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Client Relationship
Consider a client to be a business unit. A client is used to separate the transactions within the application, mainly from a workflow perspective. Typically, you set up clients according to physical location. For example, if a company has warehouses in Rotterdam, Coventry, and Chicago, the administrator sets up a client for each location. Therefore, there is typically a 1:1 relationship between the client and Packing Location. However, you can choose other possible client to Packing Location relationships, as in Client Packing Location Relationship.

Client Packing Location Relationship
 
Relationship
Explanation
One client to one Packing Location
The most common configuration. The easiest naming convention is to give the Packing Location the same name as the PRECISION client.
One client to many Packing Locations
This configuration typically occurs when there is a single warehouse where all shipments are held in one PRECISION client. However, the warehouse is divided into different logical groupings of shipper accounts because the shipper has multiple business units located in a single warehouse or ships some packages through zone-skipping.
Many clients to one Packing Location
This configuration occurs if the shipments are divided by the PRECISION client for different divisions within the warehouse, but the freight is processed as one logical grouping. In this case, the shipper can split their PRECISION shipments by division, but use the same set of accounts to handle carrier freight costs.
To limit the Packing Locations used by a particular client, configure the system value CLIENT LOCATIONS - <CLIENT>. Only the available Packing Locations are then displayed to the user. The administrator can configure a default Packing Location for a user on the User screen. Select the desired Packing Location from the Deliver From field.
Note: A full list of relevant system values and their functions are contained in the Packing DomainLookups tab of Appendix A on the QAD Document Library in QAD Transportation Management|v2012 R00|Admin Guides|Appendices.