Assign Compatible Equipment

This page is accessed via Shipment Management > Shipment Management > Buy Shipments or Sell Shipments > Actions > Shipment Management > Change Shipment Details > Assign Compatible Equipment.

Use this action to assign equipment to a shipment based on the equipment's past load history. This action allows you to ensure the shipment's compatibility with the equipment.

Assign Compatible Equipment

This action is similar to the Assign Equipment (to Shipment) action for fleet. However, it functions independently of fleet’s constraints. Instead, it uses the equipment’s past load history to determine the shipment's compatibility with the equipment, based on the residue in each compartment.

You can use the Equipment Saved Query ID field to filter the equipment using a predefined equipment saved query.This allows you to refine the equipment list based on both the equipment type and the conditions such as location defined in the saved query.

This action has three levels of compatibility constraints:

1. Packaged Item: The equipment’s load history includes packaged item details by compartment from previous shipments. Compatibility is checked by comparing these details with the current shipment’s load. The Packaged Item Residue Compatibility feature is used for this.
2. Commodity: The load history also contains commodity details by compartment. Compatibility is assessed by checking if the commodity in previous shipments matches the current shipment’s load.
3. Compartment Type: The compartment type of the equipment’s previous loads is compared to the shipment’s compartment type for compatibility.

The Packaged Item Residue Compatibility specifies how the application matches the equipment based on the residue of previously carried packaged items.

Note: If the equipment is cleaned after the previous shipments, then the packaged item constraint will be ignored. When multiple equipment options meet one or more of these constraints, the oldest equipment (based on arrival date) will be assigned. If no arrival date is available, the application will assign the first equipment in the list.