[engyeowkee]

Hi all,

Hope everyone is well. Got a question here about auto tendering. Is is possible in OTM to setup an agent for Auto Tendering based on Sevice Provider's tender cutoff time? The reason for waiting to tender until the Service Provider's cutoff time is because we would like to consolidate as many orders onto shipments as possible. Has anyone tried or encountered such setup requirement before? Thanks for your help!

Kee

[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.

[engyeowkee]

Thanks bmj_23! We like the options you've suggested, although we're not familiar with 5.5 but will look into the consolidated functionality. Of course we would appreciate anyone who's used this feature to share your experience with us.

On the same line of logic as your option 1, we're thinking of using the shipment departure time as the gauge for e.g. run the sercure resource process 6-7hours before shipment departure time as a replacement for service provider's cut off time since we don't where to store that piece of information.

Thanks again!

Kee

[bmj_23]

Good luck Kee, post an outline of the final solution on this forum to share with other members when you get a chance.