aid: automated-sorting-systems name: Automated Sorting Systems description: >- Automated Sorting Systems covers the technology landscape of automated conveyance, sortation, and parcel routing systems used in logistics, warehousing, e-commerce fulfillment, and postal distribution. Key vendors include Dematic, Vanderlande, BEUMER Group, Swisslog, Honeywell Intelligrated, and Solystic. These systems integrate with warehouse management systems (WMS), warehouse control systems (WCS), and ERP platforms via APIs and EDI to orchestrate high-speed package sorting. type: Index image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Automation - Conveyor Systems - Distribution - E-Commerce Fulfillment - Logistics - Package Tracking - Parcel Sorting - Sorting - Warehouse - Warehouse Automation url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/automated-sorting-systems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-04-19' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: automated-sorting-systems:dematic-api name: Dematic Warehouse Management API description: >- Dematic provides warehouse management and sortation control software with REST APIs for integrating automated sorting systems with ERP, TMS, and order management systems. Their iQ software platform exposes real-time order, inventory, and conveyor status data. humanURL: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/products/technologies/software/ tags: - Warehouse Management - Sortation Control - Real-Time Tracking - ERP Integration properties: - type: Website url: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/products/technologies/software/ - type: Documentation url: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/products/technologies/software/warehouse-management-systems/ - aid: automated-sorting-systems:honeywell-intelligrated-api name: Honeywell Intelligrated Momentum WMS API description: >- Honeywell Intelligrated offers the Momentum warehouse management system with APIs for real-time conveyor and sortation control, order fulfillment orchestration, labor management, and integration with ERP systems. Momentum WCS provides the control layer for sortation equipment. humanURL: https://sps.honeywell.com/us/en/products/productivity/warehouse-automation tags: - Warehouse Control - Sortation - WMS - WCS properties: - type: Website url: https://sps.honeywell.com/us/en/products/productivity/warehouse-automation - aid: automated-sorting-systems:vanderlande-api name: Vanderlande FLEET WMS API description: >- Vanderlande's FLEET warehouse management software provides APIs and interfaces for controlling automated sorting systems in baggage handling, parcel logistics, and warehouse automation. It integrates with third-party WMS, ERP, and parcel carrier systems. humanURL: https://www.vanderlande.com/software-and-services/fleet/ tags: - Baggage Handling - Parcel Logistics - WMS - Sortation properties: - type: Website url: https://www.vanderlande.com/software-and-services/fleet/ - aid: automated-sorting-systems:beumer-api name: BEUMER Group Sortation API description: >- BEUMER Group provides sortation systems for airports, parcel, and distribution centers with software integration capabilities via standard industrial protocols (OPC-UA, PLC interfaces) and higher-level WMS/WCS REST APIs for order management and throughput monitoring. humanURL: https://www.beumer.com/en/industries/logistics/ tags: - Airport Logistics - Parcel Sorting - Industrial Integration - OPC-UA properties: - type: Website url: https://www.beumer.com/en/industries/logistics/ common: - type: Features data: - name: Real-Time Package Tracking description: >- APIs that expose real-time location and status of packages moving through sorter lanes, divert points, and conveyor segments. - name: Sortation Configuration description: >- Programmatic configuration of sort destinations, divert rules, and routing logic for automated sorters via WCS APIs. - name: Throughput Monitoring description: >- Real-time and historical throughput metrics from sortation lines including items per hour, jam rates, and divert accuracy. - name: Order Management Integration description: >- Integration with order management systems to trigger sortation tasks based on pick-and-pass workflows and order release events. - name: Exception Handling description: >- Automated exception reporting for unknown barcodes, mis-sorts, and conveyor faults via event-driven API callbacks. - type: UseCases data: - name: E-Commerce Fulfillment description: >- High-speed sortation of outbound orders in e-commerce fulfillment centers with API-driven carrier assignment and label printing. - name: Parcel Distribution description: >- Cross-dock parcel sortation at postal and carrier distribution hubs with real-time barcode scanning and routing. - name: Airport Baggage Handling description: >- Automated baggage sortation in airports with flight-based routing rules and late-bag divert capabilities via WCS APIs. - name: Intralogistics Automation description: >- Internal warehouse sortation for order picking, replenishment, and returns processing integrated with WMS systems. - type: Integrations data: - name: Warehouse Management Systems description: >- Standard integrations between sortation WCS and leading WMS platforms including SAP EWM, Manhattan Associates, Blue Yonder, and Oracle WMS. - name: ERP Systems description: >- Order and inventory data integration with SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems to drive sortation rules. - name: Parcel Carrier APIs description: >- Integration with UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS carrier APIs for label generation and manifest creation at sortation endpoints. - name: Barcode and RFID Scanning description: >- Integration with Zebra, Honeywell, and SICK scanning hardware for real-time package identification feeding sortation routing decisions. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com