Creating and Maintaining Zone Reservation Codes (WZRC)

Purpose: Use this menu option to create, change, delete, or display zone reservation code information.

Use of zone reservation codes: Zone reservation codes are used to identify weather-sensitive inventory, such as plant stock, for which you want to restrict shipping dates. Plant stock such as bulbs, bare root plants, or potted plants can be assigned zone reservation codes that will identify the date windows for shipping them to different regions of the country. Each zone reservation code will have a different set of restrictions. For example, hardy bulbs may have a longer shipping window than bare root plants. In this case, you would assign a different zone reservation code to hardy bulbs than to bare root plants. For each zone reservation code, you can set up date windows to restrict shipping to each geographic zone in the country. See Shipping Zone Reservation Overview, for a summary of the zone reservation process.

When do shipping zone reservation rules apply? Zone reservation processing requires the following information in order to process an order line under zone reservation rules:

• The item/SKU must be assigned a Zone reservation code to identify it as a zone reservation item.

• The offer associated with the order must be linked to a Season.

• The shipping address must be assigned to a geographic zone. The system uses zip codes or SCF codes to identify geographic zones. See Setting Up the Zip/City/State (Postal Code) Table (WZIP) for more information on zip codes and geographic zones. See Working with SCF Codes (WSCF), for more information on SCF codes and geographic zones.

• For each zone reservation code, you must define zone reservation date windows for all geographic zones in the country. See Creating and Maintaining Zone Reservation Dates (WZRD).

In this chapter:

• Work with Zone Reservations Screen

• Create Zone Reservation Screen (Creating a Zone Reservation Code)

Work with Zone Reservations Screen

How to display this screen: Enter WZRC in the Fast path field at the top of any menu or select Work with Zone Reservation Codes from a menu.

Field	Description
Zone reservation	A code that identifies a type of climate-sensitive inventory item for which you want to set up shipping restrictions by zone. Alphanumeric, 4 positions; display-only.
Description	A description of the zone reservation code. Alphanumeric, 30 positions; display-only.

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Screen Option	Procedure
Create a zone reservation code	Select Create to advance to the Create Zone Reservation Screen (Creating a Zone Reservation Code).
Change a zone reservation code description	Select Change for a zone reservation code to advance to the Change Zone Reservation screen. At this screen, you can change the description of the zone reservation code. See Create Zone Reservation Screen (Creating a Zone Reservation Code) for field descriptions.
Delete a zone reservation code	Select Delete for a zone reservation code to delete it.
Display a zone reservation code	Select Display for a zone reservation code to advance to the Display Zone Reservation screen. You cannot change any information on this screen. See Create Zone Reservation Screen (Creating a Zone Reservation Code) for field descriptions.

Create Zone Reservation Screen (Creating a Zone Reservation Code)

Purpose: Use this screen to create a zone reservation code.

How to display this screen: Select Create on the Work with Zone Reservations Screen.

Field	Description
Zone reservation	The zone reservation code. This code identifies a category of climate-sensitive inventory items for which you set up shipping restrictions by zone. Alphanumeric, 4 positions. Create screen: required. Change screen: display-only.
Description	The description of the zone reservation code. Alphanumeric, 30 positions; required.