Identifying Eligible Delivery Schedule Itineraries

When an internal delivery schedule is defined for a potential tariff service, the scheduling process will first identify eligible itineraries for the designated delivery schedule.

If the “Enforce Rules of Geographical Hierarchy” flag for a delivery schedule is true, only the timetable entries for the most geographically precise itinerary will be considered. When false, the timetable entries for all eligible itineraries will be considered. Geographical precision is relevant when itineraries use zones to define itinerary points. An itinerary with points referencing zones for the state of New York, USA and the state of Illinois, USA will be considered more geographically precise than an itinerary where one of the itinerary point refers to a zone representing the lower 48 states.

Scheduling supports all stop types when using delivery schedules: Pick, Drop, Pick and Drop.

Once an eligible delivery schedule itinerary is identified, the timetable entries for the itinerary points will be used during scheduling. If no itinerary is compatible with the itinerary for a transaction, the route will not be considered.

Address overrides for are ignored when using itinerary points that refer to specific shipping locations.

Delivery schedules cannot be used for any of the following types of transactions:

Trips
Round-trips
Domicile-based routes

Parcel, Rail, Air and Ocean

When a delivery schedule itinerary represents a parcel, rail, air or ocean service, routes typically will be single pick and single drop. Shippers have no control over these 3rd party route structures. As long as the two stops on the point-to-point itinerary are compatible with the relative sequence of the delivery schedule itinerary points, the itinerary is applicable. For example, a shipment leg moving from A -> B may use any of these delivery schedule itineraries:

A -> B

A -> C -> B

Z -> A -> B

The shipper has no control over which itinerary represents a “better” route.

Tariff service combinations that use these types of delivery schedules will typically not allow intermediate stops. These delivery schedules could be used to schedule the following carrier oriented transactions:

Shipment Legs
Loads where itinerary is single-pick / single drop
Rate Quotations where itinerary is single-pick / single drop

Delivery schedules can also be used to schedule loads and rate quotations with an itinerary with multiple pick stops and/or multiple drop stops.

The “Stops Must Match Itineraries” flag defined at the delivery schedule level gives shippers control over how the itineraries of a delivery schedule should be used for an itinerary with multiple stops:

When “Stops Must Match Itineraries” is False, scheduling will identify an in-order sequence of delivery schedule itinerary points based upon the order of stops on the transaction’s itinerary. When identifying a delivery schedule itinerary, the first pick stop and the last drop stop may match to a zone or a shipping location in a delivery schedule itinerary, but any intermediate stop on the itinerary must match to the exact shipping location as opposed to a zone in the delivery schedule itinerary. Stops need not match congruous itinerary points as long as the stop sequence is compatible with the relative sequence of the itinerary points. For example, a load with stops A > B> D may use an itinerary that visits locations X -> A -> Y -> B -> C-> D -> E in sequence.
When “Stops Must Match Itineraries” is True, scheduling will use the shipping locations for the transaction’s itinerary to identify eligible delivery schedule itineraries where both the locations and sequence match exactly. Any itineraries with extra unused itinerary point(s), or with a different itinerary point sequence, or that use itinerary points that are defined by zones will be disqualified. For example, a load with stops A -> B-> D must use itinerary A -> B-> D, but not X -> A-> Y -> B -> C-> D -> E. The delivery schedule’s “Enforce Rules of Geographic Hierarchy” is not relevant in this mode.