Rate Shop - Non-Operational Freight (Employee)
This topic describes the Rate Shop screen for non-operational freight (A/R or A/P) that can be accessed directly from various financial lists in Transportation Manager. Refer to "Rate Shop via Rating (Employee)" for information on the Rate Shop screen that can be accessed from the rating screens for each of the ratable entities (that is, shipment legs, shipments, trips, loads not attached to a trip, non-operational freight).
The Rate Shop screen is displayed if even if there are no eligible tariff/service combinations. However, if the non-operational freight entity is no longer eligible for rating updates, the browser will be redirected to the Routing, Rating and Scheduling screen for non-operational freight.
Initially load the screen
When the Rate Shop screen for non-operational freight is presented, the Rate Shop list will include just the tariff / service combinations that are compatible with the current commitments for carrier (A/P only), service, trailer equipment type, tractor equipment type, trailer domicile and tractor domicile for the non-operational freight.
Initially the first tariff / service combination on the list will be the one selected by the route and rate process as the preferred alternative. For A/P rating, the sequence will be established based on the "Carrier Selection" method from the Global Settings: if "Cost", sequencing will be based on computed cost; if "Performance", sequence will be based on costs that have been adjusted to reflect relative differences in Carrier Performance (Grade). For A/R rating, the sequence will be established based on the computed costs for each tariff / service combination.
The Rate Shop screen will present a separate row for each qualifying tariff / service combination. While there could potentially be multiple tractor / trailer equipment types and tractor / trailer domiciles eligible for each tariff / service combination for A/P rating, the Rate Shop screen will initially only present the preferred combination of equipment types and domiciles, where the selection within each tariff/service combination will be based on lowest cost and then priority for the equipment types. For A/R rating where there could be multiple trailer equipment types that qualify, selection will again be based on cost followed by equipment priority.
Options selection
The Options section on the Rate Shop page for non-operational freight allows user to edit the Equipment Type Selection combo box. This can be used to change the selection criteria for the Rate Shop list. Use the Refresh icon (
) in the section header to trigger reload of the Rate Shop page after modifying the value in the combo box.
Equipment Type Selections can be used to view other eligible equipment types and domiciles for a given tariff/service combination. If a value other than "Best Equipment Types" is selected, you must select exactly one tariff/service combination from the list:
- Best Equipment Types - Default. List will include the best trailer equipment type (and tractor equipment type and domiciles, if applicable) for each tariff/service combination.
- Applicable Equipment Types - If the carrier for the selected tariff/service carrier combination is domicile based, list will be updated with all eligible tractor domicile / tractor equipment type combinations for the selected tariff/service combination. The best trailer equipment type and trailer domicile are displayed for each row. If the carrier is not domicile based, the list will be loaded with all eligible trailer equipment types for the tariff/service combination.
- Applicable Trailers - If the carrier for the selected tariff/service combination is domicile based, list will be updated with all eligible trailer domicile / trailer equipment type combinations for the selected tariff/service/tractor domicile/tractor equipment type combination; otherwise, list will be loaded with all eligible trailer equipment types for the tariff/service combination (that is, same as for Applicable Equipment Types).
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