The system uses ship dates set up in Shipping Schedule Maintenance, in coordination with receiving days and load, transit, and unload lead times defined in Transportation Network Maintenance, to calculate default ship dates for intersite requests. When a shipping schedule is not defined, the ship days from the transportation network are used instead.

Ship dates in Shipping Schedule Maintenance initially default from the ship days set up in Transportation Network Maintenance for the specified transportation mode and site combination. You should modify the detailed shipping schedule to consider any exceptions to these defaults.