Load building allows the system to automatically assign shipments to existing waves during wave execution, letting users create meaningful loads representing trucks without using the load planning workbench. The load building features allows users to create loads automatically based on user defined criteria. A load build template is created, which links to a specific wave template method, and controls what load (existing or new) load lines being waved will be added to. Users can also choose whether to evaluate the volumetric restriction of the load template, or if volumetric/weight maximums should not be considered and only other criteria.