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Overview
Define the right carrier for an order is an essential step for the final stage of the order life and to complete the delivery process.
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4 methods are available to select the carrier during the order treatment :
Use the order information details
Status colour Yellow title embedded Create the parcel
Status colour Yellow title embedded Use the delivery promise
Status colour Blue title Automatic Carrier assignation
Status colour Blue title Automatic
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This method is suited if all carrier information are available before the order orchestration.
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This method is suited if all carrier information are available at the moment of the parcel creation.
Use the carrier assignation 🖥️
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Principle
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If the order and parcel are created without any information on the carrier.name, the OMS runs a mechanism to automatically select the carrier based on
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☝️ The assignation mechanism is used at the moment of the parcel creation and updated at every new claim of the order.
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This method is suited if no information are available, unless the stock location is assigned for fullfilmentand especially if the carrier depends on multiple simple geographical or business parameters.
Configuration
A dedicated interface for assignation of carriers is available in the Carrier configuration page.
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The option allow to define a period date for the assignation to be active.
If not defined, the assignation will always be running.
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This action updates the computed date and expiration key steps, and defines the route to use for the shipment. |
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set_parcel_eligible_carriers in the parcel workflow. The option
forced on this action allows to overwrite the carrier given by the delivery promise, with the carrier embedded in the parcel detail (false by default)....
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This action modify the carrier in the parcel with the best one from the delivery promise and orchestration. |