If the amount for the consolidated rating request for the Manifest Consolidation Group is less than the sum of the amounts for each shipment leg in the group rated separately, the savings realized from the consolidation will be distributed to the individual shipment legs in the Manifest Consolidation Group. Note that rating for the Manifest Consolidation Group must have been successful before application of savings will be considered. If the rating failed for any reason, the amounts for individual shipment legs will not be impacted. Failure to successfully rate the Manifest Consolidation Group would be treated in the same way as a successful rating request that did not produce a lower rate: the original rating results for the shipment leg will prevail.
Assigning Results to Individual Shipment Legs
The total amount of savings realized by consolidation will be pro-rated to each of the shipment legs in the Manifest Consolidation Group based on each shipment leg's percentage of the total cost for all shipment legs prior to consolidation. A single row will be created in the Charge Detail table representing the consolidation discount amount assigned to each shipment leg.
If options were not considered when rating the Manifest Consolidation Group, the pro-ration process will be based on the sum of amounts for conditions for each shipment leg as a percentage of the total amount for conditions for all shipment legs prior to consolidation.
If options were considered when rating the Manifest Consolidation Group, the pro-ration process will be based on the total rating amount for each shipment leg as a percentage of the total rating amount for all shipment legs prior to consolidation.
When consolidation opportunities are identified, in addition to generating an entry in the Charge Detail table, the Charged Amount in the Shipment Leg table will be reduced to reflect the reduction in amount associated with the shipment leg.
Manifest Consolidation Number
If consolidation is enabled, a Manifest Consolidation Number will be assigned to each shipment leg in a Manifest Consolidation Group by concatenating the Manifest ID with a sequence number. Reference Number Type "MCN" (that is, Manifest Consolidation Number) has been reserved for this purpose. The system-defined Reference Number Qualifier that refers to Reference Number Type "MCN" is active generically for all carriers at the shipment leg level. The level assigned to these reference numbers is "Shipment Leg".
Even if the A/P manifest consolidation process did not identify any savings for the Manifest Consolidation Group, the reference number representing the Manifest Consolidation Number for each shipment leg will not be removed. This differs from the approach used for A/R Consolidation process where the Rating Consolidation Number will be removed if the consolidated amount was not less than the sum of charges for individual shipments.