Freight DKAS
openOPC sub‑product · email‑driven · freeze‑before‑send · audit replay
Freight DKAS is a major openOPC-Agent sub‑product: it turns “everything happens via email” ocean‑freight forwarding and customs workflows into a runnable, auditable system with explicit approval gates.
What it solves
- Email is the entry point: monitor customer / booking desk / trucking mailboxes and classify mail into business intents.
- Project grouping: consolidate mail and attachments into per‑project “file vault” with searchable history.
- Freeze‑before‑send: booking / manifest / VGM and other outbound messages are frozen, previewed, and only sent after approval; approved content is not rewritten.
- Auditable decisions: key decisions and trace IDs are linked; outbound deliverables can be replayed back to source attachments.
Main workflow
- Receive entrustment: detect entrustment emails and shipping instruction attachments; create a project and archive.
- Booking & pre‑booking: booking requests are sent; pre‑booking replies are forwarded to the customer with next‑step prompts.
- Collect customs docs: detect customs docs and container/seal lists; parse and validate fields.
- Generate manifest & VGM: produce artifacts with evidence, then enqueue as pending outbound.
- Approval & send: preview frozen content in the console and send only after approval.
Capabilities (acceptance‑ready)
| Classification | Entrustment / pre‑booking / customs docs / container list detection and workflow triggers. |
| File vault | Per‑project archiving of email and attachments; status overview & history. |
| Outbound gate | Recipients/subject/body/attachments are frozen and previewable; approve → send only. |
| Multi‑tenant | Isolated mailbox configs, LLM configs, approval & send records. |
| Privacy | Credentials stay in customer‑controlled secret storage; optional audit export. |
FAQ
Q: Why “freeze‑before‑send”?
Because outbound emails are deliverables. Freezing guarantees the previewed/approved content is exactly what gets sent and prevents post‑approval regeneration drift.
Q: Do we have to run in the cloud?
No. On‑prem and edge deployment options are supported; mailbox credentials are handled in customer‑controlled secret management.
Q: How does this relate to openOPC?
Freight DKAS is an openOPC runtime template: under the same Manager/Auditor/HITL/Gate governance semantics, it ships a ready‑to‑use freight/customs workflow.