Transport Management System: Zones

Zone Hierarchies

Zone hierarchies are associated with service providers. They may be applied to all services (the carrier default) or just one service. They are used in various places in the system as a standard hierarchy of destinations. It becomes a very powerful mechanism for rating data as well as analysing it.

Rating by zone

Initially, the ratings system will take the destination entered in the transaction and attempt to find a rate covering that specific zone. If a match is not found, the system then attempts to place the destination within a zone hierarchy for either the current service or the carrier default.

Example Zone Hierarchy:

Example: Postcode 2020 (Mascot, NSW) has been entered into the transaction. Not finding a rate, the software will search for a containing postcode range for the current service. Not finding a postcode range,  it will then try and find a containing postcode range in the default zone hierarchy for the carrier. If it is found within a postcode range then the program will take the parent local zone and attempt to find a rate associated with that. Not found by the local zone it continues to move up the hierarchy trying successive levels until a match is found. This processing can start at any point so that the user may have entered "SYD SYDNEY" as a local zone into the transaction.

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