Split Shipment Options

The Split Shipment Options are accessed via Shipment Management > Shipment Management > Buy Shipments or Sell Shipments > Actions > Operational Planning > Change Shipment Route > Split Shipment.

Oracle Transportation Management gives you the option of splitting shipments to create a new shipment or order movement.

Note: When using the Split Shipment action, the Ignore Constraints page opens. The only valid constraint is Order Movement Original Leg ID. The other constraints do not work with this action.

This action is useful when you need to make a change to a shipment. For example, you can split a shipment and then make a change to one of the resulting shipments, such as diverting the shipment.

This action cannot be used if the shipment was created from a schedule with a type of Dynamic trip or Static trip.

• Ship Unit - Use this option to split ship units into more ship units.
• Order Release - Use this option to split one or more order releases from a shipment.
• Order Movement - Use this option to remove an order movement from a shipment.
• Percentage - Use this option to split ship units by percentage. Percentages must equal 100%.
• Equipment - Use this option to split ship units by equipment.
• Stop - Delivered Order Releases - Use this option to split order releases based on shipment stop.

If a shipment has no orders after using any of these actions, the shipment is deleted from the database if it is a planned shipment. A SAW (Shipment as Work) is not automatically deleted; however, you can delete using the delete button from the Shipment Manager.

Split Shipment Example

In the following diagram, the letter indicates shipments and numbers indicate orders. Three shipment-orders (A-1, B-2, and C-3) travel from three different source locations. They are all shipped together on Shipment D-1,2,3. Then when they arrive at their destination pool, they become shipment-orders E-1, F-2, and G-3, each travelling to separate destinations.

When splitting a shipment, you have the option of splitting to a direct shipment or a parallel shipment. The following examples illustrate such splits.

• Direct: Shipment-order C-3 is split to a direct shipment. That shipment would be separate from D-1,2,3. It would be a new shipment that would go straight to its destination having only one more leg. It would be as if D were skipped and the shipment went right to the destination of shipment-order H-3. Shipment D-1,2,3 would then just be shipment D 1,2.

• Parallel: A shipment is created parallel to D-1,3. In this example H-2 would be a parallel shipment to D-1,3. A new shipment, when split, does not go through a replanning process but takes on the characteristics of the original shipment; for example, same start and end time; same source and destination location, same rate offering, same rate service, same equipment, same preceding and succeeding shipments.

• Consol: The third option is split to consol. It places the shipment on a new consol shipment.