GS1 pallet label and dispatch advice message
Where we want to be
Where we are now
• Dry goods materials are counted
on material and batch level
during goods receiving and
updated to Altia Warehouse
Management System (WMS)
• Pallet labels are printed and
attached to all pallets in goods
receiving
• Traceability on material batch
level
• Supplier attaches unique GS1
pallet label for every pallet
• Suppliers send dispatch advice
message including pallet SSCC,
quantities and batches to Altia
WMS.
• Pallets are created in Altia WMS
according to received message
• Supplier GS1 pallet labels are
used for warehousing
• Traceability on a pallet level from
supplier to customer
• Reduced leadtime due to faster
receiving process
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GS1 pallet label

• Needed information
• SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code)
• Count (Quantity)
• Content (EAN/GTIN)
• Production Date
• Batch/Lot

• Pallet needs to be marked on short and long side

according to GS1 standard

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Process picture
Process picture

Goods are
dispatched
Supplier

Dispatch Advice is
generated and sent
to Altia

Dispatch advice is Goods are consumed in production.

read in by Altia Goods are received Automated traceability log for
Goods are unloaded at
Altia

WMS, pallets are utilizing suppliers pallet suppliers sscc, Altia material number,
Rajamäki Warehouse
added to purchase labels and dispatch advice supplier batch, supplier production
order date

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Dispatch Advice Message contents
Xml-format
• Purchase order and/or waybill number

• Pallet
• SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code)
• Contents (EAN/GTIN or Altia material number)
• Batch
• Production date
• Qty
• Pallet 2
• SSCC (Serial Shipping Container Code)
• Content(EAN/GTIN tai Altia material number)
• Batch
• Production date
• Qty
• Pallet 3…

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Technical details

• Message is POSTed as webservice call to Altia’s integration platform

• Full WSDL and message schema:

• Vendor specific user ID and password will be generated by Altia and delivered to
vendor
• Authentication handled as HTTP basic authentication
• HTTP Response codes:
• 200 = OK, message was received
• 4xx = Error, either in authentication or in url
• 5xx = Error, in message content (or temporary error in Altia’s platform)
• All other response codes than 200 means that message has not been received by Altia and
must be resent

• Urls for connection:

• Test: https://eaiq.altiacorporation.com/Fidaware/DispatchAdvice
• Prod: https://eaip.altiacorporation.com/Fidaware/DispatchAdvice

• Vendor specific source IP addresses need to be whitelisted on Altia side before test /
production url can be accessed → vendor needs to provide

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