Container and Line Charges Overview
In a highly competitive marketplace, the ability to track and invoice shipping containers associated with sales order lines, as well as tracking and invoicing other miscellaneous charges, are essential elements in an effective supply chain. Companies need a simple, fast, and effective mechanism to capture, review, and invoice shipping expenditures and miscellaneous information at the order-line level.
The Container and Line Charges (CLC) module provides suppliers a way to track and invoice customers for:
• Shipping containers, such as pallets, crates, or bins
• Extra line charges, such as shipping, painting, and detailing
Line charges and container charges are added at the order line-item level.
This module also supports the setup of flexible data entry points during the shipping process for recording and tracking shipping codes or related shipping information.
Using container and line charge functions, you can:
• Create unique container items based on items currently defined in the system.
• Create price lists for container items or ship-to and container item combinations.
• Create customized calculation methods to find extended prices for container or line charges.
• Set specific control options based on ship-from and ship-to combinations.
• Add miscellaneous line charges to sales orders, pending invoices, and scheduled orders. Optionally add them in container and shipper programs.
• Add container item charges to sales orders, pending invoices, and scheduled orders. Reference sales order line items and associated container charges in container and shipper programs.
• Track shipping codes such as AETC on scheduled orders, shippers, and ASNs.
• Create customized validation programs to validate shipping codes.
• Optionally include container charge and line charge details on ASNs.
• Specify the level of detail to print on invoices for container charges and line charges.
Note: Container and Line Charges is an element of the QAD PRO/PLUS functionality. Other PRO/PLUS elements include: