Transport Mode Profiles

This page is accessed via:

• Shipment Management > Power Data > General > Mode Profiles
• Master Data > Power Data > General > Transport Mode Profile

Mode Profiles allow you to identify and define groups of transportation modes that have similar attributes. Since every rate offering has a transportation mode, you can use mode profiles to limit which rates can be used to ship an order. A transport mode profile also allows you to create one compliance rule for a group of transport modes, based on which a formula will be assigned and used for landed cost calculation.

When Oracle Transportation Management bundles orders and builds shipments, it checks that there is an intersection between the transportation mode values identified on the order bases. While Mode Profiles are created in Power Data, the modes themselves are standard and cannot be changed or augmented.

Example: Transport Mode Rule

Order Bundle	Transportation Mode
Order Bundle 1	TL
Order Bundle 2	TL or LTL
Order Bundle 3	LTL

 

Result

• Order Bundle 1 and 2 are compatible
• Order Bundle 2 and 3 are compatible
• Order Bundle 1 and 3 are not compatible

Creating a Mode Profile

1. Enter a unique identifier in the Mode Profile ID field. You will use this ID when you refer to this mode profile on other pages.
2. Enter a name for the mode profile in the Mode Profile Name field.
3. If you select the Compatible check box, the system includes the transportation modes in the profile in searches in other areas of the system. If you clear this check box, the modes are excluded from searches in other areas of the system and do not appear in any results.
   
   For example, you may create a mode profile called ground_only to indicate that this profile includes only those transportation modes that can move on land (this profile would, by definition, not include air and vessel transportation modes). Because you want those modes of transportation to be included in any searches that require ground transportation, the Compatible check box should be marked. You can then create a second profile called ground_only_exclude. This second profile would include the same transportation modes, but the Compatible check box should be cleared. If you then want air or vessel transportation modes, you can use the ground_only_exclude profile, since the modes included in this profile would be excluded from searches because they were not marked as compatible. Depending on whether the Compatible check box is marked, the transportation modes in the profile would be included or excluded from searches in other areas of the system, such as Rate Manager or Itinerary Manager.

Note: The Compatible check box is not considered by Sourcing.

4. Select a domain in which this mode profile will be active from the Domain Name drop-down list.
5. Enter a transport mode ID in the Transport Mode ID field.
6. Click Save.

Note: You can add as many transport modes as you need. Remember to click Save after entering each transport mode.

7. Click Finished.