Once carriers have uploaded their bids, the shipper has the ability to stack rank the carriers on each lane. The default sort order is lowest to highest cost, but using the :: icon on the left side of each row, you can click and drag the row and arrange these in order of carrier preference. The order in which the carriers are ranked will determine the tendering order if routing guides are created for the lane.
The Inactivate feature allows you to mark carriers on the lane inactive in contracts. This is useful if for example you receive 10 carrier bids on a given lane. By default, all 10 carriers would appear in the tender modal when assigning a carrier to a shipment. If I really only want to see the top 4 carriers appear when applying a contract to a shipment I can check the Inactive box for carriers ranked 5 - 10 on the screen.
In order to make it easier for the user, when the 5th ranked carrier box is selected the system will automatically check the carriers ranked 6 - 10 as well. If the user made a mistake they can check the box on the header row to deselect all the checked boxes and start again. The user can also check and uncheck individual carriers.
The Inactive carrier checks are automatically saved as the user enters them, so the user can begin this process and then return to it in the future.
Once all the lanes have been reviewed and lanes have been marked Inactive for some carriers, the user can click on the RFP Actions drop list and select Set Contract Rate Statuses. This will initiate the process to update all of the related carrier contracts that were created when the carrier submitted the RFP bids.
The shipper can access the carrier’s contract and click on the View Rate Table link to see the detailed rate information lane by lane. The Inactive column will display a check box next to any lanes that were marked Inactive in the RFP. The user also has the ability to manually check or uncheck any carrier lane within the contract independent of the RFP process. This allows the shipper to streamline the number of potential carriers that show up during the carrier tendering process, while still retaining all the rate information submitted by the carrier in the RFP.
