Setting Up Itineraries

Itineraries determine the route for shipments. Use itineraries to control much of how shipment planning occurs at your organization and to mirror the way you move freight. In addition, itineraries help decide what orders get put together when creating a shipment.  

Selecting an Itinerary

Oracle Transportation Management finds itineraries for an order or a group of orders by locating all the itineraries that match the source and destination locations on the orders.

Then Oracle Transportation Management removes from consideration the itineraries that fail to meet the itinerary rules. Itinerary rules match information on the order to parameters on the itinerary. For example, if a given itinerary is valid for a particular service provider, orders that do not use that service provider cannot use the itinerary.

From the remaining itineraries, Oracle Transportation Management selects the one that offers the lowest cost.

Buy and Sell Itineraries

Use itineraries to handle the different sides of your business. Itineraries can be defined for buying shipment services from a service provider, selling shipment services to a customer, or both.

The Perspective field determines whether an itinerary is used for buying or selling shipment services. A buy itinerary gets associated with a buy shipment and a buy rate, and a sell itinerary gets associated with a sell shipment and rate.

Pool-Crossdock Itineraries

A Pool-Crossdock itinerary is an itinerary that uses the legacy Pool-Crossdock logic. Such an itinerary still can be used to model a single leg scenario for direct multistop shipments, though there are other recommended ways to model this scenario.  

Note: For a single leg, non-network itinerary to be used in multi-stop shipments, you must select the Pool-Crossdock Itinerary check box.

Multi-leg Itineraries

Multi-leg itineraries move freight using multiple shipments and multiple transportation modes. Use multi-leg itineraries to plan orders that require more than one transportation mode. Define each leg of the itinerary to be responsible for a separate shipment. This is another way of modelling transportation networks.

Cross-Docks

A cross-dock is a location where freight is consolidated for assembly into shipments or de-consolidated for delivery to customers. Define itineraries that determine when shipments go to a cross-dock and which cross-dock a particular shipment uses.

De-Consolidation Pools

Orders with destination locations in the region associated with a pool are candidates for the pool. They can be sent to the pool and de-consolidated for delivery to the destination based on values you enter in this section.

Fixed Itineraries

A fixed itinerary is an itinerary that is assigned to an order. Shipments created from the order must use the fixed itinerary.