SPA Correct Shipment Early Start Date

This Optional Feature, when enabled, addresses issues that were causing inconsistent shipment start dates depending upon whether cheaper Service Providers have zero capacity defined on the shipment's earliest start date, while other Service Providers do have available capacity.  The SPA Correct Shipment Early Start Date optional feature, will calculate a single earliest start date for your shipment that will be used consistently to evaluate all Service Providers.

Here is an example. There are 5 orders per day Monday through Friday and there is an Early Planning Day that 5 will start each day.    If there is one Bulk Plan, there is one result, however if there are Bulk Plans each day, the results will be different.

Example

Business Benefit

This feature allows the client to have better control over the assignment of shipments to carriers when the best carrier does not have service available on the first start day.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.