MULTI-STOP SCENARIO IN ORACLE TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

Bangalore,India

Truck

Bangalore,India

Bombay,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
and Corporations

A. Transportation Planning and Execution: Location

Management>>Location Manager>>New
Identification tab:
---------------------Location Id: MLS_BANGALORE
Corporation ID: AM
City: BANGALORE
Country Code: IND
Time Zone: Asia/Calcutta
Latitude: 12.95
Longitude: 77.61
Roles tab
-----------Location Role: Ship From/Ship To
Calender Id: Define calender -- Ban_Cal
Communications and Remarks tab
-----------------------------------------Communication Method: E-mail
E-mail address: xyz.com
B. Click Finished to complete Location Creation

Define Commodity ,
Item

C. Create another Location: MLS_MUMBAI and MLS_CHENNAI as per

steps above
A. Order Management>>
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

Defining Equipment
Groups and
Equipment Group
Profile

A. Asset Management>>Equipment Group Management

>>Equipment Group>>New
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

4.

Define Service
Provider

D. Click Finished
A. Contract and Rate Management>>Service 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
-----------------------------------------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
------------------------------Rate Service Id: AM_RATE
Rate Service Type: LOOKUP

Rate Service Details

-------------------------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
Offering

A. Contract and Rate Management>>Contract Management>>

Rate Offering>>New
Rate Header tab
-------------------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
--------------------Rate Distance Id: LOOKUP ELSE ESTIMATE
B. Click Finished

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
-----------------Rate Record Id: RR_MS
Source Geo Hierarchy: LOCATION
Destination Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY
Attributes Tab
------------------Source Geo Location Id : MLS_BANGALORE
Destination Geo Country Id: IND
Rate Costs Tab
-------------------Click Add a Cost
Amount: 1 USD
Basis: SHIPMENT
Save

Define Itinerary

C. Click Finished
A. Transportation Planning and Execution: Itinerary
Management>> Itinerary Manager>>New
Parameters Tab
--------------------Itinerary Id: MLS_BAN_MUM
Perspective: ALL
Itinerary Type: ACTIVE
Source Geo Hierarchy: LOCATION
Destination Geo Hierarchy: COUNTRY
Multistop Checkbox: SELECTED
Lane Definitions Tab
---------------------------Source Geo Location Id : MLS_BANGALORE
Destination Country Code Id: IND
List Legs Tab
--------------------

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

Create Order
Base** and Order
Release

A. Order Management>>Purchase Order>>Simple Order

Simple Order Tab
-----------------------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
-----------------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

Plan Order Release

on to a Shipment

A. Order Management>>Order Release>>Order Release

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

Tender the
Shipment

Transportation Planning and Execution: Shipment Management>>

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

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

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.