Abstract: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with manipulating a transportation plan based on system assisted exception resolutions are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes accessing transportation orders and an actionable plan of loads. The method may also include identifying planning exceptions, identifying candidate planning actions for resolving the exceptions, and providing data concerning the impact that resolving the exception using the candidate planning action will have.

Abstract: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with transportation planning with multi-level firming are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method embodiment includes accessing transportation planning elements and a transportation planning model. The method may also include identifying loads that satisfy orders in the transportation planning elements according to constraints in the transportation planning model and then applying multi-level firming designations to transportation planning elements related to the identified loads. The method may also include identifying additional loads based, at least in part, on the multi-level firming designations. The method may output an actionable plan of loads stored, for example, on a computer-readable medium.