LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval

General Information

Screen-specific Components

• Access DetailsAccess Details

  The screen can be accessed by privileged users with the following system actions and role types:

  • To access the screen and search for PCL and LINE Approval status, you need View Booking Route Approval system action with Approve Booking (PCL, Feeder) or Approve Booking (LINE) role.

  • To approve PCL Booking route, you need Approve PCL Booking Route system action with Approve Booking (PCL, Feeder) role.

  • To approve LINE Booking route, you need Approve Line Booking system action and proper delegation of PCC Line with Approve Booking (LINE) role.

• Points to RememberPoints to Remember

  • To update the Route Status of multiple Bookings, you need to select Bookings of same Route Status.

  • For PCL Bookings exclusively, you can approve a set of Bookings that either have same Voyages or no Voyage at all. For Bookings without Voyage,the Bookings must have same LP-DP combination.

  • The Booking status automatically becomes Accepted if all route legs get approved and all Booking validations are passed. Similarly, if all legs are approved for a particular Booking and then the route status of the 'first' leg changes from Approved to Not Approved or Rejected, PCC.NET updates the Booking status back to Requested from Accepted. This scenario does not affect the Booking status which is reconciled.
  • If a Booking is in Reconciled status and it’s Discharge Port (DP) falls under US territory, PCC.NET checks for the availability of FMC documentation during Route Leg approval for that Booking. In absence of FMC documentation, route leg approval is not possible and it shows error for FMC.
  • If all Bookings selected for Route Leg approval are in Requested Status and one/more Bookings have their Discharge Port (DP) falling under US territory without FMC Filing information, a warning message appears informing that FMC filing is not yet done for those Requested Bookings and will ask your agreement whether to proceed further for Leg Approval or not. On your approval, PCC.NET will approve the legs, but keep all those Bookings in Requested status for which FMC documentation is not available. If you disagree to proceed, however, the selected route legs will not be approved.

   

• Messages - possible reasons and corrective action

• LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval (OPBKW04)- Field Descriptions

• Common Interface Controls

How do I?

FAQs

• Approve Line legsApprove Line legs - For Voyage Controllers

  To approve LINE Booking route, you need Approve Line Booking system action and proper delegation of PCC Line with Approve Booking (LINE) role.

  1. Open the LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval (OPBKW04) screen.
  2. Enter the desired search criteria in the appropriate fields of the Search Criteria pane.

  Search only for Line leg as Category for which approval is required. For field descriptions of the panel, click here.

  To update route status of multiple Bookings, you need to select Bookings of same Route Status.

  3. Select the Bookings by selecting the corresponding check boxes.
  4. Click APPROVE/REJECT. The LINE(s) Mass Approval Update dialog box appears. For field descriptions of the dialog box, click here.
     1. Update Booking's approval of Route Status to Approved after checking space in the intended/actual vessel.
     2. Click SAVE.

  Notes:

  • In case of transshipment, the Voyage Controller must approve each leg.
  • You cannot select voyage. It remains disabled.
  • During approving a Booking, if a port present in the Booking route is deleted for a Voyage, PCC.NET displays an error message asking you to change the Route.

  • The Booking status automatically becomes Accepted if all route legs get approved and all Booking validations are passed. Similarly, if all legs are approved for a particular Booking and then the route status of the 'first' leg changes from Approved to Not Approved or Rejected, PCC.NET updates the Booking status back to Requested from Accepted. This scenario does not affect the Booking status which is reconciled.
  • If a Booking is in Reconciled status and it’s Discharge Port (DP) falls under US territory, PCC.NET checks for the availability of FMC documentation during Route Leg approval for that Booking. In absence of FMC documentation, route leg approval is not possible and it shows error for FMC.
  • If all Bookings selected for Route Leg approval are in Requested Status and one/more Bookings have their Discharge Port (DP) falling under US territory without FMC Filing information, a warning message appears informing that FMC filing is not yet done for those Requested Bookings and will ask your agreement whether to proceed further for Leg Approval or not. On your approval, PCC.NET will approve the legs, but keep all those Bookings in Requested status for which FMC documentation is not available. If you disagree to proceed, however, the selected route legs will not be approved.

• Reject Line leg approvalReject Line leg approval - For Voyage Controllers

  1. Open the LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval (OPBKW04) screen.
  2. Enter the desired search criteria in the appropriate fields of the Search Criteria pane.

  Search only for LINE(s) leg for which approval is required. For field descriptions of the panel, click here.

