Build loads and plan shipments
As part of the transportation process, companies should consolidate shipments to build loads and deliver them to their customers. Consolidating shipments will help companies lower costs as they reduce the number of shipments. As we reviewed earlier, planning the loads is the first step of the transportation process.
As an important concept, a load is a group of goods transported together. It may be from different orders or shipments, so companies must optimize their loads into the right containers to save time and money.
To do so, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management has load templates.
Load templates
We can assign load templates to new loads to give that load information about equipment and measures such as height, width, depth, and volume. We can create templates to define the capacity of a container that carries goods. For example, if we are shipping frozen food, we can use a load template for that shipment with a refrigerated container...
