Determining the Preferred Service for the Shipment
Each Service in the Routing Assignment tab has a particular weighting or preference value associated with it. The lowest value has the highest preference. This logic can be shown clearly by means of an example.
Routing Assignment: Service Preferences
In this example:
• Service UPSWW065 has a weighting of 50
• Service UPSWW066 has a weighting of 20
• Service UPSWW067 has a weighting of 10
This means that the order of precedence for these services is as follows:
1 UPSWW067
2 UPSWW066
3 UPSWW065
If you do not assign a preference weighting to the service, the default value of zero applies. This weight is the lowest weight, and the highest preference. To ensure clarity about preference weightings, explicitly assign a weight to each service.
If no Routing Guide rules match the characteristics of the shipment, then the Routing Assignment task fails, and the shipment is not updated.
Note: When multiple applicable rules match the characteristics of the shipment, and each service shares the same highest Preference value, then the system rate shops these services and selects the cheapest service as the preferred service. If you have set parameters for the BBSRAS task, these parameters are taken into account when selecting the service; the system does not automatically select the cheapest service.
