Rate Shopping and the Routing Guide
Use the Routing Guide to determine the services to consider during rate shopping, based on the rules that apply to the shipment. The services listed in the Routing Assignment tab of any applicable rules are considered for rate shopping.
Example Routing Guide Rule Criteria
In this example, the Routing Guide rule criteria is a ship to country of US and a maximum ship weight of 50 kg.
Web UI Rate Shopping Task
Web UI Rate Shopping Task displays rate shopping results based on the Routing Guide rule in
Routing Criteria - Shipment Weight/Volume. You can add further rules to make the routing criteria more or less specific. You can configure many rules for the applicable origin. The routing criteria of each rule is applied against the shipment to check whether the rule is valid for the shipment data. Only valid rules are used to determine the set of services that are shopped for the shipment.