  3. Click APPROVE/REJECT. The LINE(s) Mass Approval Update dialog box appears. For field descriptions of the dialog box, click here.
     1. Update Booking route Approval Flag to Rejected if you find it impossible to load cargo during checking Space Utilization.
     2. Enter a proper reason for rejection in the Reason field. 
     3. Click SAVE. The Booking user receives intimation about the rejection of the leg.

• Approve PCL legsApprove PCL legs - For Area Managers

  To approve PCL Booking route, you need Approve PCL Booking Route system action with Approve Booking (PCL, Feeder) role.

  1. Open the LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval (OPBKW04) screen.
  2. Enter the desired search criteria in the appropriate fields of the Search Criteria pane.

  Search only for PCL leg as Category for which approval is required. For field descriptions of the panel, click here.

  3. Select the Bookings by selecting the corresponding check boxes.

  Notes:

  • You need to select a set of Bookings that either have same Voyages or no Voyage at all.

  • For Bookings without Voyage, you need to select those Bookings that have same LP-DP combination.

  4. Click APPROVE/REJECT. The Mass Approval Update for PCL appears. Display of this dialog box differs for the PCL (with Voyage) or LinePCL (with Voyage) or Line category and PCL (without Voyage)PCL (without Voyage) category. For field descriptions of the dialog box, click here.
     1. Update Booking's approval of Route Status to Approved after checking space in the intended/actual vessel.
     2. Click SAVE. On saving, PCC.NET checks whether PCL schedule is already registered or not. If not registered, an error message appears.

     

     Field	Description
     Route Status	Status values for the Line or PCL route leg approval are: Approved Not Approved Rejected
     Reason	Reason for rejecting the route approval request. It should be provided if status gets rejected. You can enter maximum of 4000 characters. If you open this dialog box to update a record, Reason gets populated with previously saved reason. For multiple records, it remains blank. On saving, Reason is saved against all selected records.
     Buttons
     CANCEL	Button to exit the dialog box without saving your updates.
     SAVE	Button to save the route leg status based on selected Route Status.

      

     

     Field	Description
     Voyage Name	Voyage Number. This value can be selected for PCL category when voyage schedule for PCL is not available. On selection of proper PCL Voyage, corresponding PCC Line is populated.
     PCC Line	PCC Line of the voyage. Read-only.
     Route Status	Status of the approval for route leg: Approved Not Approved Rejected
     Reason	Reason for rejecting the route approval request. It should be provided if status gets rejected. You can enter maximum of 4000 characters. If you open this dialog box to update a record, Reason gets populated with previously saved reason. For multiple records, it remains blank. On saving, Reason is saved against all selected records.
     Buttons
     CANCEL	Button to exit the dialog box without saving your updates.
     SAVE	Button to save the route leg status based on selected Route Status.

      

  Notes:

  • If you select Bookings that do not have Voyage schedule, you can request for registering an intended Voyage schedule and updating PCL schedule from the LINE(s) & PCL Mass Approval screen. If the schedule has been created, you can search the schedule by selecting the Voyage Name. Once you select the Voyage, the corresponding PCC Line is populated automatically.

  • If ETA of the PCL is later than the ETD of the next leg of the Booking, you cannot update PCL voyage, ETA and ETD using the dialog box.

  • The Booking status automatically becomes Accepted if all route legs get approved and all Booking validations are passed. Similarly, if all legs are approved for a particular Booking and then the route status of the 'first' leg changes from Approved to Not Approved or Rejected, PCC.NET updates the Booking status back to Requested from Accepted. This scenario does not affect the Booking status which is reconciled.
  • If a Booking is in Reconciled status and it’s Discharge Port (DP) falls under US territory, PCC.NET checks for the availability of FMC documentation during Route Leg approval for that Booking. In absence of FMC documentation, route leg approval is not possible and it shows error for FMC.
  • If all Bookings selected for Route Leg approval are in Requested Status and one/more Bookings have their Discharge Port (DP) falling under US territory without FMC Filing information, a warning message appears informing that FMC filing is not yet done for those Requested Bookings and will ask your agreement whether to proceed further for Leg Approval or not. On your approval, PCC.NET will approve the legs, but keep all those Bookings in Requested status for which FMC documentation is not available. If you disagree to proceed, however, the selected route legs will not be approved.

• What may be the cause of rejecting approval of a leg?What may be the cause of rejecting approval of a leg?

  During Space Utilization checking, if you find it impossible to load cargo, you may reject and inform the Booking user.

  You must provide a proper reason for rejection.