# of Entries

Specify the number of entries in a rate table.

Apply Discount

Select to indicate whether a discount is applied to a charge.

Billable

Select to specify whether the rate is billable to the customer.

Branch Plant

Enter an alphanumeric code that identifies a separate entity within a business for which you want to track costs. For example, a business unit might be a warehouse location, job project, work center, branch, or plant.

You can assign a business unit to a document, entity, or person for purposes of responsibility reporting. For example, the system provides reports of open accounts payable and accounts receivable by business unit to track equipment by responsible department.

Business unit security might prevent you from viewing information about business units for which you have no authority.

Carrier Number

Specify the carrier assigned to complete a shipment or part of a shipment. This could represent a common carrier or a private fleet.

Carrier Zone

Enter the identifier used by a carrier to specify a specific zone.

Clipped Rate

Select to indicate whether rate clipping is used to calculate a rate.

Detail Level

Specify the shipment detail field that determines a rate when the charge is applied at the shipment detail level. You can specify one of these fields:

• Freight Classification Code

• Dispatch Group

• Freight Category 1

• Freight Category 2

Discount Minimum

Select to indicate whether a discount should be applied even if the minimum charge is calculated.

Distance Source

Enter the source of the distance for a delivery. The source could be a preference, carrier agreement, entered by the user, or retrieved from a mileage system.

Document Type

Document type is a user-defined code (00/DT) that identifies the origin and purpose of the document. Enter the document type to use as the default value or select it from the Select User Define Codes form. For example, you can specify the default document type associated with the purchase order for a subcontract routing.

Freight Classification

Enter the National Motor Freight Classification (NV) which is assigned according to the freight commodity code. This is the default information for items that do not have a freight class.

Lookup Type 1

Specify the field to use to look up a charge in a table, such as weight or cubes. The system allows 25 columns for lookup type 1.

Lookup Type 2

Specify a second field to use to look up a charge in a table. The system allows 999 rows for lookup type 2.

Options and Equipment

Identify a user-defined option or piece of equipment which is associated with a shipment or which is required in order to make a shipment.

Payable

Select this option to specify whether the rate is payable to a carrier as part of the freight costs.

Rate Basis

Enter the basis that is used to calculate the charge.

Rate Level

Specify whether a rate is applied to an entire shipment or to individual pieces on a shipment. Depending on how the rate is applied to a shipment, the rates are added together for a total freight cost or piece level, or at a detail level where the shipment is rated as a combination of both the shipment and piece level. This field also indicates how a load is rated versus how a shipment is rated.

Rate Name

Enter the name of the rate used to define and calculate a freight charge.

Rate Schedule

Specify the schedule of freight and miscellaneous charges which are applied to a shipment.

Rate Structure

Enter the name of the rate structure that is associated with this rate.

Rate Type

Enter the type of rate specified in a table. This could be a fixed amount or percentage, for example

Rate Unit of Measure

Enter the unit of measure to which the rate applies. For example, if the rate unit of measure is tons, the amount is obtained by multiplying the weight in tons times the rate.

Route Code

Enter the user-defined code that represents the delivery route on which the customer resides. This field is one of several factors used by the freight summary facility to calculate potential freight charges for an order.

Shipment Depot

Enter the code that specifies the shipment depot. If a specific depot is not defined as the default depot, the system retrieves default information for depot ALL.