Service Provider Country Code Tender Constraint for Open Tenders

This feature provides you with an new Service Provider Tender Constraint - Country Code Tender Constraints - that you can use to configure the Source/Destination Country Codes, Source or Destination Country Codes that will be considered feasible for including the Service Provider in Open Tenders  - Spot Bid Tenders and Broadcast Tenders.

The Country Code Tender Constraint can be found by navigating to Contract and Rate Management > Service Provider Manager > Tender Constraints tab.

Service Provider Country Code Tender Constraint

In the example below, three different Service Providers have different Country Code Tender Constraints.

Service provider Carrier01, for this Service Provider Open Tenders will be limited to Open Tenders for shipments where the Origin Country Code is = USA and the Destination Country Code is = USA.

Service Provider Carrier01 - USA to USA Tender Constraint

The Service Provider Carrier02 is configured to allow for Open Tenders where the Origin County Code is = USA and the Destination Country Code is = USA or where the Origin County Code is = USA and the Destination Country Code is = CAN. 

Service Provider Carrier02 USA to USA and USA to CAN Tender Constraint

Finally, Service Provider Carrier03, has no Tender Constraints as shown below.

Service Provider Carrier02 No Tender Constraints

In the example be low, a Spot Bid Tender is initiated for a Shipment that is a USA to USA shipment - in this case all 3 of the Service Providers are feasible, as shown below.

All Three Feasible USA to USA

In the example below, the shipment being tendered is on a USA to CAN lane, in this case only two of the three Service Providers are feasible, Carrier02 and Carrier03.  Service Provider Carrier01 - is not feasible based on the Country Code Tender Constraints - as noted in the Infeasibility Reason provided for Service Provider Carrier01.

Carrier01 Infeasible Country Code

Business Benefit

This feature provides additional Open Tender controls for managing scenarios where your Service Providers have constraints on the lanes they support at a country code level.

Steps to Enable

In addition to setting the constraints on the Tender Constraints tab, you will need to set the property glog.tender.opentender.servProvRuleCheck to true for the tender compatibility checks to be performed.  The list of compatibility checks performed, in addition to the Country Code Tender Constraints, includes:

• Equipment group of the shipment with the equipment group profile of the service providers 
• Special services of the shipment with the special services of the service providers

Again, the Tender Constraints are for Open Tenders - Spot Bid Tender and Broadcast Tenders.