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In my last role, I worked on integrating our in‑house order management system with a third‑party logistics provider to support same‑day delivery across 5 countries. We were moving about 30k orders per day, so data integrity and latency really mattered. I started by mapping the end‑to‑end process on a whiteboard with ops and engineering, then translated that into sequence diagrams and interface contracts. I owned the API requirement specs: request/response payloads, error codes, SLAs, and retry behavior. For data mapping, I created a detailed spreadsheet that mapped 120+ fields between our system and the 3PL API, including transformations, validation rules, and ownership of the source of truth. I also defined edge‑case scenarios (cancellations, split shipments, failed labels) as concrete examples in the specs. After go‑live, failed order transmissions dropped from ~4% in the pilot to under 0.3%, and we cut manual exception handling time in the warehouse by about 60%.
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