Connect to/Disconnect from Consolidated Shipment
Explanation
This activity is used for deciding which shipments to include in a consolidated
shipment. A shipment can either be connected to a consolidated shipment or disconnected
from a consolidated shipment. A consolidated shipment is considered as a single
departure of several shipments from a specific site, to all the delivery addresses
of the connected shipments. E.g., multiple shipments are loaded on the same
truck and unloaded on each delivery address by the same truck. A consolidated
shipment is beneficial in order to plan, monitor and execute a departure of
multiple shipments from your site. For instance activities can be executed
for all shipments connected to the consolidated shipment, the progress of all
connected shipments can be monitored, load sequence can be managed.
When connecting shipments to a consolidated shipment it is possible to compare
the transport capacity with the weight and volume of all the connected shipments
and all the shipments you intend to connect. This means that you can evaluate
if the transport capacity will be exceeded before the shipments are actually
connected to the consolidated shipment. This is done by marking the shipments
you intend to connect on the Available Shipments
tab.
Prerequisites
To connect a shipment to a consolidated shipment:
- A shipment must have been created.
- The shipment must have the same site as the consolidated shipment.
- The shipment must not be connected to another consolidated shipment.
- The shipment and the consolidated shipment must not have been delivered.
- The shipment must not have the Cancelled or Closed status.
- If you want to evaluate the transport capacity, this must have been
defined either by manually entering the weight and volume capacity in the
consolidated shipment, by manually entering a transport unit type in the
consolidated shipment or by getting the transport unit type defaulted from
the ship-via code.
To disconnect a shipment from a consolidated shipment:
- The shipment must be connected to a consolidated shipment.
- The shipment must not have been delivered.
- The shipment must not have the Cancelled or Closed status.
System Effects
When connecting a shipment to a consolidated shipment:
- The shipment is included in the consolidated shipment and can benefit
from the features of the consolidated shipment.
- The weight and volume of the shipment is added to the consolidated shipment.
- If any parameter is no longer common for all connected shipments, the
parameter will no longer have any value in the consolidated shipment. For
example if the connected shipments have the same ship-via and then you connect
another shipment with a different ship-via, then the ship-via will no longer
have any value in the consolidated shipment.
When shipments are disconnected from a consolidated shipment:
- The shipment is excluded from the consolidated shipment.
- The weight and volume of the shipment is removed from the consolidated
shipment.
- If any parameter from now on is common for all connected shipments,
the parameter will have that value in the consolidated shipment. For example
if the disconnected shipment have a different ship-via than the rest of
the connected shipments, then the ship via from now on will have the common
value in the consolidated shipment.