As a shipper, you can use dock appointment scheduling APIs in SAP Business Network Freight Collaboration to book dock appointments for a loading point on behalf of the carrier for loading or unloading services in the docking locations of your organization.

Using the dock appointment scheduling APIs, you can create, update, or cancel various dock appointment scheduling and gate processes.

You can perform the following activities using the APIs for dock appointment scheduling:

• You can use the Provider API for Location Replication to replicate location master data in SAP Business Network for Logistics.

• You can use the Provider API for Dock Appointment Scheduling to create dock appointment requests and confirmed dock appointments in your SAP Business Network for Logistics.

• You can use the Provider API for Dock Appointment Cancellation to cancel the dock appointments in your SAP Business Network for Logistics.

• You can use the Consumer API for Dock Appointment Scheduling to update your external systems with the appointment details.

• You can use the Provider API to Manage Gate Operations to update the gate logbook details in your SAP Business Network for Logistics.

• You can use the Consumer API to Manage Gate Operations to update your external systems with the check-in and checkout details provided by SAP Business Network for Logistics.