Transport Planning

Transport planning is where you build shipments, modify shipments, and work with order movements.

Shipments

Shipments represent the movement of sets of freight from one location to another, activity at a cross-dock, and non-moving charges associated with shipping activity. All the details associated with transportation activity are included on the shipment. For example, the pickup and delivery times, equipment, transport mode, payment terms, item detail, rate record, rate offering, accessorial and special service charges, ship unit, line item, and hazardous material identifiers are all included in the information associated with a shipment.

In most cases, shipments are created from one or more order releases, which are either created in the Order Manager or sent from an external system. Oracle Transportation Management can plan shipments from multiple order releases using the Bulk Plan.

Bulk Planning

Bulk planning is the consolidation of two or more orders into one or more shipments. When you create a shipment from an order release, Oracle Transportation Management determines the equipment group, costs, stop times, the stop sequence, and itinerary for the new shipment according to the rules of shipment planning logic. You can modify the planning logic to produce shipments according to the needs of your organization.

To perform bulk planning manually, you use the Bulk Plan - Buy action.

Results

When you perform a bulk plan, a unique ID is created for the plan and informational attributes are provided about the bulk plan results.

Order Movement

An order movement allows you to plan portions of an order release based on routing. For example, you may want:

• One transport planner to manage exporting an order from source to port.
• A second transport planner to manage ocean transports from port to port.
• A third transport planner to manage importing the order from port to destination.
• A stand-alone order movement.
• The ability to create and employ an order movement template.

To accommodate this, you would generate one order movement for each itinerary leg: export, ocean, and import. Each transport planner can then manage and build shipments for each order movement.

Order movements are created automatically now for every new shipment or you can manually create them.