Transportation Schedules
Transportation schedules enable you to define valid shipping and receiving days and hours for trading partners such as organizations, suppliers, customers, and carriers.
Transportation schedules enable you to:
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Determine when shipments can be shipped and received.
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Assist Oracle Global Order Promising in planning valid shipping and receiving days.
Determine shipping and receiving schedule
The shipping and receiving schedules are used to determine when your customers, customer sites, suppliers, supplier sites, and internal organizations can ship and receive. The ship confirm process uses the defined transportation schedules to warn you of invalid shipping days and hours. The initial ship date on the shipment is validated according to shipping schedule for the warehouse and the planned delivery date is validated according to the receiving schedule for the customer or customer site.
For example, you're shipping a shipment from your warehouse in Florida on Monday, September 12, to arrive at your customer's site in New York on Wednesday, September 14. In this case, ship confirm checks the warehouse's shipping schedule and the customer's receiving schedule for the initial ship date and planned delivery date respectively to confirm the following:
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Monday, September 12, is a valid initial ship date for your warehouse in Florida to ship goods.
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Wednesday, September 14, is a valid delivery date for your customer's site in New York to receive goods.
If the initial ship date or planned delivery date is invalid, then ship confirm displays a message requesting a review of the dates entered.
Transportation schedules are also used when a pick release process is submitted.
The pick release process also consults your defined transportation schedules and adjusts ship dates as necessary. When you create a pick wave using the pick release process, you can specify a pick wave release rule that defines the scheduled ship dates and requested ship dates on the pick wave. If a shipping transportation schedule is defined for your organization, then the scheduled and requested ship dates on the pick wave are compared against the valid shipping days on the transportation schedule. If either the scheduled or requested ship date falls on an invalid shipping day for your organization, then the dates are automatically adjusted to the next valid shipping day specified in the transportation schedule. For example, if your shipping transportation schedule allows shipments Monday through Friday, and the pick wave release rule calculates a ship date that occurs on a Saturday, then the ship date is automatically moved to the following Monday.
Assist Oracle Global Order Promising in planning valid shipping and receiving days
Global Order Promising uses the transportation schedule assignments when determining supply availability dates for customer orders.
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Shipping schedule: The shipping schedule indicates the valid working dates for shipping originating from suppliers and organizations. Global Order Promising uses the shipping schedule to determine when material can be shipped from warehouses to customers.
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Receiving schedule: The receiving schedule indicates the valid working dates for receiving goods at the organizations or customer sites. Global Order Promising uses the receiving schedule to determine when material can arrive at the customer site.
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Carrier schedule: The carrier schedule indicates the working and nonworking days and times for material that's in transit using different means of transport. Global Order Promising uses the carrier schedule to determine the transit time from a warehouse to the customer site. For example, a carrier has a transit time of three days but doesn't work on weekends. This implies that the carrier can deliver a shipment that was shipped on Monday afternoon on Thursday afternoon. However, the carrier can deliver a shipment that was shipped on Friday only on Wednesday since Saturday and Sunday are nonworking days.
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Global Order Promising uses shipping, carrier, and receiving schedules to determine when internal transfers between internal manufacturing sites and warehouses can be scheduled to meet customer demands at a warehouse.
For example, shipping, receiving, and carrier schedules are used for shipping from an internal organization such as a plant to another internal organization such as a warehouse. The plant's shipping schedule is open from Tuesday to Friday. The warehouse's receiving schedule and the carrier schedule are open from Monday to Friday. The transit time is two days. In this case, the warehouse will receive shipments from the plant on Thursday, Friday, and Monday. The warehouse will not have shipments arriving on Wednesday since the plant cannot ship on Monday. If supplies are needed on Wednesday, then Global Order Promising will try to ship from the plant on the previous Friday to arrive on Tuesday.