| Load and unload date/time tolerances |  |
| Default loading and unloading date/time tolerances are used to maintain agreements between business partners on limits within which the tolerances can exceed planned load and unload dates. Business partners usually maintain such agreements because in practice, you cannot always meet planned loading or unloading dates and times. In addition, loading and unloading date/time tolerances enable the business partners to combine orders that would otherwise have to be transported separately. In ERP LN, loading and unloading date/time tolerances provide the scope to combine freight orders that would otherwise have to be transported separately. Without such tolerances, even minor load/unload time differences between freight orders that should actually be grouped, will cause ERP LN to treat these orders as separate orders that cannot be combined. Because date and time entries, which are recorded in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), are detailed down to minutes, it would be difficult to combine freight orders at all without tolerances. You can enter general default loading and unloading date/time tolerances in the Freight Order Control Parameters (fmfoc0100m000) session, and default loading and unloading date/time tolerances for individual addresses in the Addresses - Freight Management (fmfmd0110m000) session. If tolerances are defined for the ship-from and the ship-to addresses of a freight order, and the Use Tolerances check box is selected in the Addresses - Freight Management (fmfmd0110m000) session, the tolerances defined for the ship-from and ship-to addresses of the freight order are used. If the Use Tolerances check box is cleared, the tolerances defined in the Freight Order Control Parameters (fmfoc0100m000) session are used. When ERP LN creates a freight order, the planned delivery and receipt dates of the originating order are taken as the planned load and unload dates. For manually created freight orders, the ERP LN date/time is taken as the default planned loading date/time. The default planned unloading date/time is calculated as follows: ERP LN date/time + service level or transportation time + calendars of ship-from/ship-to addresses. The transportation time of the service level is used if a service level is defined for the freight order. If not, the transportation time is calculated from the average speed defined for the relevant transport means groups and the Length distance in the Distance field of the Distance Table by City (tccom4537m000) session or the Length distance in the Distance field of the Distance Table by ZIP Code/Postal Code (tccom4538m000) session of the Common. The default earliest and latest loading and unloading dates/times are derived from the planned loading and unloading dates/times according to the calendars of the ship-from and ship-to addresses on the freight order and the tolerances defined in the Addresses - Freight Management (fmfmd0110m000) session, or the tolerances defined in the Freight Order Control Parameters (fmfoc0100m000) session. Related topics To define loading and unloading date/time tolerances Loading/unloading dates of manually created freight orders Calendar time-windows To create freight orders Freight order maintenance |