Features of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management System

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system contains planning features for shipments that enable you to arrange, track, configure, and update the transportation system. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management includes these features:

Feature	Description
Transportation planning with shipments	After you place an order through the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Sales Order Management system, the system creates a shipment. You can place multiple orders on a single shipment or only place one order per shipment. Shipments, the foundation of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system, are then shipped along a particular route, either automatically or manually selected. The shipment must be confirmed to verify the product on board, the actual shipment date and time, and the actual weight. Shipments can be combined and placed on loads to save freight charges and delivery times.
Shipment routing	Shipment routing is the process of selecting a carrier and a mode of transport to service the shipment. Routing entries define origins and destinations that are served by common carriers or a private fleet. After a shipment is routed, the system then calculates possible rates to charge for that shipment.
Shipment rating	Shipment rating provides information about the cost that is incurred to move goods from an origin to a final destination. Shipment rating calculates the charges based on routing and the amounts that are billed to customers for transportation costs. Rating offers flexibility through lookup type, unit, and prorated rates.
Load building	Use load building to consolidate shipments into loads for easier transporting. Loads reduce both billable and payable freight costs. You can build loads from shipments that consist of either packaged or bulk products.
Shipment and delivery confirmation	Shipment confirmation (or load confirmation) verifies the quantities of items that are placed on the shipments or loads against the quantities as recorded on the original order. Delivery confirmation verifies the quantities of items that are actually delivered to the customers against the quantities that were recorded on the original order. The system enables you to record inventory depletions and track in-transit inventory through delivery confirmation. For inbound shipments, the system includes receipt processing for purchase orders at shipment and delivery confirmation.
Shipping documents	Shipping documents are standard delivery documents, such as bills of lading, shipment manifests, and shipment labels.
Shipment tracking	The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system provides a method of tracking shipments through carriers. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system offers a standard business function to track shipments over the internet if a carrier provides internet tracking.
Freight update	During freight update, the system creates shipment charge records to various accounts. The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system completes these tasks: Creates records in the general ledger for shipment charges. Creates vouchers in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Accounts Payable system. Creates records in sales order tables for billable charges that are associated with freight invoices.
Freight audit history	You can review and revise the Fee table. This table contains freight charges that you incur and charge to customers.
Transportation Preferences	Transportation preferences enable you to configure shipment processing for specific business requirements. Typically, you create preferences when you have consistent business requirements that differ from the default values of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Transportation Management system. For example, you can create preferences to accommodate: Customer-specific requirements. Supplier-specific requirements (for inbound shipments). Company policies. Regulatory agencies' rules. Item-specific requirements.
Inbound shipments	Inbound shipments, such as purchase orders or credit returns, have many of the same characteristics as standard outbound shipments. For example, an inbound shipment represents a movement of products from a single origin (for a purchase order, the supplier) to a single destination (the purchaser).