Enter Delivery Terms
Explanation
This activity is used to enter code values for the terms of delivery you
intend to use in your daily work. This mandatory task is to be performed by
a system administrator or an equivalent person.
Delivery terms are employed for customers and suppliers; they indicate
which delivery terms are valid for transporting. The delivery terms affect the
responsibility and costs for the delivery. You can enter the delivery terms
in different languages and provide translations of the descriptions. This allows
you to maintain different shipment carriers. In
addition delivery terms is used in shipment order.
Prerequisites
- For entering translated descriptions, language codes must be defined.
- If the Collect Freight Charges option is to be selected then
the Calculate Freight Charges option must have been selected first.
System Effects
- Delivery terms are defined for customers and suppliers.
It is also used for shipment order.
- If a translation of a description has been entered for a particular
language, the translated description will appear in sessions with the corresponding
language code.
- On external reports, the description will be printed in the customer's
or the supplier's language, provided that the translation exists.
- Customer record defaults appear in the Address/Order
Address Info.
- Supplier record defaults appear in the Supplier/Address/Purchase
Address Info.
- If the Calculate Freight Charges option has been selected,
this will trigger the freight calculation when entering a customer order
line.
- If the Collect Freight Charges option has been selected, this
will be the default value when entering a customer order line and when freight
charges are calculated.