| # Shipping Offices (fmfmd0180m000) Use this session to view and maintain shipping offices. To use a Shipping Office for load building and freight order clustering purposes, you must link the shipping office to one or more warehouses, planning groups, and matrix definitions. To link a shipping office to warehouses, planning groups, matrix definitions, and login codes, you must use the options on the appropriate menu to run the relevant sessions. For efficiency reasons, link shipping offices to these entities in the following order: Warehouses by Shipping Office (fmfmd0185m000). In this session, you can link warehouses to shipping offices. Planning Group - Shipping Office (fmfoc1100m000). In this session, you can link planning groups to shipping offices. Plan Matrix Definitions by Shipping Office (fmfoc1115m000). In this session, you can link a shipping office to matrix definitions and provide the matrix definitions with sequence numbers. Users by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfoc1105m000). In this session, you can maintain user authorizations for shipping offices and planning groups. If you link a user logon code to a combination of a shipping office and a planning group, the user is authorized for this combination. Note You can link a shipping office to various warehouses, but you can only link a warehouse to one shipping office. Only authorized users can use planning groups and shipping offices to build shipments and loads or to cluster freight orders. Authorizations are given for combinations of shipping offices and planning groups in the Users by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfoc1105m000) session. However, if the External updates on actual plans allowed check box is selected in the Freight Planning Parameters (fmlbd0100m000) session, unauthorized users can change plan and order data for actual load plans. Related topics The use of shipping offices and planning groups Freight order grouping Plan matrices and matrix definitions Freight Management in multisite environments Shipping Office A shipping office is a department of the Shipping Office type. Note that the shipping office cannot be deleted or modified if freight orders are present for the shipping office in the planning company. Freight Planning Company The company in which freight orders are planned and executed by responsibility of the shipping office. In multi-site environments, a shipping office can plan freight orders created in other companies. The freight planning company cannot be changed if freight orders are present for the shipping office in the freight planning company. In addition, to add a freight planning company, the combination shipping office and freight planning company must exist as a department in Enterprise Modeling Management. Default Planning Group The default planning group of the current shipping office. Enterprise Unit The enterprise unit of the current shipping office. Related topics Enterprise Units (tcemm0130m000) |