Routes

Use Routes to group customers, vendors, ship-to addresses, order addresses, and locations into logical transportation corridors.

A route in Shipper TMS is not a turn-by-turn map path. It is a planning label that helps you:

  • group demand,
  • filter requests,
  • default carrier, vehicle, and driver values,
  • plan by route in Visual Scheduler.

How to work in this page

Use the route list when you maintain planning areas or recurring delivery corridors.

  1. Add one row per logical route.
  2. Use Code for a short route identifier that planners recognize.
  3. Use Description to make the route understandable in filters and planning boards.
  4. Set default carrier, vehicle, and driver only when that route normally uses the same resources.
  5. Use Scheduler Sort Order to place common routes near the top of scheduler views.
  6. Use Block for Scheduling when the route should not appear as a planning resource.
  7. Drill down from No. of Customers when you want to review customers assigned to the route.

Create a route

  1. Search for Routes.
  2. Add a new row.
  3. Fill in Code and Description.
  4. If needed, set:
    • Default Carrier No.
    • Default Vehicle No.
    • Default Driver No.
  5. Set Scheduler Sort Order if you use route-based scheduling.
  6. Enable Block for Scheduling only if the route should not appear in scheduler views.

Assign a route to master data

Set Default Route No. on:

  • Customer
  • Vendor
  • Ship-to Address
  • Order Address
  • Location

You can also set Route Sequence on the same records if the stop order usually follows a fixed sequence.

How route defaults are used

Route values flow through the process like this:

  1. The route is copied from master data to the source document.
  2. The route is copied from the source document to the Transport Request.
  3. If you set a route on a Transport Order and the carrier is still blank, the route’s default carrier, vehicle, and driver can be applied.
  4. When you run Get Transport Requests, the route can be used as a filter.