Future Ship Date

Owned by Megan Stanage (Unlicensed)
Oct 28, 2024
5 min read

You can set a future ship date with several carriers, and you can adjust that date based on time zone, carrier cutoff, and non-shipping date settings.

Note

This feature is not available for Australia Post, OnTrac, UPS, or UPS APIs.

Sustainability: Reduce Carbon Footprint

  • Reduce the number of deliveries to limit carbon emissions.
  • Consolidate shipments into fewer containers to reduce the ecological impact of excess packaging.

See Sustainability with Supply Chain Cloud for more information.

Hierarchy

The records with the most level of detail will be given highest priority, from most specific to least specific:

  1. Origin location with carrier and service
  2. Origin location with carrier but no selected service
  3. Carrier service
  4. Carrier

Settings

Origin Locations


 Create/Edit Origin Location

Create/Edit Origin Location

Click New or Edit to create or edit the location record for your warehouse.


Select an option from the Time Zone drop-down list. This time zone is used when setting up carrier cutoffs. 


Enter the value in the Host System Reference field that corresponds to your Warehouse in D365 F&SCM.

See Future Ship Date Setup for more information.

 Carrier Cutoffs

Carrier Cutoffs 

Click Carrier Cutoffs to create or edit cutoff records for the location.


Select a carrier (and optionally a carrier service) from the drop-down list; only carriers with Automatically Adjust Ship Date enabled on the carrier configuration page are available.

Select from the additional options to configure cutoff parameters for the selected carrier:

  • Cutoff Time: The time the carrier picks up its shipments at this location. Any shipments processed after this time will be scheduled for the next shipping day. This cutoff time respects the time zone set for the origin location. 

  • Saturday Pickup: Turn on this toggle to enable Saturday as a shipping day for this carrier and this location.
  • Sunday Pickup: Turn on this toggle to enable Sunday as a shipping day for this carrier and location.

Note

The Saturday Pickup and Sunday Pickup toggles are used to determine the next shipping date only. They do not trigger accessorials or contact carriers about weekend pickups.

 Non-Shipping Dates

Non-Shipping Dates

Click Non-Shipping Dates to select dates, such as holidays, where no shipments will go out.

When calculating future ship dates, this origin location will skip over non-shipping dates and select the next available date, depending on your carrier configuration settings (e.g., is Saturday or Sunday a ship day, etc.).


Click New to create a non-shipping date that defaults to the current date or double-click a calendar square to create a non-shipping date for that day.

Click Save. 


Your non-shipping date now appears on the calendar. Hover over the record and click the X to remove the non-shipping date.

Carrier Configuration


 Carrier Configuration

Configure the fields in the top section of the page at the carrier level.


Turn on the Automatically Adjust Ship Date toggle to enable the carrier to adjust the ship date based on time zone, carrier cutoff, and non-shipping date settings.

Set the Cutoff Time field to the time the carrier picks up its shipments. Any shipments processed after this time will be scheduled for the next shipping day.

Note

At the carrier level, this field respects Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). 

For example: FedEx picks up at 6 PM UTC. Anything processed after 6 PM UTC is set to ship the next day. 

Turn on the Saturday Pickup and/or Sunday Pickup toggles to the day(s) as a shipping day(s) for this carrier. These toggles are used to determine the next shipping date only; they do not trigger accessorials or contact carriers about weekend pickups.

 Carrier Service Configuration

Configure the fields in this section at the carrier service level.


Turn on the Override Cutoff toggle to override the cutoff time, Saturday pickup, and Sunday pickup configurations in the carrier section at the top of the page for this service.

Set the Cutoff Time field to the time the carrier picks up its shipments for this service. Any shipments processed after this time will be scheduled for the next shipping day.

Note

At the carrier service level, this field respects Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). 

For example: FedEx picks up at 6 PM UTC. Anything processed after 6 PM UTC is set to ship the next day. 

Turn on the Saturday Pickup and/or Sunday Pickup toggles to the day(s) as a shipping day(s) for this carrier service. These toggles are used to determine the next shipping date only; they do not trigger accessorials or contact carriers about weekend pickups.

Example

It is 8 PM on Friday, July 9, before a holiday weekend. You want to view the next available USPS shipping date.

Confirm your carrier settings to make sure the system can calculate the next valid shipping date.

  • Carrier Cutoffs: The USPS cutoff time is 7 PM and there is no Saturday or Sunday pickup. 



  • Non-Shipping Dates: Monday, July 12, is marked as a non-shipping date because of a holiday.



The system will run a series of checks:

  • Is it past the cutoff time on Friday? Yes - check next day.
  • Is Saturday a valid ship date? No - check next day.
  • Is Sunday a valid ship date? No - check next day. 
  • Is Monday a valid ship date? No - holiday - check next day.
  • Is Tuesday a valid ship day? Yes. 

Tuesday is the next valid shipping date.


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