Enter an alphanumeric code that identifies a separate entity within a business for which you want to track costs. For example, a business unit might be a warehouse location, job project, work center, branch, or plant.
You can assign a business unit to a document, entity, or person for purposes of responsibility reporting. For example, the system provides reports of open accounts payable and accounts receivable by business unit to track equipment by responsible department.
Business unit security might prevent you from viewing information about business units for which you have no authority.
Specify the carrier assigned to complete a shipment or part of a shipment. This could represent a common carrier or a private fleet.
Select this option to indicate whether the system uses rate clipping to calculate a rate.
Specify the shipment detail field that determines a rate when the charge is applied at the shipment detail level. You can specify one of these fields:
Freight Classification Code
Dispatch Group
Freight Category 1
Freight Category 2
Enter the source of the distance for a delivery. The source could be a preference, carrier agreement, entered by the user, or retrieved from a mileage system.
Document type is a user-defined code (00/DT) that identifies the origin and purpose of the document. Enter the document type to use as the default value or select it from the Select User Define Codes form. For example, you can specify the default document type associated with the purchase order for a subcontract routing.
Enter the National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) which is assigned according to the freight commodity code. This is the default information for items that do not have a freight class.
Specify the field to use to look up a charge in a table, such as weight or cubes. The system allows 25 columns for lookup type 1.
Specify a second field to use to look up a charge in a table. The system allows 999 rows for lookup type 2.
Identify a user-defined option or piece of equipment which is associated with a shipment or which is required to make a shipment.
Select this option to specify whether the rate is payable to a carrier as part of the freight costs.
Specify whether a rate is applied to an entire shipment or to individual pieces on a shipment. Depending on how the rate is applied to a shipment, the rates are added for a total freight cost or piece level, or at a detail level where the shipment is rated as a combination of both the shipment and piece level. This field also indicates how a load is rated versus how a shipment is rated.
Specify the schedule of freight and miscellaneous charges which are applied to a shipment.
Enter the type of rate specified in a table. This could be a fixed amount or percentage, for example
Enter the unit of measure to which the rate applies. For example, if the rate unit of measure is tons, the amount is obtained by multiplying the weight in tons times the rate.
Enter the user-defined code that represents the delivery route on which the customer resides. This field is one of several factors used by the freight summary facility to calculate potential freight charges for an order.