5290: Transportation Modeling

Lesson Objectives

• Identify the position of TModeling in Transportation Management Product Footprint
• Describe Transportation Modeling (TModeling)
• List the key features covered in TModeling
• State how TModeling can be used
• View how data flows in TModeling

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

• Perform the basic navigation using Scenario Workbench and Scenario Summary
• Use the Side Navigation Panel to create, build, and work with Data Tables associated with a scenario
• Use Detail Table Toolbar and its various functionalities

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

• Define a project
• Define a scenario
• Create a scenario in Transportation Modeling (TModeling)
• Define a starter model
• Build a starter model

Lesson Exercises

• Creating a Scenario
• Importing Data into the Location Detail Tables
• Setting Latitude and Longitude
• Importing Data into Shipment Detail Table
• Viewing a Map

Lesson Objectives

• Define optimization
• Describe the data requirement for optimization
• Check and verify data
• Edit, load, and save the Solver and strategy 0ptions
• Optimize a scenario in Modeling (TModeling)
• Perform either Cancel, Update, or Save task for the optimized solution
• View data in maps

Lesson Exercises

• Configuring the Solver Options and Optimizing a Starter Model
• Viewing the Map
• Viewing and Analyzing Optimization Log
• Viewing Output Summary

Lesson Objectives

• Describe the following three components of a scenario Entities, Relationships & Attributes
• Create and copy a new entity and relationship
• Define the Data Hierarchy in Transportation Modeling (TModeling)
• Describe the Upstream and Downstream Interdependencies between entity and relationship tables

Lesson Exercises

• Creating Entities
• Creating Entities Attributes

Lesson Objectives

• Creating a business hour ID
• Applying loading and unloading restrictions
• Setting up handling time
• Applying routing restrictions
• Creating transit override

Lesson Exercises

• Creating and Assigning Business Hours
• Creating Business Hours Exception
• Assigning Business Hours to Locations and Hubs
• Assigning Handling Times
• Assigning Routing Restrictions
• Creating and Applying Transit Overrides

Lesson Objectives

• Define a hub.
• Add a hub.
• Create and assign business hours.
• Optimize a model.
• View hub and loads on a map.

Lesson Exercises

• Adding a Hub
• Creating and Assigning Business Hour
• Optimizing the Model
• Viewing a Hub and Loads on a Map

Lesson Objectives

• Creating new shipments in the Shipment Detail Table
• Create commodity codes and exclusions
• Use shipment parameters to force the direct delivery of shipments to their destination
• Use shipment parameters to force shipments through a specific network routing
• Use shipment parameters to force a specific carrier/tariff/service for shipments
• Create and assign merge in transit groups to shipments
• Create and assign consolidation classes to shipments
• Create and assign order groups to shipments
• Create location group exclusions

Lesson Exercises

• Commodity Codes and Exclusions
• Force Direct Delivery
• Force Network Routing
• Force Carrier/Service
• Merge-in-Transit
• Shipment Consolidation
• Order Groups

Lesson Objectives

• Define tariff structure and components
• Create the following components in Access Rating Tool GUI and Access Rating Tool Excel Import-
• Carriers
• Tariffs
• Services
• Restrictions
• Charges
• Rates
• Lanes

Lesson Exercises

• Creating Tariffs using ART Excel Import Exercise
• Testing the TLOAD and AIRFT Tariffs

Lesson Objectives

• Explain the concept of delivery schedules
• Create a delivery schedule

Lesson Exercises

• Changing Selected Time Windows
• Setting Up Tariffs
• Creating Delivery Schedule
• Appling Delivery Schedule to the Service Exercise
• Testing the Impact

Lesson Objectives

• Define the strategy and parameter files
• Describe the functions that the Optimizer recognizes in a strategy file
• Edit a strategy file using the Strategy File Editor
• Describe a few parameters that the Optimizer uses to control shipment optimization
• Edit a parameter file using the Parameter File Editor

Lesson Exercises

• Setting the Solver Options
• Editing Strategies and Arguments
• Working with Variables, For Loops, and Plan Stacks Exercise
• Editing the Parameter File

Lesson Objectives

• Understand how to model carrier availability and lane availability in Transportation Modeling (TModeling)
• Enable and update carrier equipment availability (CEA) constraints
• Enforce CEA and Lane Availability constraints in TModeling

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

• Define continuous moves
• Describe how to model continuous moves
• Use the trip functions in the strategy file to model continuous moves
• Configure carrier and tariff settings to model continuous moves
• Describe how to model continuous moves using the Access Rating Tool

Lesson Exercises

• Viewing Shipment Details
• Establishing the Baseline
• Modifying Carrier and Tariff
• Optimizing the Scenario
• Viewing Trip Detail Table

Lesson Objectives

• Explain optimization metrics
• List the steps to configure optimization metrics
• Create optimization metrics using the Add Comparison Metrics, New Chart, and Load Chart options

Lesson Exercises

• Optimization Metrics
• Using the Add Comparison Metrics Option Exercise
• Using the Chart Option

Lesson Objectives

Contains- Glossary and Hands on Exercises

Lesson Exercises

Not applicable