Setting up load confirmations

When you contract with a carrier to cover a load, you provide written confirmation of what the load entails and how much you will pay. You can e-mail load confirmations to carriers when you assign them to a trip. The load confirmation is an SSRS report.

To send load confirmations from within TMW Operations, you must:

  1. Set up your system to send e-mail using SMTP.

  2. Identify the SSRS report you are using and provide its location.

  3. Verify the carrier’s profile includes a valid e-mail address.

Specifying the SSRS report and its location

The Carrier Profile setting will override the TTS50 setting.

You use two INI settings to set up the default SSRS report your company uses for load confirmations.

INI setting

Use this to identify

[Misc]AlphaReportServerURL

SSRS report server location

[Misc]AlphaConfirmReportPath

Path and name of your default load confirmation report

Overriding the default confirmation in a carrier’s profile

If you want, you can override the default load confirmation on a carrier-by-carrier basis. You do this in the carrier’s profile.

  1. Go to Tools > Profiles > Carrier Profile.
    The Carrier Profile window opens.

  2. In the Carrier ID field, enter the carrier’s ID.

  3. Press TAB to display the carrier’s information.

  4. Click Additional Info.

  5. Make the following entries in the EDI/Confirm section.

    Field Definition

    E-mail

    Select the checkbox.

    Type

    Select SSRS.

    URL

    Enter your company’s report server URL. For example, you could include your report server in the following format: https://<ReportServer location>/reportserver.

    Path

    Enter the path to the report itself. For example, you could include the path to your report in the following format: /XXXX/SSRS_RB_CONFIRM_01.

  6. Click Save.