It often happens that the deliveries in a shipment are only to be assigned to a few rather than all stages of the shipment. This function is useful if a shipment stops at various locations, unloading or loading goods along the way, for example. In such a situation, not all deliveries would be included in each stage of transportation.

The system provides an algorithm that attempts to determine these assignments automatically to save you from having to do so manually.

This algorithm is triggered automatically in the following circumstances:

• When a route is entered in the shipment header
• After you carry out leg determination with category ‘0’ to ‘4’ (leg determination category ‘0’ initiates the assignment determination process only).

Assignment determination is carried out as follows:

3. If only the departure point exists in the system, the system assigns all adjoining legs to the delivery.
4. If only the destination exists in the system, all adjoining legs are assigned to the delivery (in other words, similar to step 3, only backwards).
5. If neither the departure point nor the destination exists in the system and if the delivery is a preliminary leg shipment or subsequent leg shipment, it is assigned to all legs. All other shipments with no departure point or destination in the system are only assigned to main legs. If this does not work either (because the leg indicator is not maintained, for instance), the deliveries are assigned to all legs that were created manually.
6. Now the system assigns the deliveries to border crossing points and load transfer points. The system then also checks which legs start or end at border point G, for example. All deliveries that are found in these legs are assigned to this border crossing point, since all deliveries that are shipped to this border crossing point must most likely go through customs.