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Consolidating Orders into LTL Shipments
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Consolidating Orders into LTL Shipments
Shippers often use the Consolidation Workbench to combine ordersand LTL shipments into a full truckload shipment. You can also combineorders and smaller LTL shipments into a larger LTL shipment.
For example:
- You have to deliver three LTL shipments from your factory to yourdistribution center.
- The total weight of the three shipments is 16000 pounds.
- You cut your shipping costs by consolidating the three shipmentsand sending them as one LTL shipment.
Working With LTL Freight Classes
You canuse Consolidation Workbench to combine LTL shipments that use differentfreight classes.
For example:
- You consolidate these LTL shipments:
- One shipment weighs 1500 pounds and contains items for freightclass 65.
- One shipment weighs 2000 pounds and contains items for freightclass 85.
- One shipment weighs 2500 pounds and contains items for freightclass 92.5.
- Sterling TMS calculatesthe charges for the consolidated shipment:
- Sterling TMS determinesthe charge for each LTL shipment based on the weight and freightclass.
- Sterling TMS addsthe charges together to determine the total charge for the consolidatedshipment.
- Click Show Costs in Consolidation Workbenchto compare the price of:
- Consolidating the orders as one LTL shipment.
- Shipping the orders as separate LTL shipments.
Managing Multiple Origins and Destinations
Youwill usually consolidate LTL shipments that depart from one originand arrive at one destination. However it is possible to consolidateLTL shipments that depart or arrive at different locations.
Forexample:
- You define your Cleveland distribution center as two separatelocations in Sterling TMS:
- Location Code CLEV_A is for deliveriesto Customer A.
- Location Code CLEV_B is for deliveriesto Customer B.
- You create two orders that depart from your Detroit factory:
- One order is being delivered to Location Code CLEV_A.
- One order is being delivered to Location Code CLEV_B.
- You consolidate these two orders into a single LTL shipment.
- You can use an EDI 211 transaction or XML to tender the consolidatedLTL shipment. However you can only specify one origin and one destinationin the EDI 211 shipment. Sterling TMS uses the originand destination of the first order you created.
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