Purchasing > Shipments > Freight container 

The management of freight containers is included in the logistics chain. Freight containers are used in the Shipments management in order to manage the Transportation of purchase orders to their delivery point.

In this function, select the lines of the orders to ship. It can be full orders for which you can decide to keep or discard the initially planned quantities. You can also pick a selection of lines and modify their initial quantity.
These lines can come from several orders, sites and suppliers, provided that they belong to the same legal company.

However, you cannot select order lines already associated directly with a shipment.

You can modify or delete a freight container as long as it is not associated with a shipment.

Prerequisites

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Screen management

In order to create a freight container, you must at least enter the following information:

  • The reference of the freight container, if the automatic numbering option is deactivated
  • The used container code
  • An order line, to be picked from the selection panel of orders

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Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

  • Container no. (field CTRNUM)

The freight container identification code is mandatory. You can:

  • Enter this information
  • Use the automatic numbering The number is assigned upon recording the creation.
    This number is dependent on the setup of the sequence number assigned to the 'Container' type documents in the Purchasing module (functions on sequence number Structures and Assignment).
  • Container ID (field CTRUID)

This is the freight container identification code defined for the international trade, according to the ISO 4 standards: 4 alphanumeric characters followed by 7 numeric characters.

 You can enter it. It can also be entered by import.

  • Shipment number (field SHIPNUM)

This field contains the shipment number. It cannot be entered. It is automatically populated when the freight container is associated with a shipment.

  • Transport no. (field TRNNUM)

This field displays the transport number. It cannot be entered. It is automatically populated when the freight container is associated with a transport by means of the shipment.

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In this tab:

  • you can select the site and/or supplier in order to filter the orders to select in the selection panel.
    In order to perform a multi-site and/or multi-company selection, or get additional selection criteria, you can leave the Site and Supplier fields empty and use the Picking criteria.
  • Specify the container you wish to use. It will determine the maximum weight and volume that can be loaded.

 

Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

Data

This field is used to specify the site to which the purchase orders that you wish to select are attached. The choice of a site thus allows you to filter the selection panel with only the purchase orders recorded on this site. Once the first order has been created, the site is no longer modifiable.
If you wish to save, for a container, orders from different sites (but belonging to the same company), leave that field empty and use the Picking criteria to carry out your selection.

This field allows you to specify the supplier to which the purchase orders that you wish to select are attached. The choice of a supplier thus allows you to filter the selection panel with only the purchase orders placed with this supplier. If you have also entered a site, the selection panel is filtered with only the orders placed on this site with the specified provider. Once the first order has been thus selected, the supplier is no longer modifiable.
If you wish to save, for a container, orders placed with different suppliers, leave that field empty and use the Picking criteria to carry out your selection.

  • Invoice lines excluding tax (field TOTLINAMT)

This field indicates the excluding tax amount for the selected lines, expressed in the management currency of the company of the selected lines.

It is automatically calculated during the validation of the creation or the modification of the container. You can also recalculate it by using the action Total recalculation.

This field displays the company management currency.

Seal number

  • Seal number 1 (field SEANUM1)

Three free fields are available to enter the seal numbers.

Container capacity

Select the container that you want to use. It can simply be a "freight container" type.
The choice of the container determines the maximum weight and volume you can ship.

  • Max wgt. (field MAXWEI)

This field displays the maximum loading weight authorized for the selected freight container. It cannot be modified.

  • Container total wgt. (field CRRWEI)

This field displays the total freight container weight; that is, the total weight of the selected lines plus the tare weight. This weight is expressed in the freight container weight unit.

It is automatically calculated during the validation of the creation or the modification of the container. You can also recalculate it by using the action Total recalculation.

  • Volume (field TCTRVOL)

This field displays the freight container volume. It cannot be modified.

  • Usable volume (field USFVOL)

This field displays the maximum loading volume authorized for the selected freight container. It cannot be modified.

