Considerations for Origin Type and Destination Type

After you specify an origin and destination location, you can define the transit times by different shipping methods.

For example, you can ship goods from origin A to destination B by truck, rail, and air. You can define the transit time by shipping method, such as:

Truck- 5 days
Rail- 2 days
Air- 1 day

When an order is placed for delivery from origin A to destination B, the customer also specifies the date on which the goods are required to reach the destination. This is known as the requested delivery date. After the shipping method is determined, the specified transit time is used to calculate the date on which the shipment should be shipped from origin A to reach destination B by the requested delivery date. The application verifies the dates and adjusts to avoid nonworking dates, such as weekends or holidays.

Your origin location may have Saturdays and Sundays as nonworking days while your destination location may have Fridays and Saturdays as nonworking days. If the customer specifies a Sunday as the requested delivery date, the application will adjust the date to Monday. If the selected transit time is 5 days, the shipment will arrive on Saturday. The application will adjust that date to the next working day at the destination location, which is Sunday.

Before selecting the origin and destination types consider what the ship-from organization and ship-to location is.

Origin and Destination Types and Locations

First, determine the point of origin and the destination. Then select the origin type and destination type. The origin and destination types are: Internal Location, Supplier Address, Ship-to Address, Geography, and Zone. The origin and destination locations will appear based on what you select as origin and destination types. For example, the location types can be an internal location such as a warehouse or supplier address, a geography such as a region or country, or a zone that is a grouping of geographies such as Asia Pacific. After you specify the origin and destination combination, you can add multiple shipping methods and transit times at a later point in time. This also lets you offer a range of shipping methods and time choices to your customer.

Use of Transit Times for Anticipated Delivery or Shipping Dates

Similar to the requested delivery date, the application might correct nonworking dates when calculating the scheduled ship date. It uses only internal locations or supplier addresses to adjust for nonworking time. For example, weekends or holidays would be considered nonworking time. Internal locations and supplier addresses can be mapped to a schedule using the location. The application may consider subinventory locations when adjusting dates.

Note: Inventory organizations are associated with schedules. Subinventories for an inventory can optionally have an associated location. If the user has a subinventory with a different location than the parent inventory organization, the application first searches if any inventory organizations have the location. If one is found, the schedule for that inventory organization is used to adjust for non-working time. If no inventory organization is found using the location, then all subinventories are searched for the location. If one is found, the parent inventory organization's schedule is used. For supplier addresses, you can model a schedule using the Manage Transportation Schedules task in the Setup and Maintenance workarea for either the supplier site or the supplier level. If the transit time uses an external supplier address as the origin or destination, the application searches for the supplier address in your existing managed transportation schedules, first at the supplier site and then at the parent supplier. If either is found with a schedule in the Manage Transportation Schedules data, that schedule is be used for adjusting dates.Zones and geographies aren't used to calculate the anticipated delivery date for inventory because a schedule isn't associated with a zone or geography.