Container Charges
Container charges can be assessed for any kind of container used during shipment, such as expendable containers or any container not already accounted for on the sales order line. You can predefine container charge amounts for each container item or for a specific container being sent to a specific customer. Container charges can also be calculated per unit, at a flat rate, or at a user-defined rate using customized external calculation routines.
Example: A produce packing house ships oranges to a juice-processing plant in returnable wooden crates. When the processing plant does not return the crates in a timely manner for reissue, the packing house must ship the oranges in disposable re-enforced cardboard crates. Because the customer did not return the wood crates in a timely manner, the packing house shipping clerk assesses a container charge at the line level for each disposable cardboard crate shipped to that customer.
You can assess container charges in the following functions:
• Sales Order Maintenance (7.1.1)
• Pending Invoice Maintenance (7.13.1)
• Customer Scheduled Order Maintenance (7.3.13)
The system references container information in the following functions:
• Container Workbench (7.7.1)
• SO Container Maintenance (7.7.5)
• Sales Order Shipper Maintenance (7.9.8)
• Pre-Shipper/Shipper Workbench (7.9.2)