Understanding sequential tendering
TM uses sequential tendering to tender a route automatically to the next ranked carrier when the previous carrier rejects the tender or the tender time-out period expires for the previous carrier. Sequential tendering applies to tendering that occurs after the initial tender.
To use sequential tendering, you must set up this information:
- Sequential tendering
configuration rules that determine when to activate sequential tendering for
the carrier route
- Sequential Tender after Carrier Reject: Specify yes to activate sequential tendering to the next ranked carrier after a carrier rejects the tender.
- Sequential Tender after Tender Timeout: Specify yes to activate sequential tendering to the next ranked carrier after a carrier's tender time-out period expires.
- Sequential Tender Same Carrier: Specify yes to allow a carrier to remain eligible to receive subsequent tenders of the route after the carrier rejects a tender the first time or the carrier's tender time-out period expires.
- Tender time-out values in carrier contracts that define the time-out period for the tenders associated with the carrier route and the default tender time-out value in configuration rules for use on any carriers manually assigned to a route
- Routing guide rules to control the ranking of carriers and provide information to determine which carrier receives the next tender
- Routing guide maximum sequential tender limits to define the number of carriers from the ranked list that receive a tender in the sequential tendering process