MULTI-STOP SCENARIO IN ORACLE TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

Bangalore,India Truck Bombay,India

Bangalore,India Chennai,India
Truck

Basic Set-up Steps (Business Modelling Function)

1. Defining Locations and Corporations for the source and destinations.

2. Creation and Assignment of a Calendar to the location.

3. Defining a Contact and assigning it to the location

4. Create a Commodity , Item and associate the Item to the Commodity

5. Create a Equipment Group, Equipment Group Profile and associate the

Equipment Group to the profile

6. Defining of Service Providers

7. Create Rate Service and Rate Offerings for Service Providers

8. Associate Rate Service to the Rate Offerings

9. Create a Rate Record associated to the Rate Offerings

10. Create a Itenary for scenario

Steps in Simulation (Order Management, Transportation Planning and
Shipment Execution)

• Creation of a Simple Order (Order Management >>Purchase Order>>Simple

Order

• Build Shipment from the automatically created release. (Order

Management>>Order Release>>Order Release>>Actions>>Buy Shipment
>>Direct)

• View the Shipment on a Map (Shipments>>Actions>>View>>Map related

shipments)

• Tender the shipment to the service provider (Shipments View Page

>>Actions>>Tender>>Secure Resources)

• Acceptance of the Tender by the Service Provider (Shipments View Page

>>Actions>>Tender>>Accept Tender)

• Create an Invoice from the Buy Shipment (Shipments View Page

>>Actions>>Settlement>>Create Invoice)
 DEFINING BUSINESS OBJECTS

1 Defining Locations A. Transportation Planning and Execution: Location

and Corporations Management>>Location Manager>>New

Identification tab:
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Location Id: MLS_BANGALORE
Corporation ID: AM
City: BANGALORE
Country Code: IND
Time Zone: Asia/Calcutta
Latitude: 12.95
Longitude: 77.61

Roles tab
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Location Role: Ship From/Ship To
Calender Id: Define calender -- Ban_Cal

Communications and Remarks tab

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Communication Method: E-mail
E-mail address: xyz.com

B. Click Finished to complete Location Creation

C. Create another Location: MLS_MUMBAI and MLS_CHENNAI as per

steps above
2 Define Commodity , A. Order Management>>
Item MaterialManagement>>Commodity>>New

Commodity Id: COMNEW

Commodity Name: NEW COMMODITY

B. Order Management>>Material
Management>>Commodity>>New

Item Id: ITEM1

Commodity Id: COMNEW

Click New Package Item Id: ITEM1_PACK

Packaging Unit: STANDARD PALLET
Package Weight: 2 KG

C. Click Save and Finished

3 Defining Equipment A. Asset Management>>Equipment Group Management
Groups and >>Equipment Group>>New
Equipment Group
Profile Equipment Group Id : TRUCK
Effective Volume: 18.79 CUM
Effective Weight: 80.00 KG
Length: 0.25 M
Weight: 0.25 M
Volume: 0.25 M

B. Click Finished

C. Asset Management>>Equipment Group Management

>>Equipment Group Profile>>New

Equipment Group Profile Id : TRUCK_PROF

Compatible: Checked
Equipment Group Id: Select TRUCK and Save

D. Click Finished
4. Define Service A. Contract and Rate Management>>Service Provider
Provider Management>> Service Provider Manager>>New

Service Provider Id: DHL

Corporation Id: AM
Mode Profile: TL
Invoicing Process: STANDARD
City: BANGALORE
Country Code: IND

Communications and Remarks tab

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Communication Method: E-mail
E-mail address: xyz.com

D. Click Finished

5 Define Rate Service

A. Contract and Rate Management>>Contract Management>>
Rate Service>>New

Rate Service Header tab

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Rate Service Id: AM_RATE
Rate Service Type: LOOKUP
 Rate Service Details
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A. Define New Lane

Lane Id: LANE_B

Source Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY
Destination Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY
Country Code: IND

B. Click Finished

C. Service Time: 1 DAY

D. Click Finished

6 Define Rate A. Contract and Rate Management>>Contract Management>>

Offering Rate Offering>>New

Rate Header tab

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Offering Id: AM_OFFER
Offering Type: TL
Rate Service Id: AM_RATE
Transport Mode: TL
Perspective : ALL
Currency: USD
Version: 2005_2010
Exchange Rate Id: DEFAULT
Active Checkbox: SELECTED

