UCM Administrative Links and Screens

Depending upon how your UCM carrier was defined, there are different areas that can be configured. However, each UCM carrier instance in Parcel has the following links and screens by default:

•Shipper Defaults

•Sequence Data

•Geographic Code

•Transit Days

•Holidays

•Import TinT Files

•Manage Custom Rates

•Manage Custom Routes

•Manage Custom Zones

•Import Custom Data

•Manage UI Elements

Shipper Defaults

UI Administrative elements that you create in UCM can appear as tabs on the Shipper Defaults screen. You can also create additional administrative screens. After you set upyour UCM carrier definition and  add the carrier to a Parcel location, you can manage the administrative elements at the carrier instance level in Parcel by changing default values using the Parcel Web Admin tool. Defaults that you set in Parcel override those set in UCM. See the following Help topic: Shipper Defaults and Sequence Data.

Sequence Data

Sequence numbers created for a UCM carrier definition translate into a Sequence Data link and screen when in the Parcel carrier instance. The Sequence Data screen includes a tab for each sequence number created in UCM. See the following Help topic: Shipper Defaults and Sequence Data.

Geographic Code

After you import the Geographic Code file, Parcel displays the table of these values on this screen, enabling you to add, edit, or delete rows as needed. See the following Help topics: Geographic Codes, Transit Days and Holidays.

Transit Days

This screen displays the transit days and related information that Parcel uses for time in transit calculations. After you import the time in transit file, Parcel displays the table of these values on this screen, enabling you to add, edit, or delete rows as needed. See the following Help topics: Geographic Codes, Transit Days and Holidays.

Holidays

This screen displays the Holidays that Parcel uses for time in transit calculations. After you import the Carrier Holidays file, Parcel displays the table of these values on this screen, enabling you to add, edit, or delete rows as needed. See the following Help topic: Geographic Codes, Transit Days and Holidays.

Import TinT Files

This screen has the following fields:

•Geographic Data File – Use to specify the path name and filename of the geographic data file.

•Time in Transit File – Use to specify the path name and filename of the time in transit file.

•Holiday File – Use to specify the path name and filename of the holiday file.

These are the standard time in transit files. After you import these files, the data from them appears in table form on the respective Geographic Code, Transit Days, and UCM Holidays screens. For descriptions of the function and formatting of these files, see the topics under "How to Configure Time in Transit."

Manage Custom Rates, Routes, and Zones

Keep the following considerations in mind when managing rates, routes, and zones:

•You must create methods for rates, routes, and zones at the carrier definition level in UCM in order to manage data for them at the carrier instance level in Parcel.  If the methods do not exist in the carrier definition, no links to manage this data in Parcel exist.

•If you are using routes or zones at the carrier instance level, you must have associated geographical code data at the instance level, either added at the carrier definition level in UCM or at the instance level in Parcel.

•You cannot view any data added at the definition level but you can still use this data.

•You can import custom data files for rates, routes, and zones.

See the Help topics under "Managing Custom Rates, Routes, and Zones."

Import Custom Data

You can import rates, routes, and zones in UCM. However, these types of data entered in UCM do not appear in the tables on Parcel configuration screens when you add an instance of this UCM carrier to a Parcel location. If you do not import or otherwise add this data into Parcel directly, Parcel uses the corresponding data set up in UCM. However, if you do add or import data for geographic codes, transit days, holidays, rates, routes, and zones into Parcel directly so that they appear in screen tables, then Parcel uses the data in the tables and not the data set up with the carrier definition in UCM. Additionally, whenever you import new data from a data file, old data is deleted and replaced by the new data. See the following Help topic: Import Custom Data.

Manage UI Elements

You can use the Manage UI Elements screen to add individual default values to a UI administrative element including an effective date, and import values with effective dates, as well as edit or delete these values. See the Help topics under "Managing UI Elements."