Routes

You can use routes to streamline deliveries. During order entry, you can assign the order to a route if the PeopleSoft Inventory business unit assigned to the schedule uses routes. In this case, the system searches the routes to find a match by PeopleSoft Inventory business unit, ship-to customer, address, carrier, and ship via code.

If the system doesn't find a match, it doesn't assign a route code. If the system finds a match, the system first calculates the scheduled ship date and time assigns the route code to the Ship Options tab on the Shipment Schedules page and then assigns the route stop number.

The system recalculates the scheduled arrival date and time by adding the transportation lead time to the scheduled ship date and time. The system performs the calculation when you save the order line; the system passes the calculation to the order schedule. If the new scheduled arrival date and time is later than the customer's requested arrival date and time, the system asks whether you want to override the scheduled arrival date and time. If you decline, the route is not assigned to the order schedule.

If the ship from PeopleSoft Inventory business unit, ship-to customer, address sequence number, scheduled ship date and time, carrier, and ship via values are changed after the route has been assigned, the system drops the route from the schedule.

You can still add a ship-to customer to a route on the Ship Options 2 tab on the Shipment Schedules page if the ship-to customer isn't part of the route definition. The scheduled ship date and time, carrier, and ship via code appear automatically.

Routes can also be assigned to electronic data interchange (EDI) orders using the same logic for orders entered during order entry.

Note:

Routes will not be calculated and assigned for schedules marked for customer pickup.

Note:

Routes will not be recalculated if third-party freight shopping assigns a different carrier ID to the order schedule. The schedule and its demand will be removed from the route.