Shipment tracking

LEX (Logistic EXperience) is an interface between internal Michelin supply chain and authorized external logistic partners. The application is based on an event driven and micro-service architecture to propose a catalog with set of API for a specific functionality.

Shipment Tracking API brings visibility to employee and customer for Michelin inland deliveries by automatizing the access of tracking datas in real time. The API needs authentication from our identified partners, and allows them to send us tracking events on delivery to our Customers, by providing event data, anomaly information, document Url ...

Events sent to Michelin system are integrated through one API endpoint and thanks to a standard message format and communication language, such as the INOVERT norm. The message structure has been designed to meet all track & trace needs:

• A shipment tracking message is related to only 1 event at a time, while the API request body can have multiple messages (array of shipment tracking messages)
• The event is identified by a code, a type and a business reference number,
• A document url, is required for some events to meet legal constraints.
• Other free text attributes, free to use of the situation is relevant.

• Moreover, several objects are expected in order to enrich the message as much as possible :

   

  1. 'Ship from' and 'ship to' information
  2. Carrier information
  3. List of Delivery Notes
  4. Sender information