Use Lane Maintenance (4.15.1.1) to define a shipping lane or a dock.

A shipping lane and a dock are locations. Typically shipping lanes are locations to which staff bring all boxes for an order, customer, or carrier. Docks are locations where staff load the boxes onto trucks. The loading dock includes various components, including platforms where goods are stacked, ramps for truck loading, and so on. Shipping lanes and docks can also be dedicated areas where you process orders in a specific way; for example, for a specific carrier type. The system considers shipping lanes and docks when it processes orders for a wave.

Before you define a shipping lane or a dock, you must set them up as locations in Warehouse Location Maintenance (4.3.13). For shipping lanes, you also specify the capacity in Location Maintenance. Warehouse Location Maintenance (4.3.13), Shipping Lane shows a shipping lane defined as a location.

Docks are typically in a functional IRG and do not require capacity specifications. In Warehouse Location Maintenance, you should define the Storage Type for the dock as Truck; see Warehouse Location Maintenance (4.3.13), Storage Type Field.

Lane Maintenance (4.15.1.1), Dock Setup shows a dock set up in Lane Maintenance (4.15.1.1). You can assign a specific carrier to a lane or dock. In the setup shown in Lane Maintenance (4.15.1.1), Dock Setup, a carrier is assigned to the dock. You specify the carrier in the Carrier field.