TM 202 · ENABLE
What master data makes a transport plan possible?
A planning strategy cannot repair an incomplete network. TM needs trustworthy locations, time, distance, products, capacity, partners, and commercial data before it can make a feasible decision.
READ FROM RESULT BACK TO RULE
Make reachability, capacity, and responsibility explicit
TM combines a business requirement, a planning decision, and operating proof. A visible document status alone rarely explains whether the plan is feasible or recoverable.
ONE TRANSPORT STORY
Follow the decision through its evidence
Each hand-off has a different owner and a different proof. Preserve the hand-off rather than repairing a later status in isolation.
- 01PLACELocations and zones
Address, calendar, time zone, zone membership, and reachability describe where freight can move.
- 02CAPACITYResources and carriers
Equipment, availability, carrier eligibility, and responsibilities describe who can move it.
- 03COMMERCIALAgreements and rates
Service validity and cost rules make the decision commercially usable.
DIAGNOSTIC EVIDENCE
Ask the question at the correct layer
Transport problems become recoverable when the team checks the decision, source data, document, and event evidence in that order.
Check zone membership, lane direction, mode, validity, distance, duration, and calendars.
Check equipment, resource availability, carrier eligibility, and product attributes.
Check agreement, carrier role, service, rate validity, currency, and calculation basis.
PROJECT MOMENT
A valid customer address still produces no route
The customer location exists but is not assigned to the zone used by the road lane. Planning therefore finds no reachability; the correction belongs in governed zone membership, not a manually forced freight order.
- Location exists
- Address is valid
- Zone assignment is missing
- Lane cannot apply
See how consolidation, capacity, constraints, and stops work together.