Fleet and Bulk Planning

When running a bulk plan, you can use fleet criteria to generate shipments. This is known as Fleet Aware Bulk Planning. Fleet Aware Bulk Planning will only be performed when the FLEET AWARE BULK PLAN parameter is set to true. Network routing path creations, creation of order movements and the shipment building processes will not be influenced by the availability of fleet resource such as resource schedules. After direct and multistop shipments are created, the knowledge of resource schedules will be considered to determine which shipments need to be strung together to form optimal work assignments. In a bulk plan, OTM will first create work assignments and then continuous moves. Only shipments that are not part of a work assignment are considered for continuous moves.

Note: Work Assignments and Capacity Limits should not be used together. Work assignment logic uses resource schedules as the limited resource to be planned against, rather than capacity limits.

Note: Multiple simultaneous bulk plans should not be run when using fleet aware bulk plan.

Running multiple simultaneous bulk plans can result in loading the same resource schedule instance into multiple bulk plans and generating work assignments for a resource schedule instance that exceeds the resource schedule instance's resource count.

Work assignment creation happens if the Fleet Aware Bulk Planning parameter is set to True, regardless of the value set for CM AUTO CREATE. Here are some rules followed in the work assignment formation:

• Shipments built on 2 different legs with 2 different leg consolidation groups can be combined only if they have same resource scheduler logic scenario set on them.
• Shipments built on two different groups with the same leg consolidation group can be combined.
• Shipments built on legs that do not have leg consolidation groups cannot be combined with shipments on another leg. They can only be combined with shipments in the same leg.