Configuring pickup detection

Pickups can be detected automatically or manually.

How to configure automatic pickup detection

  1. Go to Master data – Carrier configurations to open the carrier configuration.
  2. Under Strategy for detecting pickup – Find pickup, select Different. Then select the relevant strategy and possibly an additional date criterion. You will find helpful information in the tables below.
  3. If you want new shipping orders to always be assigned to the oldest open pickup, select the strategy Different – Per shipping point, then the date criterion of None. The dispatch date of the shipping order is now disregarded. The oldest open pickup is used.

  4. Save the carrier configuration.

Strategies for detecting pickups

Meaning

Per shipping point

Carrier pickups are automatically generated for each shipping point. Currently, it is possible to have only one open pickup per shipping point.

Per shipping point/account

Carrier pickups are automatically generated by shipping point and account. Currently, it is possible to have only one open pickup per shipping point / account.

Per shipping point / service provider address

Carrier pickups are automatically generated by shipping point and carrier address. Currently, it is possible to have only one open pickup per shipping point / carrier address.

Per shipping point / service

Carrier pickups are automatically generated by shipping point and service. Currently, it is possible to have only one open pickup per shipping point / service.

Date criterion

Meaning

Standard

The dispatch date of the shipping order must be less than or equal to the pickup date.

Same day

The dispatch date of the shipping order must equal the pickup date.

None

The dispatch date of the shipping order is not evaluated. The oldest open pickup is used.

How to configure manual pickup detectiong

  1. Go to Master data – Carrier configurations to open the carrier configuration.
  2. Under Strategy for detecting pickup – Find pickup, select Different – None to disable automatic strategy detection.
  3. Save the carrier configuration.

When a shipping order has been assigned to a pickup, the shipping order status changes to “Assigned.”

For information on how to add shipping orders to a pickup manually, see: Assigning shipping orders to pickups manually.