| | The use of addresses in Freight ManagementThe addresses maintained
in Freight originate from Common.
You can add specific freight related data to each address, including: - Areas
- Shipment procedures
- Lead times, including
load and unload date/time tolerances
- Distances between addresses, which you can define in the
following sessions:
- Distance Table by City (tccom4137s000)
- Distance Table by ZIP Code/Postal Code (tccom4138s000)
The addresses maintained
in Freight are
used for the following purposes: - To indicate the ship-to
or ship-from address on freight orders.
- To provide, by means of
the specific Freight data, some information about the ship-to or ship-from
address on freight orders, such as lead times.
- To group freight orders
as a preparatory step for transportation planning and/or freight order
clustering.
- Transportation planning
- Transport costing
LN uses
the address lead times and the distances between the addresses for transport
planning and transport costing. | |