When costing shipments to P&D areas to which current capacity is available, the CIS has a new freight option which can be used to calculate the overall cost impact of an additional stop.  This feature is activated by entering a .1 after the run number or location code and by entering any additional driving time, if available for that new stop, for the Drive Adjust item.

Rather than costing new freight on a light run with the current run characteristics or with marginal characteristics, which would be extremely inappropriate, the new freight indicator causes the characteristics of the entire run to be recalculated with the new stop, for the purpose of the current cost analysis.

For example, if a new pickup were being considered for run number 6, which is a light run, enter the run number as 6.1.  If it is for ZIP Code 20814, enter 20814.1  If you knew or could estimate the additional driving time this stop would cause, enter it for the Drive Adjustment.  (Otherwise, leave the adjustment at one, and only an additional between-stops time for that run will be used.)

When this shipment is costed, the system will:

1. Recalculate the stem allocation for additional freight.

 

2. Recalculate the between-stops allocations based on an additional stop.

 

3. Apply these new characteristics of the run to the shipment being costed, thus giving the shipment an appropriate share of the run costs at this new level of volume.

 (NOTE: This does not make a permanent change to the P&D run data in the CIS profile.)

Revised February, 2005

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