| # Carriers by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfrc0160m000) Use this session to view and maintain carriers by shipping office and planning group. Carriers are linked to combinations of shipping offices and planning groups for the following reasons: To select carriers for load plans To select carriers for freight order clusters To select carriers and rates for preliminary freight cost calculations for order lines To select carriers for load plans To carry out load building, users select the freight orders and freight order lines for which they want to create a load plan and then start up the load building engine. The freight orders and freight order lines belong to a given combination of shipping office and planning group. During load building, the load building engine creates loads and shipments from the freight orders and freight order lines and selects the carrier that is to transport the loads and shipments. The load building engine selects the carrier from the carriers attached to the shipping office and the planning group of the freight orders and freight order lines for which the load plan is created. In this session, you can attach carriers to combinations of shipping offices and planning groups. Example Carriers A, B, and C are attached to shipping office X and planning group X1. If you create a load plan for a number of freight orders and freight order lines that belong to shipping office X and planning group X1, the load building engine selects carrier A, B, or C to transport the loads and shipments of the load plan. The way the load building engine selects the carrier from the carriers attached to a particular combination of shipping office and planning group, depends on various factors. These factors are described in The load building process. To select carriers for freight order clusters To carry out freight order clustering, users select the freight orders and freight order lines for which they want to create clusters and then start up the clustering process. The freight orders and freight order lines for which the users create the clusters belong to a given combination of shipping office and planning group. During the clustering process, the clustering engine selects the carrier to whom the cluster is to be subcontracted from the carriers attached to the shipping office and the planning group of the freight orders and freight order lines for which the clusters are created. In this session, you can attach carriers to combinations of shipping offices and planning groups. To select carriers and rates for preliminary freight cost calculations for order lines The carriers that you link to a particular combination of shipping office and planning group are also used to calculate preliminary freight costs for the following types of order lines: Freight order lines Sales order lines Sales quotation lines For freight order lines whose invoicing method is set to client rates, freight cost calculation can be carried out in the Freight Invoicing Information (fmfri0110m000) session before loads and shipments are created. Freight cost calculation for freight order lines with the freight costs and freight costs (update allowed) settings is carried out automatically during load building. This is the only way to calculate freight costs for such freight order lines. For sales order lines and quotation lines, freight cost calculation can be carried out before the corresponding freight order lines are created. Freight selects the carrier from the shipping office and planning group combination according to the setting of the Rate and Carrier Selection at Order Line parameter in the Freight Rates and Costs Parameters (fmfrc0100m000) session. Related topics To subcontract freight order clusters The use of shipping offices and planning groups Freight order grouping Freight cost revenue calculation at order line entry Shipping Office A department that is responsible for the organization of transportation for one or more warehouses. When goods are moved from or to a warehouse, the responsible shipping office plans the transportation of these goods or subcontracts the transportation of the goods. In direct delivery scenarios, the shipping office provides planning or transport subcontracting services for external suppliers or customers. In Freight, a shipping office plays a key role in load building and freight order clustering. Freight orders are grouped by shipping office. The groups of freight orders by shipping office are used by the load building engine to build shipments and loads, or by the freight order clustering engine to build freight order clusters. Planning Group An entity that is used to group freight order lines into shipments and loads or freight order clusters. Each freight order line is allocated to a planning group. Freight order lines with different planning groups cannot be in the same shipment, load, or freight order cluster. For example, all goods destined for Belgium are subdivided into planning group Belgium. From a hierarchical perspective, the planning group is one level below the shipping office. A shipping office has one or more planning groups. Freight orders are grouped into shipping offices, the underlying freight order lines are grouped into the planning groups of the shipping office. Carrier The carrier that is to carry out the transportation of the goods. Priority The carrier selection priority. 1 for the first priority, 2 for the second priority, and so on. The carrier selection priority is the priority according to which carriers are selected to determine the carrier rate when preliminary freight costs are calculated before load building is carried out, for the following types of order lines: Freight order lines. Sales order lines. Sales quotation lines. For freight order lines whose invoicing method is set to client rates, freight cost calculation can be carried out at order line entry, before load building is carried out. For sales order lines and quotation lines, freight cost calculation can be carried out at order line entry, before the corresponding freight order lines are created. You can give the same priority to more than one carrier. During carrier selection, carriers with the same priority are compared, and the one with the lowest rates, fastest transport, or shortest route is selected. This depends on the Carrier Selection Criterion selected in the Freight Planning Parameters (fmlbd0100m000) session or the Generate Plan (fmlbd0280m000) session. Prioritized carrier selection takes place if the Rate and Carrier Selection at Order Line parameter in the Freight Rates and Costs Parameters (fmfrc0100m000) session is set to Prioritized. Rating Level for Planning The level for which freight rates are used to calculate freight costs. Rating is done by shipment or by load. If rating is done by load, the costs are proportionately allocated to shipments. If rating is done by shipment, the costs are aggregated to the load. In this field, you can set the rating level for a carrier that is associated to a particular shipping office and planning group. Loads and shipments that are related to this shipping office/planning group and carrier combination, receive the rating level defined for the carrier. The rating levels set in this field do not apply to freight order clusters. When calculating freight costs for a freight order cluster, LN notices that load building has not been carried out, so no loads or shipments are created and therefore LN sets the rating level to Freight Order Cluster. Freight All Kinds Freight all kinds is a special freight cost rating agreement with the carrier. If the carrier and the transport requestor agree on rating according to Freight all kinds, the official freight classes of the items will be substituted by the Freight all kinds agreement. In LN, Freight All Kinds is defined as special freight class. Default Carrier If this check box is selected, the carrier is the default carrier for the current combination of shipping office and planning group. When you manually create a load, the carrier that you enter in this field is taken as the default carrier for the load after you enter the shipping office and the planning group. Loads are created in the Loads (fmlbd4100m000) session. Related topics Plan matrices and matrix definitions Carrier Invoice If this check box is selected, the carrier invoices your organization for transportation costs, and invoice matching and approval in Financials is enabled for this carrier. This applies to both load planning and freight order clustering. Performance aspects The setting of this field could affect system performance and database growth. For more information, refer to Disable unused concepts in Freight Management. |