| | Standard Routes by Shipping Office and Planning Group (fmlbd0156m000)Use this session to link standard routes to
combinations of shipping offices and planning groups. Shipping Office A department that is responsible for the organization of
transportation for one or more warehouses. When goods are moved from or to a
warehouse, the responsible shipping office plans the transportation of these
goods or subcontracts the transportation of the goods. In direct delivery
scenarios, the shipping office provides planning or transport subcontracting
services for external suppliers or customers. In Freight, a shipping office plays a key role in load building and
freight order clustering. Freight orders are grouped by shipping office. The
groups of freight orders by shipping office are used by the load building
engine to build shipments and loads, or by the freight order clustering engine
to build freight order clusters. Planning Group An entity that is used to group freight order lines into
shipments and loads or freight order clusters. Each freight order line is allocated to a planning group.
Freight order lines with different planning groups cannot be in the same
shipment, load, or freight order cluster. For example, all goods destined for
Belgium are subdivided into planning group Belgium. From a hierarchical perspective, the planning group is one
level below the shipping office. A shipping office has one or more planning
groups. Freight orders are grouped into shipping offices, the underlying
freight order lines are grouped into the planning groups of the shipping
office. Standard Route A standard route is a fixed route that is traveled with a
particular frequency, such as a truck that visits delivery and/or loading
addresses according to a fixed schedule, a rail service, or a boat service.
Usually, transportation via standard routes costs less than travel via
non-fixed routes. For example, you can define a route like Amsterdam via
Rotterdam to Antwerp that is run once a day. | |