Shipping Carrier Setup

Transportation management > Setup > Carriers > Shipping carriers

The Shipping carriers form includes several options to set up services and rating profiles.

D365 F&SCM allows you to customize the names of your carriers and services. You must align your customized names with the carriers and services in Supply Chain Cloud.

To do this, you must first enable those services and carriers in Supply Chain Cloud

Important

Once enabled, those services and carriers automatically populate drop-down lists on the Shipping carriers form for you to select from.

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 Header

FIELDDESCRIPTION
Shipping carrierThe unique ID for the shipping carrier.
NameAn in-depth description of the shipping carrier.
Mode

The mode of transportation:

  • Air
  • Ground
  • LTL
  • Ocean
  • Rail
  • TL
 Overview

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

Activate shipping carrier

Turn on this toggle to activate this shipping carrier.

Ship Carrier Code

Designate the shipping carrier to use while processing the shipment.

The shipping carrier name is defined by the user, so this field tells Supply Chain Cloud the actual carrier.

The drop-down list is prepopulated with enabled carriers from Supply Chain Cloud.

Note

  • If no carriers are populating this list, make sure your API key is configured. See SCC Shipping Parameters for more information.
  • If your desired carrier is not displaying in this list, it is most likely not enabled in SCC.

LTL Note

Make sure you select the option with an integration name if using an LTL Rate Engine.

Activate carrier ratingTurn on this toggle to activate rating.
Theoretical container

Enter a value in this field to have the system take the total weight of the shipment and divide it into containers of this specified size.

The system will then rate these containers to get your estimate from the Rate Route Workbench.

Use SCC Theoretical Containers

Turn on this toggle to suppress the Theoretical container set above and instead use the one defined in Supply Chain Cloud.

Important

You must have a rate shop container set up in Supply Chain Cloud to use this feature. See Container Types for more information.

Enable Broker Pricing

Turn on this toggle to indicate that the carrier can be configured to return multiple results for a single carrier service when rate shopping.

All other fields in these sections are optional.

 Services

Click New on the Services section toolbar to create a new line for each carrier service.

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

Carrier service

The unique ID for the carrier service.

Ship Carrier Service Code

This field is used by Supply Chain Cloud to designate the specific carrier service to use while processing.

This list is populated by all carrier services enabled for the selected carrier.

Choose a carrier service from this drop-down list to automatically populate the External code field.

Note

If carrier services are not populating this drop-down list:

  • make sure your API key is configured
  • make sure a Ship Carrier Code is specified on the carrier (you must set the header value before the service value) 

See SCC Shipping Parameters for more information.

Name

An in-depth description of the carrier service.

Transportation method

Select the mode of transit the service utilizes from this drop-down list (e.g., Air, Ground, Rail, etc.)

Mode of delivery

An auto-populated name based on carrier and service.

External code

The carrier's code for the transportation service being used.

This is automatically populated by Supply Chain Cloud when the Ship Carrier Service Code is selected.

Include Invoice

Select this checkbox to generate a paperless invoice for FedEx or UPS shipments.

Support Confirmation

Select this checkbox to re-rate the shipment upon confirmation. 

Important

This feature should not be used with broker pricing.

Suppress Packing

Select this checkbox to prevent the rate engine from triggering a Ship request once packing is complete.

Note

This feature allows you to configure a carrier service to support LTL rating. It affects how Supply Chain Cloud rates within the system.

 Addresses

You can set up an address for the shipping carrier.

 Rating Profiles

Rating profiles are unique to each individual shipping carrier. They associate the shipping carrier to the rate engine.

Click New on the Rating profiles section toolbar to create at least one rating profile per shipping carrier. Multiple rating profiles can be created if they are site/warehouse specific or have certain effective periods.

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

Rating profile

The unique ID for the carrier's rating profile.

Name

An in-depth description of the rating profile.

Rate engine

Select the rate engine to be used with the parcel or LTL shipping carrier.

See Rate Engine Setup for more information.

Important

For LTL Rate Engines, select Support Confirmation and Suppress Packing when configuring your services.

 Ship

You can add container and shipment reference fields to labels, if desired.

Note

Please check with individual carriers to see how many reference fields are accepted: Label Reference Fields

Select the value you want to display on the label from the drop-down list for each reference field.

Note

  • See Reference Fields for information on creating a modification to add a reference field not listed.
  • If you have an existing modification, we recommend that you test whether these settings cause any impact to the mod.


Next Steps

See Carrier Groups Setup if you want to set up a group of carrier services that can be easily selected when rate shopping. 

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