How to define Freight Carriers

This tutorial will explain you the steps on defining freight carriers in the system and assigning it to the required inventory organization in your company.

Select Order Management super Responsibility

Navigate to Setup-->Shipping-->Freight Carriers, Cost Types-->Freight Carriers 

Click on the open button

Select the Freight Carriers option

Click on the open button

Enter the Freight Carriers name, short name and other details one by one 

Enable the Active check box and Generic check box, if applicable

Optionally, enter the standard carrier alpha code (SCAC).

Optionally, enter the carrier's Default Currency.

Note: The Default Currency is used in conjunction with Oracle Transportation Execution's freight rating engine, if Oracle Transportation Execution is installed.

Move to services tab select the Service Level for this carrier.

Examples of Service Level include: next day air, ground, and next day air early AM.

Select the Mode (of transportation) for the carrier.

After you enter each Service Level and Mode combination, Oracle Shipping Execution assigns a ship method and displays it in the Ship Method field. The format of the generated ship method is --, for example, Truck-LTL-Ground.
Note: You can change the name of the generated Ship Method after it has been generated as long as it is unique. 

Select Enable if you will be assigning this ship method to organizations and to deliveries in Oracle Shipping Execution.

Select Web Enable if you will be assigning this ship method in Oracle iStore.

Save your work.

Select the Organization assignments for assigning the transporter to inventory organization

Select Assigned to assign the ship method to the organization(s) that use it.


You can assign the ship method to more than one organization.

Note: If you want to assign the ship method to all of your organizations, click Assign All to have all organizations' Assigned field selected. If you want to begin again with your assignments, click Unassign All to have all organizations' Assigned field cleared. 

Click on the done button

Save your work.