Understanding Container Transactions

When you process container transactions, information about containers and container rental fees and deposits is recorded in the Container Transaction File (F41181), Container Reconciliation File (F41185), and Container Deposit File (F4118) tables.

You typically run the Container Management Extraction program at the end of the day to extract container transaction information for full and empty containers from the F4211 table. You then run the container deposit billing batch programs to create sales order lines for rental fees or deposits on containers that the company has delivered to customers and to create credits for refunds on containers that the customers have returned. The program copies this information to the F41181 table.

You can generate reports to review the container transaction activity for each customer and the number of containers that you have on hand. You can also use the inquiry programs in container management to review the deposit layers for each customer and analyze container transactions.