Recording Results of A/R Consolidation

If the amount for the consolidated rating request for the Rating Consolidation Group is less than the sum of the amounts for each shipment in the group rated separately, the savings realized from the consolidation will be distributed to the individual shipments in the Rating Consolidation Group. Note that rating for the consolidated rating must have been successful before application of savings will be considered. If the rating failed for any reason, the amounts for individual shipments will not be impacted. Failure to successfully rate the consolidated shipment would be treated in the same way as a successful rating request that did not produce a lower rate: the results of the consolidated rating will be ignored and vouchers will be created in a status of Eligible.

Assigning Results to Individual Shipments

For Tariff Charges defined at the Container Level, no distribution of charges will be required. Charges associated with each container will be associated with the shipment to which the container belongs.

For Tariff Charges defined as being Multi-Freight Class, the charges associated with each freight class as well as deficit weight will be distributed back to each shipment in the group based on each shipment's percentage of the total weight across all freight classes.

Charges associated with Tariff Charges rated at shipment level for pieces, pallets, weight, volume, order value or declared value will be pro-rated by each shipment's percentage of the rating unit in effect for that Tariff Charge.

Charges associated with each Tariff Charge rated based on "Manually Input" units will be pro-rated by each shipment's percentage of that specific Charge Code.

Charges based on distance or freight amount will be pro-rated based on the percentage of total weight represented by each of the shipments in the Rating Consolidation Group.

Charges for Options will be pro-rated only to the shipments requiring the option.

Charges incurred at the Service Level will be pro-rated to each shipment in the Rating Consolidation Group based on each shipment's percentage of the total weight of all shipments in the group.

When a reduction in charges has been identified, the modifications will be recorded by creating additional Charge Details. The Charge Detail Type for these entries will be "Adjustment A/R Consolidation". Changes in cost for shipments will be recorded at the Charge Code level. Therefore, once the costs have been pro-rated from the Rating Consolidation Group back to the individual shipments, the old and new costs will be compared on a line by line basis. Wherever a difference is identified, an adjustment entry will be triggered at the Charge Code level. If change in cost is actually at the Service Level, then the "Adjustment A/R Consolidation" type entries in the Charge Detail table will also be at Service Level.

When consolidation opportunities are identified, in addition to generating entries in the Charge Detail table, the Charged Amount in the Shipment table will be reduced to reflect the reduction in amount associated with the shipment.

Rating Consolidation Number

If consolidation is enabled, Rating Consolidation Number will be a sequential number assigned to each shipment in a Rating Consolidation Group. Reference Number Type "RCN" (that is, Rating Consolidation Number) has been reserved for this purpose. The system-defined Reference Number Qualifier that refers to Reference Number Type "RCN" is active generically for all customers at the shipment level. The level assigned to these reference numbers is "Shipment". If the A/R Consolidation process did not identify any savings for the set of shipments, the reference number representing the Rating Consolidation Number will be removed from each shipment in the Rating Consolidation Group.

The Rating Consolidation Number is presented as a data element on the same screen where the Charge Details for a shipment are presented.

This corresponds to the Manifest Consolidation Number assigned as part of the Carrier Manifest Generation process.

If an entry is created for the A/R Voucher in the Voucher Held Transactions table, the Rating Consolidation Number will be recorded in the table as one of the data elements. This number is used by the Invoicing module to determine whether a voucher can be invoiced; if any of the vouchers referencing a Rating Consolidation Number are on hold, then none of those vouchers will be considered eligible for A/R Invoice Generation.