Re: Billing Freight

James,

What we did was to obtain the LTL Freight rates from Roadway. We got them
on tape then loaded them into a PF on our AS/400. Then based on the weight,
ship from zip and ship to zip we can pretty closely estimate what the
freight will be. We then took it one step further and added a discount
percentage by which we adjust for other carriers. We actually drill the
discount down to the state to which the invoice is shipped. We do not use
COM or OE&I. We have a home grown order entry. I'm not sure what would be
required to implement this solution into Mapics.


Good Luck,

Mark


Mark Walter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
mwalter@hanoverwire.com
http://www.hanoverwire.com
717.637.3795 Ext.3040



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I have a client who wants to bill the freight charges at the same time they
bill the material.  Sounds easy, but the problem occurs with freight
companies.

The current method is to bill the customer for the freight amount after the
client recieves the bill from the freight company.  This usually is a few
weeks after the material was shipped.

When shipping UPS this is not a problem thanks to the UPS software
calculating
the freight amount and the Shipping Department can just add the freight
charge
then.  Having the Shipping Department figure out the freight amount for
truck
orders is not an option, unless it is as easy as the UPS method.

The client has looked at a package from AR Traffic Consultants that is
supposed to integrate into MAPICS with a little programing.  Cost of that
package is holding up the approval for that solution.

How do other people handle this and what are the pros/cons of doing it that
way?

Thanks for any input.
Jimmy

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