Infor Nexus

Infor Nexus is a cloud-based supply chain management and trade network that connects buyers, suppliers, carriers, and financial partners on a single platform for order, shipment, and trade-finance visibility. This connector ingests records from the Infor Nexus Data Mesh Export API (Data API v3.1), pulling named datasets and native supply chain objects such as orders, shipments, invoices, and milestones into Nexla. Exports can run in Full mode for a complete snapshot or Incremental mode to capture only changes.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Infor Nexus API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Infor Nexus connector is purpose-built for Infor Nexus, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Infor Nexus or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Infor Nexus workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating an Infor Nexus credential, you need the connection details for your Infor Nexus platform instance and the credentials used to sign requests to the Data Mesh Export API. Infor Nexus uses hash-based message authentication (HMAC): each request is signed with an Access Key ID and Secret Key, and identified by a Data API Key and a DAPI agent User ID.

To obtain your Infor Nexus API credentials, follow these steps:

1. Contact your Infor Nexus administrator (or Infor support) to request Data API access for your organization. API access is provisioned per organization and tied to a designated DAPI agent user.

2. Obtain your Access Key ID and Secret Key. These form the HMAC key pair used to sign each API request. The Secret Key is sensitive and should be stored securely.

3. Obtain your organization-level Data API Key. This key identifies your organization to the Data API and is required alongside the HMAC signature.

4. Obtain the User ID of the DAPI agent user that requests will be issued on behalf of.

5. Confirm the Base URL of your Infor Nexus platform instance. This is the host used to construct the export request URLs (for example, https://{your-instance}/rest/3.1/analytics/dataset/{dataset}/export).

6. Store all of these values securely, as you will need them to configure your Nexla credential.

For detailed information about API authentication, HMAC request signing, and available data objects, refer to the Infor Nexus Developer Network.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes	Infor Nexus Data API Key (organization-level).
Base URL	Yes	No	Base URL of your Infor Nexus platform instance.
User ID	Yes	No	The DAPI agent user ID for the Infor Nexus API.
Access Key ID	Yes	Yes	Client access key ID used to sign requests (HMAC).
Secret Key	Yes	Yes	Secret key used for HMAC request signing.

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your Infor Nexus Data API Key in the API Key field, and the base URL of your Infor Nexus platform instance in the Base URL field.

4. Enter the DAPI agent User ID, the Access Key ID, and the Secret Key used to sign requests. The API Key, Access Key ID, and Secret Key are sensitive values and must be kept confidential.

   If any of these credentials are compromised, contact your Infor Nexus administrator to rotate the affected keys, and update the credential in Nexla with the new values.

   For detailed information about API authentication, HMAC request signing, and available data objects, see the Infor Nexus Developer Network.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Infor Nexus connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Infor Nexus instance, and click Next; or, create a new Infor Nexus credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Infor Nexus Data Mesh export endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Export Dataset

Export records from a named Infor Nexus Data Mesh dataset (Full or Incremental mode).

• Specify the Dataset Name of the Data Mesh export dataset to retrieve, exactly as configured in Infor Nexus.
• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete dataset export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Order Detail

Export purchase order line-item and header records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Shipping Order

Export shipping order records for outbound/inbound shipments.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Transport Shipment

Export transport shipment execution records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Bill Of Lading

Export bill of lading documents for ocean/air freight.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Invoice Detail

Export commercial invoice line-item and header records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Carrier Booking Request

Export carrier booking request records for transport planning.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Packing List Detail

Export packing list line-item detail records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Location

Export master data locations (ports, warehouses, facilities).

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Party

Export master data trading-partner party records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Partner Master

Export partner master records for trading-partner relationships.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Milestone Detail

Export milestone event records tracked against shipments/orders.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Traceability Item

Export item-level traceability records.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Export Payment Authorization Detail

Export payment authorization records for freight/trade finance.

• Set the Streaming Mode to Full for a complete export, or Incremental to retrieve only changes since the previous run. The default is Full.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Infor Nexus data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Infor Nexus Data API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Infor Nexus data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.