[bmj_23]

There are probably a few options that you could explore:

1. Create a Tender Shipments process which runs every hour for example and which is based on a saved query that returns only those shipments where the time between the calculated shipment start time and carriers cut off time is less than x hours.

You will need to check where in the data model you are going to store that cut off time. I am not sure whether thati is stored on the service provider, rate offering, rate record, rate service etc. It may only be available for certain types of carriers e.g. LTL and Parcel, but not TL.

2. Investigate the consolidated tender functionality. This was a new feature in 5.5 and may allow you to bulk up the individual tenders that fall within your criteria and send it out to the service provider as a single tender at the appropriate time in the process.

3. If you wanted to do it on individual shipmeny by shipment basis, you could add a saved condition to the automation agent that runs the secure resources process when an order is added to a shipment, but uses the same logic in point 1.