Overview

In the transportation industry, reference number rollover is required when a carrier provides a limited number of Pro IDs, for example, to a shipper or 3PL and then reuses these numbers once the end of the sequence has been reached.

In Transportation Manager, each Reference Number is associated with a Reference Number Qualifier. When the flag Enforce Uniqueness is set to true for a Reference Number Qualifier, it means reference number uniqueness will be enforced within the Reference Number Qualifier. If any Reference Number is found to be a duplicate, an error message will be shown indicating that a duplicate reference number has been found for this particular Reference Number Qualifier.

Reference Number Rollover allows for reuse of an existing Reference Number even though the Enforce Uniqueness flag is checked for the Reference Number Qualifier. When the Rollover function is activated from the List of Reference Number Qualifiers, eligible reference numbers attached to this qualifier will be moved to a mirrored Reference Number Qualifier. This mirrored Reference Number Qualifier will not enforce reference number uniqueness. The reference numbers that have been rolled over will then be available for re-use while the original reference numbers will continue to be associated with the same transaction via the alternate qualifier.