Route:

1. A route is typically referred to a shipping point (Plant) from which the goods are issued and a ship-to party
to which the goods are sent.

Route Schedule:
1. A route may consist of multiple ship-to parties before the final ship-to party of the route is reached.
2. The route schedule functionality will allow to calculate accurate delivery dates / times for the various
ship-to parties along the route.

In this example,

 There are a number of other ship-to parties exist on the same route from Atlanta to California
(See illustration). Therefore, we want to set up the route schedule functionality to calculate
accurate delivery times for these customers.

The Effect of a Route Schedule on the scheduling result in

a Sales Order
After a SD scheduling is executed, the system determines the route schedule. The system will add the specific
transit time to the goods issue time to calculate the expected arrival time at the ship-to party.

Example 1

2. Sales order is created for Ship To Party 1 (Texas) with a requested delivery date = 11/07.
3. The system searches for the appropriate route schedule for that week and determines that the goods can
be issued on 11/08.
4. System will confirm the 11/10 as Delivery date to the customer. (11/08 + 2 days = 11/10)
Example 2

1. Sales order is created for Ship To Party 3 (California) with a requested delivery date = 11/07.
2. The system searches for the appropriate route schedule for that week and determines that the goods can
be issued on 11/08.
3. System will confirm the 11/15 as Delivery date to the customer. (11/08 + 2 days + 4 Days + 1 Day = 11/15)

How Route Schedule is maintained in Cardinal.

Route Schedule Naming Convention – D40C280A 2

D40 – Shipping Point (3 Chars)

C280 – SCAC Code (4 Chars)

A – Carrier Code (2 Chars) like UPS, Fedex

2 – Day of the Week (1 Char) -> 1 (Monday) to 7 (Sunday)

Route Determination is automatically proposed for each sales document item in the Sales Order.
The GI day will always match with the Day of week in the Route Schedule (in this example it’s 2). The GI time is the
cut-off time (if ordered before 14:00 it will go in this truck).

SpecTT_days” is the number of days it takes for the truck to reach the customer. In Itinerary 10 it is blank it
means the truck reaches the Ship-to Party “20027149” same day. For the Itinerary 20 customer it reaches one
day later and also to the Itinerary 30 to 50. For the Itinerary 60 and 70 it will be reaches one more day later.