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About Spot Quoting

In addition to the pricing of full orders described in Process of Creating Orders for Fleet Management, Siebel Orders for Fleet Management supports spot quoting.

Spot quoting provides prices rates for shipments that are due to be shipped soon and that meet certain requirements such as size, which the transportation provider must determine.

Spot quoting allows the customer service representative to price a movement of freight between the origin and destination by collecting a limited set of data. The origin and destination location data can be one of the following sets of data:

• Full Location Details. All location details are provided.
• Partial Location Details. These details can be one of the following:
  • Two-digit ZIP code
  • Three-digit ZIP code
  • City and state
  • City, state, and ZIP code (postal code)

This partial data is passed to the rating engine, which returns the pricing for the more generic lane, based on these partial location details. If the customer agrees to confirm the order based on this price, the customer service representative must enter full location details before submitting the order to Oracle Transportation Management.