What is the pendant to a Scale Formula in TCM?

Question

Hi Experts,
I have a question in the area of TCM regarding the following scenario.
We setup a standard rate table for the basic freight charge. This table is used for several customers.
The table consists of the following scales.
- Freight Class with scale items: 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 77, 85, 92.5, 100, 110, 125, 150, 175, etc.
- Source Zip code
- Destination zip code
The Freight class is stored in the Forwarding Order item as a Commodity Code type.
So far the setup works fine.
However we have now special customer agreements which says:
if the freight class of the forwarding order is between 50 and 92.5 rate it as 50 and
if the freight class is between 100 and 125 rate it as 100. In all other cases use the freight class as is.
So for example if the forwarding order has an item with class 65 it needs to lookup the tariff in the rate table with class 50. In case of 175 it uses 175.
In ERP we would have implemented our logic in a scale formula . But how can I handle this requirement best in TM?
Any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Tom

Answer 1

Hi Sunish,
thanks a lot for your reply. Unfortunately i cannot go that route.
Here's the background. We use a tariff e.g. 4711 for many customers. This base tariff is based on Freight Class, source & destination zip code and weight. Now we have some exceptions for specific customers where we agreed that whenever they ship something that is between freight class 50 and 92.5, we rate it as 50. I know that we could setup a separate rate table for this customer, but that makes the overall handling very complex. I need to have 1 base tariff that I can use for multiple customers. by that I only need to maintain 1 table. The logic for those customer-specific freight class exceptions I need to apply before it pulls the actual tariff from the table. So the steps would be:
1. Read actual Freight Class from Forwarding Order (e.g. FC 60)
2. Apply the "rate-as" exception logic. As a result for example the system uses not 60 but 50 as Freight Class.
3. Pull tariff from rate table with FC 50 , Source & Destination ZIP etc.
Do you have any idea where I can implement this "rate-as logic"?
Thanks
Tom