Carrier Capacities and Commitments in Bulk Planning

Carrier Capacities define the number of equipment resources a carrier has on a given lane or capacity limit group during a specific time period. The capacities can be defined as a recurring capacity or as a daily capacity. Once the capacities are defined, OTM ensures the capacity limits are honored.

A carrier commitment represents a contract between the shipper and a carrier. The shipper promises to give the carrier a certain number of shipments per time period (such as per week or per month) in return for a negotiated rate. You can model commitments either by count or as a percentage of total volume.

A bulk plan running service provider assignment optimization will only take into account that bulk plan even if another bulk plan is also running service provider assignment optimization at the same time. However, the parallel bulk plans will not over-scribe carrier capacity.