Using parcel rating

Parcel rating is performed by looking up UPS and FedEx rates in external tables based on origin and destination locations, and the weight of shipments. You can populate the Variable Transportation Cost in the Transportation Policies table and the Direct Shipping Cost in the Shipments table using values returned from tables of UPS and FedEx rates.

When performing lookups into the rate tables, the lookup weight is rounded up to the next table weight. For example, if you have a transportation policy with a weight-based Shipment Size of 43.5, and use a parcel rate service with rates for 43 lbs and 44 lbs, the lookup will return the rate for 44 lbs.

The following steps describe the process for using Parcel Rates:

1. Populate the Shipping Rates table with records from Transportation Policies or Shipments or both.
2. Calculate the rates for the Shipping Rates records based on a specific parcel rate, such as UPS Ground Commercial or FedEx 2Day. The Shipping Rates table now acts as a cache of rating data, so that you do not need to call the parcel rate table every time you want to populate rates.
3. Populate costs using shipping rates in the appropriate column in Transportation Policies or Shipments or both, using the values in the Shipping Rates table.