Leg Consolidation Group

This page is accessed via Shipment Management > Power Data > General > Leg Consolidation Group.

The Leg Consolidation Group page makes shipment consolidation easier to control. It allows for order movement grouping in order movement planning to facilitate shipment timing and consolidation. Leg consolidation groups are available for the following: Network Leg, Itinerary Leg, Order Release, Order Movement, and Order Release Leg Constraint. Planning will not set or modify the leg consolidation group values for these entities. These are just inputs for planning. For order movement creation, planning populates the leg consolidation group on order movements.

Note: You still need the ALLOW DIFF ORIG LEG GID OMS CONSOLIDATE parameter set to true to allow orders on different legs to consolidate onto the same shipment.

The logic configuration - network routing parameter ALLOCATE SERVICE PROVIDERS BY OM GROUP determines if service provider assignment logic is used to allocate shipments for each order movement group, after shipments have been built for that group (and thus before shipments are built for subsequent order movements groups). The default is false, so service provider assignment is not called until after all shipments have been built.

The logic configuration - network routing parameter USE LEG CONSOLIDATION GROUPS IN ROUTE SELECTION  enables consideration of cross-leg consolidation in routing.

Adding Leg Consolidation Groups

1. Enter a Leg Consolidation Group ID.
2. Enter a Leg Consolidation Group Name.
3. Enter a Description.
4. Enter a Sequencing Factor. This determines how to sequence the order movement groups. The lower the number (the absolute value), the earlier the order movement group will be planned in bulk plan. A sequencing factor of "0" will be planned first. This sequencing factor can be negative. It should be negative when legs with this leg consolidation group precede the leg intended to be planned first.
5. Auto Consolidation Type defines the way shipments on this leg consolidation group gets consolidated. Choose one of the following options:
   • Null indicates that there is no consolidation or multi-stop planning on this leg consolidation group.
   • Multi-stop into One Equipment indicates that shipments built on this leg consolidation group are sent to multi-stop algorithm to consolidate into multi-stop shipments with one piece of equipment for each multi-stop shipment. Only the first leg and last leg of an itinerary can have this Auto Consolidation Type.
   • Consolidate into One Shipment/Multiple Equipment indicates that all shipments built on this leg consolidation group will be consolidated into one shipment (if time window is feasible) with multiple equipment.

   Note: Shipment consolidation is applicable for Bulk Plan Network Routing.

6. Enter a Capacity Limit Group if you want to represent carrier capacity constraints that should apply to a leg or a group of legs. This would be instead of having to define carrier capacity by lane.
7. Enter a Multistop Logic Scenario. This is used to create new logic scenarios of any logic configuration type. You can define multistop logic scenarios at the leg consolidation group level. The multistop functionality in network routing uses the overridden multistop logic scenario parameter values defined in the leg consolidation group instead of the multistop logic configuration parameter values defined in parameter set, for creating multistop shipments.
8. Enter a Resource Scheduler Logic Scenario. This is used to identify which parameters from the Resource Scheduler Logic Configuration should be used for a particular leg.
9. Click Finished.