Identification of Places 

Use

During leg determination (and also as assignments of deliveries to stages are being determined), various locations must be compared to one another at many points in the component. In other words, the system checks to make sure the location defined is the same physical location that exists in the system.

This can sometimes be rather difficult, since one location can appear in the system in various ways.

A customer with the number ‘ABCD’ is created in the system. This customer’s address is Mr. Smith, 1200 Main Street, Anytown, USA 90018. A transportation connection point that refers to this customer has been entered in Customizing. A one-time customer with the same address was also entered (the same customer called up to order an express shipment and could not remember the customer number from previous orders, for example). All three of these entries describe the same physical location and should be identified as such.

Delivery 1 has a destination of customer ‘ABCD’, unloading point ‘dock door 29’; but delivery 2 has customer ‘ABCD’ and unloading point ‘dock door 1’ as its destination. These are most likely two distinct physical locations. In this case, the truck needs to go to both dock door 1 and dock door 29 at this customer’s warehouse.

Features

Location entries are analyzed by the system as follows:

The system takes the address and other important data from the location description:

- Loading point at the shipping point

- Customer’s unloading point

- Storage location at the plant

- Warehouse number

- Door for the warehouse number

- Additional information

- Name 1

- Location

- Zip code for location

- Zip code for the post office box

- Company zip code (for major customers)

- Street

- Street number

- Post office box

- Location of the post office box

- Transportation zone

- Country key

If this data is identical for two location entries, the system assumes that they are the exact same location. (Technically speaking, the system assigns a temporary number within the program for this identification. This number is then also assigned to every location that is identified with the same entries.

If this method of location comparison is not sufficient for your business scenario (if you would also like to include a phonetic comparison to allow for typing errors, for example), you can modify the analysis to fit your needs using customer enhancement ‘V56LOCID’.