Using zone costs

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Using zone costs

Zone costs enable you to define cost definition structures similar to standard parcel rates, such as UPS and FedEx. You create zones based on origin group-destination group pairs. For each zone, you can set up one or more steps to which costs are applied. You use a set of three tables to create the zone cost structure:

Zone Cost Definitions – Use this table to identify the group type that is used as a zone, such as a state or zip code. You also establish the step size and maximum step, as well as the step period and basis. For example, you can create a 3-digit zip structure with a step size of 2 and 4 breaks (based on a maximum step size of 6).
Zone Assignments - Use this table to associate source group-destination group to a zone number. For example, with the 3-digit zip example you use the table to construct a matrix similar to this one:

	Destination group name
Source group name		100	101	102	103	104
	100	1	2	2	3	3
	101	2	1	2	2	3
	102	2	2	1	2	2
	103	3	2	2	1	2
	104	3	3	2	2	1

Zone Costs – Use this table to define the cost per step per zone. Following our 3-digit zip example, this table enables you to create costs similar to this matrix:

	Step
Zone		0	2	4	6
	1	1.00	0.95	0.90	0.85
	2	1.50	1.40	1.30	1.20
	3	2.00	1.85	1.70	1.55
	4	2.50	2.30	2.10	1.90
	5	3.00	2.75	2.5	2.25

Last modified: Friday May 12, 2023

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