Routing determines how to deliver a shipment. A result of the routing process is that a shipment is assigned to a existing load, or a new load is created for that shipment.
Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation can perform routing based on routing guides that are defined within Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation, by the use of external routing, or by manual routing. External routing, also known as dynamic routing, uses an external resource to determine assignment of a shipment to a load.