Calculate/Consolidate Freight

Explanation

This activity is used to manually calculate and/or consolidate the freight charges. Observe that the activity is run automatically when releasing the customer order or sales quotation, but if changes are done to order lines after releasing the order or quotation, this calculation and consolation should be run manually.

This calculation is used to retrieve the prices that applies when several lines of the customer order/sales quotation are to be delivered together. The calculation fetches the prices based on the total order weight or volume. The charge price has been calculated for the order line's gross weight or volume, each time an order line is entered. But a different price might apply when looking at the whole order’s weight or volume, when the lines are to be delivered together. It considers the order lines that are to be delivered together that have the same map and zone, ship-via code, delivery date and delivery terms. By accumulating the quantities over several order lines, a higher volume is used for fetching the freight rate resulting in a better price than when you order the lines separately, one by one.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

System Effects

This activity has the following system effects:

Window

Customer Order
Sales Quotation

Related Window Descriptions

Customer Order
Sales Quotation

Procedure

  1. Open the Customer Order or Sales Quotation window and query for the required record.
  2. Right-click on the header and then click Calculate/Consolidate Freight.