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Transportation
Who moves it, what they charge, the instruction they are given, and where it has got to.
In Supply Chain → Transportation · 11 screens
| Screen | Kind | What it is | Columns | Fields | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carriers | List | Who moves it. A carrier IS a supplier as far as payables is concerned, so a freight invoice posts against the supplier record rather than into a second ledger. | 11 | 26 | 0 |
| Carrier Services | List | What a carrier sells. "UPS" is not a service; "UPS 2nd Day Air" is, and it is the thing that has a transit time and a cutoff. | 10 | 16 | 0 |
| Transport Lanes | List | Origin region to destination region, by mode. The unit a rate is quoted on and the unit a spend analysis is done on. | 11 | 22 | 0 |
| Freight Classes | List | The NMFC scale. Density, stowability, handling and liability decide it, and it is the single biggest driver of an LTL price. | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Freight Tariffs | List | A price agreement with a carrier. The rate basis is what lets one engine price parcel, LTL and truckload: three different arithmetics, one lane comparison. | 12 | 19 | 0 |
| Accessorial Charges | List | What a carrier charges for beyond moving the goods. Half a freight bill is usually these, and an accrual that ignores them is wrong by half. | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| Freight Orders | List | The instruction to a carrier: collect here, deliver there, these stops in this order. Tendered, accepted, refused, offered to the next one down. | 12 | 30 | 3 |
| Rate Shopping | List | What came back when several carriers were asked. Kept rather than thrown away: "why did we ship this on the expensive one" is a question somebody asks three weeks later. | 10 | 8 | 1 |
| Routes | List | The drawn line and the plan behind it. Sequencing the stops is nearest-neighbour with time windows pulling a stop forward: crude, fast, and typically within a fifth of optimal on a delivery round. | 11 | 21 | 1 |
| Tracking Events | Read-only list | What the carrier told us, when. The evidence behind an on-time-delivery figure, normalized so a dashboard does not have to know that UPS says "I" and FedEx says "IT". | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Carrier Scorecard | Read-only list | Computed rather than typed: what each carrier moved, what it cost, how much of it arrived on time, and how often their invoice was wrong. | 11 | 0 | 0 |