Accessorial

An accessorial can be assigned to a rate offering to include any number of contingency charges for special circumstances. Once an accessorial code is created in Power Data (Rates and Codes), you can provide additional attributes such as the accessorial charges, effective/expiration dates, regions and lanes, calendars, etc. using the Rate Manager .

During shipment planning, Oracle Transportation Management can decide which rate offering is used for the shipments that are created from the order (you can also impose that a specific rate be used on an order if you do not want Oracle Transportation Management to determine the least cost rate).

If the rate offering (that is chosen during planning) and the order base have the same assessorial code assignment, then the assessorial charge is applied to the rate. If the order has no assessorial assignment, but the rate that Oracle Transportation Management chooses does, the assessorial charge is not applied.

Note: An accessorial assignment on an order does not limit the rates that can be used to calculate shipment costs. It only determines whether the accessorial charges are applied if a matching accessorial is on the rate.

Location and Item Accessorial

Locations and items can also have accessorial assignments in addition to the order base. In this case, Oracle Transportation Management evaluates the accessorial assignments for locations first, followed by base order, and then items. If Oracle Transportation Management finds a valid accessorial on a location, the charge is applied and Oracle Transportation Management ignores subsequent assignments on the order or items. Oracle Transportation Management continues through the order mentioned in the same manner.

Accessorial charges that are made based on locations depend on the activity defined on the accessorial and whether the location is assigned as the Source or Destination on the order. For example, you can identify an accessorial as Pickup or Delivery (Activity) on the rate. If the accessorial is Pickup and the location (with the accessorial) is entered as the Source Destination on the order, the charge is made. The same is true for a delivery accessorial and destination location on the order.

Buy to Sell Accessorials

These accessorials are called flow thru accessorials. You can create flow thru accessorials and assign them to buy shipments. The flow thru accessorial is automatically carried over to any resulting sell shipments so that it may be applied to customer bills. You can designate an accessorial as a flow thru accessorial by selecting the Accessorial Code page in Power Data.

The following rules apply to flow thru accessorials:

• If one sell shipment contains multiple orders from the same buy shipment, the flow thru accessorial only applies once.
• If one sell shipment contains multiple orders from multiple buy shipments, all accessorials including duplicates are applied to the sell shipment.
• If one buy shipment contains multiple orders for multiple sell shipments, the flow thru accessorial is applied to each sell shipment.