Rate Service and Bulk Plan

Rate Service determines how to calculate the transit times between shipment stops. OTM supports several different types of rate services – Air Schedule, Day Duration, External Drive, External Transit Days, Ground Service, Lookup, Simulation, Time Definite Service and Voyage Schedule. See Rate Service Details for more information. The figure below shows different scheduling engines in OTM that use different types of rate services.

• By Day Schedules: Day Duration, Distance Duration, External Transit Time, Time Definite
• Fixed Schedulers: Air Schedule, Voyage Schedule, Ground Schedule
• Simulation Schedulers: Drive Simulation, External Rate Service, Lookup Rate Service