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Carrier: The shipping carrier your company uses to transport items for this business purpose. Receivables uses the Ship-To and then the Bill-To freight carrier as the default value during invoice entry.

If you are using the Multiple Organization support feature, you cannot enter a carrier at the customer level; you can only enter a carrier for a customer's Bill To, Ship To, and/or Dunning site. If you are not using multiple organizations, you can assign a carrier to a customer and to each of their site uses.

Contact: The primary contact person for this business purpose for this address.

Demand Class: You define Demand Classes in the Demand Class window. This field is used by Oracle Manufacturing.

FOB (free on board): The point or location where the ownership title of goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer. Receivables uses the Ship-To FOB and then the Bill-To FOB as the default value when you enter transactions.

Freight Terms: The freight terms to associate with this business purpose (if you are using Oracle Order Entry). Freight Terms determine whether the customer is responsible for freight charges associated with a sales order.

Location: The location of inventory for this business purpose address.

Order Type: The order type you want Oracle Order Entry to use as the default in the Returns window when you enter a return for this business purpose. Order types determine order characteristics such as order cycle, standard value rules, and demand class.

Organization: This field is for display only. If you associate this inventory location with an organization, the system displays the organization name in this field.

Payment Terms: Receivables uses this as a default value during transaction entry. If you do not enter a value here, the payment terms default from your customer or site.

Price List: The price list you want Oracle Order Entry to use as the default in the Enter Sales Orders and the Returns window. You cannot enter a value in this field if you do not have Oracle Order Entry installed.

Sales Territory: The Territory Flexfield to associate with this address. You define Territories in the Countries and Territories window.

Ship Partial: Indicates whether this customer at this business purpose address allows partial shipments of orders in Oracle Order Entry.

Tax Code: The tax code assigned to this address. If your tax method is Sales Tax and you want Receivables to calculate tax based on your Ship-To or Bill-To address, do not enter a value in this field. If this field is null, Receivables uses the tax code and rate you assigned to this customer in the Customers window.

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