Category 1: According to the Itinerary 

Leg determination category 1 generates a sequence of locations that links together the departure points and destinations for the deliveries without gaps.

The system proceeds as follows:

  1. The system connects the departure points of the deliveries onto one another (Example: the truck drives from shipping point 0001 to shipping point 0002, then to shipping point 0003). The sequence is set in such a way that the deliveries that need to be unloaded first at the customer are loaded onto the truck last.

    2. Exception 1:

    The shipment document already contains manually entered legs (all manually created legs and legs that originate from a route). If the departure point of a delivery is already mentioned in these legs, it must be included here once again.

    Exception 2:

    If you have already specified a particular sequence through a previous leg determination, the system will take this.

  2. The system now connects up all the manual legs.
  3. Finally, all the destinations of the deliveries are connected up. The sequence matches the sequence of the deliveries in the shipment (the so-called itinerary).

Exception:

If a target location is already mentioned in the manually created legs, it is not added on to the leg, but omitted.

You can modify the sequence of locations determined in this way in a dialog box. This can be important, for example, if the truck should not to drive to all the shipping points first, the reason being that there are customers on the routes between the shipping points, and these need to be driven to. This dialog box always appears if you execute leg determination on the overview screen for the stages.

However, if you set the status Planned for the general header data (this means that leg determination will be initiated), this dialog box only appears if absolutely necessary. This is usually the case if the general data is not unique or has inconsistencies. In this way, expedient processing is not hindered by a superfluous dialog box.

The 5 deliveries in your shipment depart from shipping point 0001, 0002, and 0003. The system cannot know the sequence in which these should be driven to (since the sequence of the deliveries only defines in general the sequence in which the destinations, that is, the customers, should be driven to). In this case, a dialog box appears.

The deliveries in your shipment specify a particular itinerary (for example, first to customer K1, then K2, K3, and so on).

If you have also specified a route in the shipment, and the transportation connection points of this route also point to the customers, then it could be that a different sequence was specified in the route. In this case, the system needs confirmation regarding which itinerary is to be taken (the system proposes the itinerary given in the route).

Now the system generates legs from the sequence of locations defined (for example, A, B, C, D).

The legs that were created are filled in with data in accordance with step 6 in Automatic Leg Determination, and border points and load transfer points, as in step 7.

Finally, the system determines which deliveries are assigned to which legs. See also Automatic Assignment of Deliveries.

You have created a shipment document that contains three deliveries. The deliveries are to be picked up from two different shipping points and delivered to three different ship-to parties. The deliveries are listed in the following sequence in the shipment document:

Delivery

Shipping point

Destination

1

San Francisco

Denver

2

San Francisco

Dallas

3

Phoenix

Oklahoma City

On the basis of the sequence of the deliveries in the shipment document, the system creates a main leg from Phoenix to Denver, one preliminary leg from San Francisco to Phoenix, one subsequent leg from Denver to Dallas, and a second from Dallas to Oklahoma City. The illustration shows how the deliveries are assigned:

If the manually specified leg management has gaps, these are now closed.