To set up freight order grouping control
The most efficient way to
set up the data that controls the way freight orders are grouped by Shipping Office and
freight order lines are grouped by Planning Group is
as follows:
- Define shipping offices
in the Shipping Offices (fmfmd0180m000) session.
- Link warehouses to
shipping offices in the Warehouses by Shipping Office (fmfmd0185m000) session. This step is not mandatory. For more information, refer to Group freight orders by means of shipping office matrices and/or warehouses.
- Define planning groups
in the Planning Groups (fmfoc0150m000) session.
- Link planning groups to
shipping offices in the Planning Group - Shipping Office (fmfoc1100m000) session.
- Set login codes in the Users by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmfoc1105m000) session.
- Define shipping office matrix definitions in the Shipping Office Matrix Definition (fmfoc1130m000) session. This step is not mandatory. For more information, refer to Group freight orders by means of shipping office matrices and/or warehouses.
- Define shipping office matrices in the Shipping Office Matrix (fmfoc1140m000) session. This step is not mandatory. For more information, refer to Group freight orders by means of shipping office matrices and/or warehouses.
- Define matrix
definitions in the Plan Matrix Definitions (fmfoc1110m000) session.
- Define planning group
priorities by linking matrix definitions to shipping offices in the Plan Matrix Definitions by Shipping Office (fmfoc1115m000) session.
- Define plan matrices in
the Plan Matrix (fmfoc1120m000) session.
Group freight orders by means of shipping office matrices
and/or warehouses
To group freight order headers by shipping office, you can
perform the following setup:
- Set up freight order matrices to determine the shipping office
that must be allocated to freight orders.
- Link shipping offices to warehouses
- Do both
A shipping office matrix provides more criteria to select a
shipping office for freight order headers than the shipping-office-by-warehouse
links defined in the Warehouses by Shipping Office (fmfmd0185m000) session. For more information, refer to Shipping office matrices.
If you use both shipping office matrices and shipping offices
linked to warehouses to select shipping offices, shipping offices are first
allocated by means of shipping office matrices. If the shipping office matrix
searches are without results, shipping offices are allocated by means of
warehouse-by-shipping office links defined in the Warehouses by Shipping Office (fmfmd0185m000) session.
Note that if you use Freight in a multi-site setup, you must
define shipping office matrices and shipping office matrix definitions. For
freight orders used in direct deliveries, you must also use shipping office
matrices to select a shipping office. For more information, refer to To use Freight Management for direct deliveries.