Attributes Tab
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Rate Distance Id: LOOKUP ELSE ESTIMATE

B. Click Finished
7 Define Rate Record A. Contract and Rate Management>>Contract Management>>
Rate Record>>New

B. Enter AM_OFFER>>Search>>Select AM_OFFER>>Finish

Lane Info Tab

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Rate Record Id: RR_MS
Source Geo Hierarchy: LOCATION
Destination Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY

Attributes Tab
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Source Geo Location Id : MLS_BANGALORE
Destination Geo Country Id: IND

Rate Costs Tab

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Click Add a Cost
Amount: 1 USD
Basis: SHIPMENT
Save

C. Click Finished
8 Define Itinerary A. Transportation Planning and Execution: Itinerary
Management>> Itinerary Manager>>New

Parameters Tab
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Itinerary Id: MLS_BAN_MUM
Perspective: ALL
Itinerary Type: ACTIVE
Source Geo Hierarchy: LOCATION
Destination Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY
Multistop Checkbox: SELECTED

Lane Definitions Tab

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Source Geo Location Id : MLS_BANGALORE
Destination Country Code Id: IND

List Legs Tab

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Click New Leg
Sequence Number: 1
Primary Check box: SELECTED
Equipment Assignment Type: OPTIMIZE EQUIPMENT
Create Single Shipment Check Box: SELECTED
Calculate Contracted Rate: SELECTED
Calculate Service Time: SELECTED
Mode Profile Id: TL
Equipment Group Profile Id: TRUCK_PROF
Save

B. Click Finished
 SIMULATION OF A MULTI-STOP SHIPMENT FLOW

1 Create Order A. Order Management>>Purchase Order>>Simple Order

Base** and Order
Release Simple Order Tab
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Order Base Id: OB_MLS1
Source Location: MLS_BANGALORE
Destination Location: MLS_MUMBAI
Ensure Radio Button on LINE ITEM
Click on Ship Unit button

Line Item Tab

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Click New Line Item button
Packaged Item Id: ITEM1_PACK
Total Weight: 1 KG
Total Volume: 1 CUFT
Total Package Count: 1
Save

B. Click Finished

C. Create another similar Order Base OB_MLS2

Source Location: MLS_BANGALORE

Destination Location: MLS_CHENNAI
Other Details same as Order Base OB_MLS1

** Order Base is not always needed. Order Releases can be

directly created and planned. (Nav: Order Management>>Order
Release>>Order Release)

D. Query the Order Base: OB_MLS1 and OB_MLS2 >Do a right click
or Click on Smart Links icon>Select Related Order Releases

E. Note Order Release Ids: OB_MLS1_001 and OB_MLS2_001

2 Plan Order Release A. Order Management>>Order Release>>Order Release
on to a Shipment
Query Order Release: OB_MLS1_001 and OB_MLS2_001
Select both the Order Releases>Actions>Create Buy
Shipments>Multi-stop
Click OK on the Equipment Selection Page
Buy Shipment is created.

Alternatively ,Bulk plan can be used for planning the Order

Releases Nav: Actions>Create Buy Shipments>Bulkplan-Buy

3 Tender the Transportation Planning and Execution: Shipment Management>>

Shipment Buy Shipments

Search Shipment
Select Shipment>Actions>Tender>Secure Resources
Query Shipment: Observe Status: SECURE_RESOURCES_TENDERED

4 Accept Tender Transportation Planning and Execution: Shipment Management>>

Buy Shipments

Search Shipment
Select Shipment>Actions>Tender>Accept Tender
Query Shipment: Observe Status: SECURE_RESOURCES_ACCEPTED

5 Create an Invoice Transportation Planning and Execution: Shipment Management>>

Buy Shipments

Search Shipment
Select Shipment>Actions>Settlement>>Create Invoice
Basic Troubleshooting
Log File would need to be reviewed to debug issues where Order Releases are not getting
planned on to Shipments. Please refer Metalink Note: 387267.1 which explains the
appropriate logging parameters that needs to be enabled and also the log generation.