Creating carrier details

This page permits you to define the details of the carrier used for transportation of the goods. Tell me more

Select the “Create Carrier” link under the “Carrier” business component.

The “Create Carrier” page appears.

Enter the following:

Carrier Code	The unique code identifying the carrier (Alphanumeric, 20). Mandatory. Ensure that the carried code does not contain space or special characters. The carrier code must be unique in the login organization unit.
	Help facility available.

Note: If the help facility is used for carrier code, all the mandatory details pertaining to the carrier code are retrieved automatically.

The system displays the following field on clicking the “Create carrier” pushbutton:

Status	The status of the carrier, which can be “Active”, “Canceled” or “Inactive”.
	Active – indicates that the carrier has been newly created.
	Canceled – indicates that the carrier has been deleted.
	Inactive – indicates that the carrier code has been inactivated.

Enter the following details:

Carrier Name

The name of the carrier (Alphanumeric, 25). Mandatory.

Supplier Code

The code identifying the supplier, if the supplier is also being identified as a carrier (Alphanumeric, 16). The supplier code must have been defined in the “Supplier Master” business component and must have been mapped to the "carrier Code".

Help facility available

Note: The system throws an error, if the supplier code entered is already associated to a "carrier code".

Carrier Language	Use the drop-down list box to select a language for communication with the carrier.
Carrier Currency	Use the drop-down list box to select the currency used by the carrier. The system lists the currencies defined in the “Organization Setup“ business component.

The system displays the following field:

Carrier Registered At

The organization unit at which the carrier is registered.

Enter the following address details:

Address ID

The code identifying the address of the carrier (Alphanumeric, 6). Mandatory. Ensure that the address does not contain any space or special characters. If the specified address ID is present in the “Supplier Master” business component, the corresponding supplier code must be entered in the “Supplier Code” field.

The Address id should not be already present in the carrier master for some other carrier within the Login OU.

The system retrieves the details of the address ID from the “Supplier” component and fills in the following fields:

Contact Person	The name of the person who can be contacted (Alphanumeric, 80). Zoom facility available.
Address Line1	The first line of the address of the carrier (Alphanumeric, 40). Mandatory. Zoom facility available.
Address Line2	The second line of the address of the carrier, if any (Alphanumeric, 40). Zoom facility available.
Address Line3	The third line of the address of the carrier, if any (Alphanumeric, 40). Zoom facility available.
City	The name of the city (Alphanumeric, 40). Mandatory. Zoom facility available.
State	The name of the state (Alphanumeric, 40). Mandatory. Zoom facility available.
Country	The name of the country (Alphanumeric, 40). Mandatory. Zoom facility available.
Zip Code	The code identifying the area (Alphanumeric, 20). Mandatory.
Phone	The phone number of the carrier (Alphanumeric, 18).
Email	The e-mail ID of the carrier, if any (Alphanumeric, 60).
URL	The URL address of the carrier (Alphanumeric, 50). Zoom facility available.
Effective From	The date starting from which, the carrier code becomes effective for recording transactions (Date Format). Mandatory.
Effective To	The end date till which the carrier code is valid for recording transactions (Date Format). Ensure that this date is later than the “Effective From” date.

Note: The carrier code will not be recognized by the system while recording transactions that occur beyond this effective period.

Enter the following:

Delivery Area Code	The code identifying the area from where the goods are delivered (Alphanumeric, 18). Mandatory. This code must have been defined in the “Create Delivery Area” activity of the “Delivery Area” business component and must be in “Active” status.
	Help facility available.

The system displays the following on clicking the “Create Carrier” pushbutton:

Delivery Area Description

The description of the delivery area.

Check the box in the “Select” column of the multiline, to mark the delivery area for viewing its details.
Select the “View Delivery Area” link, to view the selected delivery area details.
Click the “Create Carrier” pushbutton to create the carrier.

The status of the carrier is set to “Active”. If the carrier is created for the first time, the “Carrier Registered At” field is set to the login organization unit.

The system displays the following fields:

Created By	The login user ID of the person who defined the carrier.
Created Date	The date on which the carrier was created.

To proceed, carry out the following:

Select the “Create Carrier Additional Addresses” link at the bottom of the page, to record additional addresses for the carrier.
Select the “Create Carrier Transportation Details” link at the bottom of the page, to record transportation details for the carrier.

Creating carrier details – An overview

This page permits you to define the details of the carrier used for transportation of the goods. The carrier information, address details and the delivery area that the carrier supports, must be specified.

Prerequisites

The carrier language must be defined in the “CLS” business component.
The carrier currency must be defined in the “Organization Setup” business component.
The delivery area code and delivery area description must be defined in the “Delivery Area” business component.
The transportation mode, reason code and reason must be defined in the “Category” business component.
The supplier details must be defined in the “Supplier” business component.