Shipping Office (fmfmd0680m000)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:
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.
Shipping Office 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 ompany 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.
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