Restrict Freight weight in Freight Order before assigning Vehicle Resource

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can we restrict that Freight Order should not contain more than a specified weight when it is being created against ECC Orders automatically. So that freight order does not accept ECC orders after its weight capacity is reached.

*Please note that the Vehicle resource belongs to the LSP and that has not being assigned yet to the freight order, otherwise Vehicle capacity could have been considered.

Thanks and Regards,

Vikas Chhabra

[agentry_src]

I would take a look at the FUBR (Freight Unit Building Rule) to see whether you can control the maximum weight per Freight Unit/Order with the Split Quantity. I am not sure this will work with automatic Freight Order generation if you are using the Direct Ship Option settings. But that is one place to look.

Regards,

Mike

[former_member626053]

Hi Michael,

Using the max wt/split qty in the FUBR will be splitting the FOs if their weight is more than that but we want the system to somehow restrict that.

Regards

Sanjeev

[agentry_src]

How about setting a max weight and disabling the split capability? Also still in the FUBR.

Not sure if that would prevent the Freight Order from accepting the FU. You may be better off putting the restriction back at the Sales Order side in ECC.

Regards,

Mike

[former_member626053]

Hi Michael

Let me explain the requirement in a little brief way.

We have sales orders for customer wherein there is one sales order each for 29000 kg (this will always be for 29000kg single sales order)and each SO triggers>OBTR>FO.So if i try to restrict the same in ECC i would try to restrict that in weight but my sales order individually doesnt exceeds this limit. Its only if i see collectively (lets say 3 sales orders i.e. 3 x 29000kg) they exceed it.

So i need to model a way that for ex the user is only allowed to punch in 3 sales orders a day(due to the capacity of the carrier/limit of shipping point to handle deliveries,etc) and if tries to punch the 4 th one he is stopped,warned,etc. This is just a concept.

I would be highly grateful if you can share your idea about this.

Thanks

[agentry_src]

I think that you would have to put a limitation on resource availability into your planning profile. In other words, the specified carrier only has three trucks, so only three Freight Orders can be planned per day. I think you should look at the capacity selection portion of the planning profile. There may be other ways to set such a limit, but I would start there.

Regards,

Mike

[former_member203115]

I agree with Mike. To elaborate on his comments (ok, my interpretation): if there are more sales orders than there is shipping capacity then Mike's approach would alert a transportation planner that there is a shipping capacity shortatage (unallocated / unassigned Freight Units). Granted there would be no explicit "alert" as to this fact going to your customer service folks working the ECC side (other than their constantly checking sales order delivery status - pretty ugly).

My question: does the customer want more than you can ship? Or is this "excessive" demand based on product shortages? In other words - if there is a product shortage you are better off attacking this through your ECC availability checking / MRP functionality (yes, it is far from perfect). If this is strictly a shipping capacity issue then Mike's suggestion holds - and then you have a communication problem between your transportation planners and your customer service folks (and your customers).

Just my 2 cents....

Mac McLarin

[former_member626053]

Hi Mac/Michael

Thanks a lot for sharing your valauble inputs. But in my case the client doesnt want to do any planning stuff. I mean they need the system to generate the auto FOs from OBTRs provided that somehow this requirement can be mapped.

Its just like they dont want to do planning themselves but they want the system to consider these kind of constraints.As if you dont want to create FUs and do planning but create FOs and then come back and let the system do some sort of planning automatically.

Thanks