How to Create a Carrier Account with PEP Transport (FTP)

When looking to set up a new account with PEP Transport you will need to contact their customer service department and advise them that you are looking to despatch your account through MachShip. This team can be contacted at accounts@peptransport.com.au or manny.pool@peptransport.com.au. Please cc integrations@machship.com in your email.

Hi Support Team, 

I need to set up my account <insert account code> with PEP Transport so that I may consign with my new FMS partner MachShip. Can you please advise what my consignment note prefix should be?

Could you also please provide me with an FTP username and password for MachShip to send through my EDI Files.

Once the PEP Transport team responds then we need to fill out the specific options. 

These are:

Account Code - The account code will have been provided to you when your account was set up

FTP Username- This will be provided in the email above

FTP Password - This will be provided in the email above

Consignment Prefix - The consignment prefix would have been provided to you in the email above

Reference Pools - Reference pools are utilised by MachShip in order to maintain a count on connote, manifest, and item numbers. The reference pool will ensure that each of those numbers is unique to what we have sent to the carrier previously. More information can be obtained on reference pools here. PEP Transport requires the creation of 3 reference pools, for the Manifest, Item, and Connote numbers.

To create the reference pool select the Create Carrier Reference Pool button at the bottom of the page. 

Pool Name - Set as PEP Transport Manifest Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Available Reference -  1
Cyclical - No

and

Pool Name - Set as PEP Transport Connote Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Available Reference -  1
Cyclical - No

and

Pool Name - Set as PEP Transport Item Pool <Account Code> 
Minimum Value - 1
Maximum Value - 999999 (that is six 9's)
Next Available Reference -  1
Cyclical - No

It will appear as below:  

Once created it will appear in the drop-down as below:

Should you already be trading on an existing account please set the next available field as 1000 consignments higher than the highest connote number on your previous account. 

TEST:

Once the account has been set up and all of the rates have been added, you will need to run a test to ensure that upon go-live, everything will run successfully. To do this, create a consignment - please make Reference 1 and Reference 2 and the delivery special instructions THIS IS A TEST. Once this has been created please manifest the consignment to the carrier. If you experience any issues please contact support@machship.com.

If you receive a successful manifest message from MachShip then please send an email to accounts@peptransport.com.au or dan.roth@peptransport.com.au and advise them that you are starting to despatch your PEP Transport account through MachShip and that you would like to receive verification on the test file and permission to start to trade. Please include the label pdf's for the manifest, connote, and the items.


Advise the support team of the connote number and request that they should cancel this to ensure that you are not charged. Please cc integrations@machship.com on this email so we can help if required. 

On confirmation from the support team that the setup is validated, you are free to begin to consign.