Assigning a carrier

The Assign Carrier action is available only to routes with these statuses:

  • Carrier Selected
  • Tender Rejected
  • Tender Canceled
  • No Rates Found

Use the Assign Carrier action to select a carrier manually and, if required, enter freight charges and tender the route to the selected carrier for one or more routes. The Assign selection results in a Carrier Selected status. The Assign and Tender selection results in a Tendered status. The Assign Carrier action is useful when your receive a spot rate outside of TM.

After using this action, if you should attempt to select an alternate carrier, only the carrier that you select through the Assign Carrier action is available because the route is not sent through the rating and routing process to identify a ranked list of carriers.

From the Carrier Route list page, you can assign a carrier to one route or multiple carriers to multiple routes. From the Carrier Route detail page or from the Shipment Carrier Route page, you can assign a carrier to the displayed route. For the Assign and Tender selection, the carrier receive an e-mail tender notification or a notification via EDI, depending on configuration.

To assign a carrier:

  1. Select Transportation > Carrier Route.
  2. Click the Search arrow on the search toolbar to display a list of carrier routes.
    Use the filter options on the search toolbar to refine the list.
  3. Select one or more routes to assign to a carrier.
  4. Select Actions > Assign Carrier.
    The Assign Carrier dialog is displayed.
  5. Complete this information, as applicable:
    Carrier
    Specify a carrier for the route.
    Total Freight
    Specify the total freight charges for route.
    Currency
    Specify the currency associated with the total freight charges.

    When you assign a carrier to a route, you bypass rating and routing process. If you do not enter freight charges and currency information on this page, the resulting route has an assigned carrier but no charges or currency specified. You can add this information to the shipments assigned to the carrier route.

  6. Select the applicable action:
    • To assign the route to the selected carrier, select Actions > Assign.
    • To assign and tender the route to the selected carrier, select Actions > Assign & Tender.
    After you select an action, the Assign Carrier dialog is closed and you are returned to the Carrier Route list or detail page or the Shipment Carrier Route page. The carrier route status is updated to Carrier Selected or Tendered.

    From the Carrier Route detail page, you can click Messages to display the Route Messages dialog and confirm that the route is selected or tendered.