A transportation routing plan designed to maximize fleet utilization.

The transportation mode specifies how a product is transported, for example, by road, rail, sea, or air.

Transportation Planning is part of the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) application and is used for medium to long-term planning. It enables the transportation planner to optimally d [..]

Person or business that transports goods. Different transportation types can be used: Road, rail, air or sea.

Assignment of planned shipments to transportation service providers.

Location at which the goods are loaded from one vehicle to another; for example, a distribution center in the case of cross-docking.

All orders that automatically become shipments without running through the Optimizer. These are orders of a size defined as being too small for the Optimizer or of a size defined as exceeding what cou [..]

Part of the loading space of a vehicle resource (vehicle or trailer).

Profile that specifies how many compartments and which type of compartments a vehicle resource (vehicle or trailer) consists of.

Filter with which you can restrict the application of a function to one or more orders.

Procedure that defines whether order items, delivery items, or order schedule lines are to be consolidated and how they are to be consolidated.

Shipment type where the transportation service provider (TSP) agrees to take on a completely new shipment straight after the completion of a shipment.

Rule that determines which actions are to be performed for planned shipments when the corresponding orders are changed in the ERP system.

Profile that contains costs and constraints for transportation planning.

Profile containing settings for optimization in the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) component.

Vehicle resource that cannot move by itself.

Round trip for which one location is used as the start or destination location for all other locations.

A shipment that contains both inbound and outbound shipments.

Profile that contains control parameters for dynamic route determination.

Transportation lane between two locations within a transportation zone that is generated during the optimization run.

Class of a vehicle; for example, ship or aircraft.

Grouping of multiple means of transport.

Vehicle to which a means of transport with a schedule is assigned.

Means of transport with a schedule.

Maximum period of time that a vehicle is permitted to stay at a location.

Table containing deliveries that were exluded from planning in the component Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS).

Simplified saving of a shipment to exclude the deliveries assigned to the shipment from planning.

ID that groups the important attributes to do with the transportation of a product. Each product is assigned to a transportation group.

Stop made during a shipment. This refers, not to a rest break, but to one of several destinations within a shipment.

Transportation lane between a transportation zone and a plant that is maintained by the user, for example.

Transportation lane that is maintained from one location to the same location.

Document with information about the materials to be delivered which the OEM sends to the supplier and the freight forwarder.

Size of the packets into which the items of an order are split by delivery creation when the order split is used.

Means of transport that cannot move by itself.

Removal of the assignment between an order and a planned shipment. If this was the only order assigned, the system deletes the planned shipment. The order can be rescheduled on this planned shipment, [..]

Location from master data. This location is used as a depot. A depot is used for parking a supplier's vehicles, and this is the location from which the vehicles depart and return to at the end of [..]

Planning object in the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) component that represents the quantities to be delivered with shipments, and that forms the basis of planning and optimization [..]

Transportation lane that is maintained from a transportation zone to the same transportation zone.

Landmark that helps the driver to find the route to take, for example, a bridge or crossroads.

Limit value as of which an order quantity or outbound delivery quantity is split.

Combination of parameters that the system takes into account when it creates freight units.

Limit above which the items of an order are split into packets by delivery creation when using the order split.

Trip for which several target locations are delivered to from one source location (depot; for example, a warehouse) or for which collections are made from several source locations for one target locat [..]

Lock a planned shipment for planning. The planned shipment gets the status "Invalidated" and a red light. If the planned shipment had already been tendered, the system sends a cancelation ma [..]

Period of time between the end of the last loading or unloading activity and transportation start.

Vehicle Scheduling is part of the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) application and is used for short-term planning and route determination. Vehicle Scheduling enables the transportat [..]

Grouping that consists of one vehicle and at least one trailer.

Resource that is used in the Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS) component.