Set Up Calendars for Carriers

Set up a calendar for your carrier so that the lead time for a planned order considers the carrier's work days and nonwork days.

Consider a scenario.

• You create a calendar for your Federal Express carrier that's open only on Wednesday, you set the requested date to Friday on the order line, resulting in a promise date that happens after the requested date.
• You have a faster method named Overnight Delivery. The carrier schedule for Overnight Delivery is Monday through Friday, so Promising sets the method to Overnight Delivery, but you expected the order line to default to 2 Day Air.

If you don't provide the shipping method on the order line, then Promising promises the order within the requested date or with the minimum delay. The request type on the line affects promising:

If Request Type Is	Then Promising Promises According to The Requested
Ship On	Ship Date Promising uses the default shipping method because the shipping method doesn't affect on time delivery.
Arrive On	Arrival Date If the default shipping method can't deliver on time or with minimal delay, then Promising uses the fastest shipping method.

If you're importing the order, then the PromisingType attribute specifies the type, and it contains Ship or Arrival.

If you prefer to use 2 Day Air by default, then you must revise 2 Day Air's calendar so it can ship on more days than only Wednesday.

Detailed Example

Assume you set up Promising so it considers the lead time that it needs to process a supply request for a transfer item. It includes weekends as work days. You transfer supply through your Federal Express carrier, but Federal Express doesn't work on weekends. You can assign a calendar that doesn't have weekends, and promising won't include weekends when it calculates the lead time.

1. Go to the Setup and Maintenance work area, then go to the task.
   • Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
   • Functional Area: Shipping
   • Task: Manage Transportation Schedules
2. Click Actions > Create, then set the values. For example:

   Trading Partner Type	Carrier
   Trading Partner	Federal Express
   Schedule Usage	Carrier
   Schedule Name	My Schedule
   Carrier	Fedex

For details, see Transportation Schedules.