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 the sales quotation order lines after releasing the quotation, this calculation and consolidation should be run manually. However changes done to the customer order lines after releasing, e.g. update of quantity, date, ship-via, delivery terms, freight zone, or adding a new order line or cancelling an existing order line, will trigger an automatic consolidation.
This calculation is used to retrieve the prices that apply 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.
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