[Srinu]

Hi All

Can anyone help us in understanding the Role of Early/Late Pickup Dates and the Early/Late Delivery Dates present in the Order Release Instructions in the Order Base.

Is Order Release performed both at the time of Pickup, from origin for Transportation, and at the time of Delivery, to Destination.

[AlejandroBarba]

Hi Srinu,

Those time windows come into place when planning a shipment that must have be picked up and delivered within the time windows set at the origin and destination.

These time windows work in conjunction with the field "HOLD AS LATE AS POSSIBLE" in the "Planning Parameter Set". In OTM 4.5 the default is set to False, meaning that the Order Release will be planned in order to meet the delivery time window at the first opportunity. When you set it to True, the order release is not planned to be picked up until the last moment but still making it on time to the destination. I would recommend picking the first approach if your priority is service but if your priority is reducing cost, pick the second approach.

Hope this helps,

Alejandro B.

[bob_romijn]

Hi,

THe dates you can give (they are optional) will be used in conjunction with the planning parameter as mentioned by Alejandro AND the date emphasis as set in the order release/order base.
If set to "BOTH" (default) OTM will always respect the dates given. There are a lot of combinations you can think of here:

- Only early and late delivery date: Order will be planned to respect the delivery dates and the pickup date will be adjusted likewise.

- Early pickup date and late delivery date is populated: The shipment built will leave at the early pickup date.

etc, etc.

If you have multiple rates and transit times in OTM, OTM will only select the cheapest rate which still can respect the dates to deliver it on time.

Hope this helps a bit.

Best regards,

Bob

[Srinu]

Hi BOB

THanks for your time and reply

I have got the answer of the Dates which is the first half but for the second half (Is Order Release performed both at the time of Pickup, from origin for Transportation, and at the time of Delivery, to Destination.) i wish to know its relevance to the Order Release i.e. how this fields if entered will impact the order release.

[bob_romijn]

Hi Srinu,

I hope this is the explanation you're looking for:

If you populate all dates (early, late, pickup and delivery) it will respect all dates.
Example:
Your pickup time window is telling you to pick it up at day 1 (early and late pickup date or on the same day but tim eis different).
You delivery time window is telling you to deliver from day 10 to day 12.
Your transit time is 3 days.

A shipment is build to start at day1 and will be delivered at day 10. Even that the transit time is shorter.
In this case you can still move around with the delivery date (via shipment actions) to day 11 or 12 without getting a warning of invalidness.

I have to say that this is the case with the "Date Emphasis" at BOTH.

Help says:

Date Emphasis governs how important the date sets are. The options are BOTH, SHIP, DELV, PAST, NONE.
Choose BOTH to look at the available dates and the delivery dates.
Choose SHIP to look at the available dates and set the delivery dates out to infinity.
Choose DELV to look at the delivery dates and consider the available dates to be now.

PAST is acting differently and can have "unexpected" results. Here you always want to have dates populated, otherwise your shipment will be built a year back.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

[oliver]

"PAST" allows you to plan orders with a pickup/delivery window in the past, where past means before "now" (date&time).
Quite handy if you have to e.g. analyze how planing would have looked if you had all orders for the last couple of weeks together etc.

Rgds
Oliver