To take the last suggestion one step further, and this may or may not
work for your business, is looking at the geographical hierarchies of
the rates in question. If the more expensive rates have a more specific
geo hierarchy (you determine the hierarchy as well), they will be chosen
over the less expensive rates. It's easier to maintain and trouble
shoot later.



Marnie Schultz
Logistics Operations - Center of Excellence*Kraft Foods Global,
Inc.*(60 285-6229*Marnie.Schultz (AT) Kraft (DOT) com



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From: owner-otmsig (AT) solutionbeacon (DOT) net
[mailtowner-otmsig (AT) solutionbeacon (DOT) net] On Behalf Of Rick v100
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:28 PM
To: otmsig (AT) solutionbeacon (DOT) net
Subject: Re: Using Routing Rules

There are several ways in OTM to solve this problem.
You could specify the carrier on the leg in the itinerary, you could use
rate factors, you could set up the planning parameters to look at other
factors besides cheapest cost.

All depends on how it will impact planning on other orders.

Rick

--- OTMSIG <otmsig (AT) otmfaq (DOT) com> wrote:

>
> I would be looking at rate quality factors for this scenario. I have
> used them in a few implementations and they should work fine for what
> you are looking to achieve.
>
> I am not sure that routing rules were ever designed to accomplish this
> kind of operational planning scenario.
>
> An alternative, if you know that each order coming out of a location
> should be shipped with a specified service provider, is to enforce
> that as a constraint on the order release. You could do that with a
> Direct SQL update agent at the time of order release / order base
> creation.
>
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