Consolidation is a way of generating a tariff. For instance based on the loading date. In that case consolidation means adding up all goods based on loading date before finding a volume related price, instead of finding a price per order.
Through consolidation shipments from multiple sales orders can get a tariff like they are one sales order. This is done by the consolidation method which is linked to a debtor.
In the screen shipment consolidation you can see which shipments have been consolidated. The appserver performs the consolidation, after which the income shifting is set back to the different shipments.
For customer X you have set the consolidation method to unloading city and unloading date.
Every shipment you enter for this debtor that has the same unloading place + unloading date will be consolidated and shares the same consolidation number. This can be seen on the shipment (leg). On the screen Shipment consolidation this also can be monitored.
When the consolidation is done periodically through the app server, the calculated tariff will be redistributed on the different shipments. The result usually will be a lower profit.
The benefit of this consolidation is that one can work with a stop tariff for 1 day.
Shipments with different loading places, but all destined for 1 unloading location and 1 customer, can now separately be tariffed.
To have the consolidation be performed automatically through the app server, action 612 has to be added.
Go to
F11 -> Consolidation method or
Main files -> Transport -> Transport extra -> Consolidation method
Here you set the method to consolidate with. Shipment consolidation is performed over the transport bookings. Transpas can then consolidate shipments from multiple bookings. With the total of those consolidated shipments the tariff is determined, in stead of calculated this for each shipment separately.
A consolidation method that is oftend used is by unloading city and unloading date:
In this table all possible fields are listed upon which you can consolidate. Through the consolidation methods these fields can be linked, so that a method is made which can be used to consolidate shipments.
A consolidation method is linked to a debtor, on the sub tab sheet Transport parameters of the tab sheet Transport.
Shipments which are entered after that using this customer / debtor, are consolidated based on this method. This process can be viewed in the screen Shipment consolidations.