Create Freight Map and Enter Zone Definitions
Explanation
This activity is used to create the freight map header and enter the zones. A set of zones is called a freight
map.
A zone is an area or a region distinguished from adjacent zones geographically in order to calculate freight
rates. All customers whose delivery addresses belong to a single zone will have the same freight rate irrespective
of the distance from the supplier site's location. One map can have several ship-via’s depending on the
similarities of the ship-via method. i.e. If road transport and rail transport have similar distances, then both
ship-via’s can be included in one map.
Prerequisites
This activity has the following prerequisites:
- The required ship-via code must have been defined in the Ship Via Codes page.
- The owning site or the suppliers site must exist.
- If the Zone Defined By value in the zone definition is to be:
- States, and if a state is to be entered as a discrete value in the zone definition detail, that
state should have been defined in the States page.
- County, and if a county is to be entered as a discrete value in the zone definition detail, that
county should have been defined in the Counties page.
- City, and if a city is to be entered as a discrete value in the zone definition detail, that city
should have been defined in the Cities page.
Note: However in order to define states, counties or cities for a country, that country should have
been defined in the Address Setup per Country page.
System Effects
- A new freight map will be created having one or many zone definitions / ship-vias.
- It will not be possible to create another freight map, for this site and ship-via combination, after creating
this freight map.
- It will be possible to assign zones to the records in the supply chain matrix for the site.
- It will be possible to create a freight price list using these zones.