the buyer’s eProcurement or ERP platform. This helps suppliers support buyer-specific shipment visibility needs without relying on manual updates or disconnected communication.
ASN integrates with buyer ERP and eProcurement systems by sending structured shipment data from the supplier to the buyer’s connected platform. TradeCentric helps manage the translation and delivery of that information so buyers can receive shipment details in the systems they already use to manage procurement, receiving, and reconciliation.
ASN fits after purchase order processing and before invoicing. Once an order is prepared for shipment or has shipped, an advanced shipping notice gives the buyer key shipment details before delivery. This helps extend the transaction workflow beyond order submission and gives buyers more visibility into what is arriving.
PO Automation helps suppliers receive purchase orders electronically, while Invoice Automation helps suppliers deliver invoice data back to buyers. ASN extends this workflow by sharing shipment information between those steps. Together, these solutions support a more complete procure-to-pay process with better order, shipment, and invoice visibility.
ASN reduces manual order status communication by sending shipment details directly into the buyer’s connected system. This helps procurement, receiving, customer service, and supply chain teams avoid repeated emails or calls about shipment timing, tracking, and included items.
ASN supports receiving and inventory planning by giving buyers advance notice of what is shipping and when it may arrive. This helps teams prepare receiving resources, update inventory expectations, and coordinate downstream processes before goods are delivered.
Yes. ASN can help reduce invoice and fulfillment discrepancies by giving buyers shipment details that can be compared against the purchase order and invoice. When buyers have clearer visibility into what was ordered, shipped, and billed, they can resolve issues faster and reduce manual reconciliation work.