General
Under the General heading, you can configure general shipment information. The information is loaded from the source of info, via the function Load from Source of info in the Window functions. The available information is:
Terms of Delivery
If you select Combiterms as Freight payer, this field will be activated and you can select terms of delivery. The Combiterms code will be shown to the right of each delivery term. The Combiterms codes are selected under the Terms of delivery tab in the Terms and Conditions procedure in the Global Settings module. If another freight payer is selected, this field is greyed out and the delivery term is loaded from the current source of info.
Place of Terms of Delivery
If you select Combiterms as Freight payer, this field will be activated and you change place of terms of delivery. If you select another terms of delivery, a question appears asking if you want to load the city for delivery term from delivery term/destination. The Combiterms codes must then be registered under the Terms of delivery tab in the Terms and Conditions procedure in the Global Settings module.
Freight Payer
Under Freight payer you select who should pay the shipment’s freight costs. There are a number of pre-defined payers to choose from.
- Receiver pays
- Shipper pays (default)
- Other payer
- Combiterms
Transport Date
Under Transport date the system shows today’s date and the current time of day as the default transport date. However, you can also enter another date and time, if needed.
Status
Under Status you can change the status of a shipment. All new shipments are given status 0 (Not booked) by default. The system will later change the status according to the different criteria below. (You can also manually change the status of a shipment, if needed.)
- 0 (Not booked) – always given to new shipments that have not yet been printed.
- 1 (Booked) – given when a booking is sent via IFTMBF. (This is for future use.)
- 2 (Confirmed) – given when IFTMBC has been received, when the booking has been confirmed.
- 3 (Printed) - can be given when the shipping documents are printed. *
- 4 (Shipped) - can be given when the shipping documents are printed. *
- 5 (EDI sent) - given when IFTMIN has been sent.
- 6 (Charged) - given when IFTMCS has been received.
- 9 (History/Invoiced) - can be given when the shipping documents are printed. * This status is given also when INVOIC has been received for the shipment.
* When printing the system can alter the status to 3, 4 or 9. This is determined by the setting Shipment Status after Print under the Shipping heading under the Sales tab in the Settings procedure.
Shipper GAN
Here you can select the shipper's GAN number by using the PopUp feature.
Receiver GAN
Here you can select the receiver's GAN number by using the PopUp feature.
Other GAN
If the freight payer is set to "Other payer" you can select other GAN number by using the PopUp feature.