E Overview to Container Management

This appendix contains the following topics:

Section E.1, "Objectives"
Section E.2, "About Container Management Processing"

E.1 Objectives

To extract container transaction information from other systems
To generate invoices for container deposits or rentals
To review deposit layers and container transactions
To set up container management

E.2 About Container Management Processing

Because containers are of high value and your company maintains ownership of them even when they are in the possession of your customers, it is essential that you carefully track container transactions. Container Management extracts information about container transactions from other systems and stores this information in tables specific to Container Management.

Complete the following tasks:

Understand container management
Process container transactions
Set up container management

Container Management integrates with the Procurement and Sales Order Management systems to:

Extract all information concerning container transactions from the other systems and maintain this information in tables specific to Container Management
Track the movement of both empty and full containers
Track customer deposit or rental charges for containers
Determine when customers need to be invoiced for deposits and credited for the return of containers
Print invoices for deposit and rental fees and credit memos for refunds
Allow you to review container balance and customer deposit information and print the necessary reports

E.2.1 Before You Begin

Verify that container information and container transactions have been entered and processed through the Procurement, Inventory Management, and Sales Order Management systems