Totals

  • Line volume total (field TOTLINVOU)

This field displays the total volume of the selected lines, converted if necessary in the volume unit of the freight container.

It is automatically calculated during the validation of the creation or the modification of the container. You can also recalculate it by using the action Total recalculation.

This non-modifiable field displays the volume unit defined for the freight container.

  • Line weight total (field TOTLINWEU)

This field displays the total weight of the selected lines, converted if necessary in the weight unit of the freight container.

It is automatically calculated during the validation of the creation or the modification of the container. You can also recalculate it by using the action Total recalculation.

This non-modifiable field displays the weight unit defined for the freight container.

Available

  • Avail. weight (field AVAWEI)

This non-modifiable field displays the available freight container weight, that is to say, the maximum authorized loading weight from which the total weight of the selected lines is deducted.

SEEINFONo blocking control is applied to potential overload. When the maximum authorized loading weight has been reached, the available volume displayed is null but you can keep adding order lines.

  • Full (field FULFLG)

Select this flag to signal that the freight container is filled. This flag is only present for information purposes.

  • Available volume (field AVAVOL)

This non-modifiable field specifies the available volume of the freight container, that is to say, the usable volume from which the total volume of the selected lines is subtracted.

SEEINFONo blocking control is applied to potential overload. When the maximum authorized loading volume has been reached, the available volume displayed is null but you can keep adding order lines.

  • Filling rate (field TXWOU)

This field displays the fill rate of the freight container with respect to the usable volume. It cannot be modified.

It is automatically calculated during the validation of the creation or the modification of the container. You can also recalculate it by using the action Total recalculation.

 

Tab Lines

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The lines grid is populated from the picking you will perform in the selection panel.

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Fields

The following fields are present on this tab :

Grid

  • Order no. (field POHNUM)

Purchase order number.

  • Line (field POPLIN)

This is the purchase order line.

Ordered product reference.

  • Description (field ITMDES)

This is the description translated into the supplier's language.

  • Standard description (field ITMDES1)

This is the description from the product record.

This field displays the unit in which the order is done and cannot be modified.

  • Ordered qty. (field QTYUOM)

This field displays the ordered quantity. This quantity remains modifiable.

 

  • Weight (field QTYWEU)

This field contains the total weight of the order line, calculated according to the ordered quantity.

You can modify it.

This field displays the weight unit specified on the reference document.

  • Volume (field QTYVOU)

This field contains the total volume of the order line, calculated according to the ordered quantity.

You can modify it.

This field displays the volume unit specified on the reference document.

  • Line amount - tax (field LINAMT)

Order line excluding tax amount. This field is not editable.

This field displays the company management currency.

code of the issuing site of the order line.

This field, which cannot be modified, is a reminder on the incoterm displayed in the order header.

The Incoterm codes, set by the International Chamber of Commerce, seek to standardize the terms the most used in the international commerce by defining the respective responsibilities of the seller and the buyer agreed upon on establishement of the sales contract by a unique word similarly understood throughout the world.

The Incoterm code, controlled in Incoterm table is used in the INTRASTAT file (Exchange of goods declaration). It can also be used to define the price lists.

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Order

Click this action to directly access the Order function.

 

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Specific Actions

Click this action to enter selection criteria and refine the search of purchase orders.
The criteria that can be used are the following:

  • Site,
  • Supplier,
  • Product,
  • Order number.

You can use this action as you add order lines to the container : you can thus calculate or re-calculate the lines' weight total, volume total, and excluding tax amount total of selected lines.

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Options / Journal traceability

Click this action to access the Document traceability inquiry function. This function is used to view and browse through the hierarchy of journals at the origin or coming from the document.

Limitations

You cannot select:

  • open orders,
  • delivery requests originating from open orders,
  • inter-site or inter-company orders.
They are not displayed in the selection panel and cannot be accessed using the picking criteria.

Error messages

The only error messages are the generic ones.

Tables used

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