SOE FRGHT (Freight) Control Maintenance Records
The following control maintenance record belongs to the FRGHT (Freight)
area within the SOE (Sales Order Entry) category.
Auto Freight Posting MiscChrg Product
Enter the product record to use for posting auto-freight charges to
an order.
Back Out Pass-Along Freight From COGS
Indicate whether the system should remove the billed pass-along freight
amount from COGS and/or COMM (COST). 
More:
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Options
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No - Does not back out
the billed freight from COGS or COMM (COST). The landed
costs remain with freight included.
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COGS - Backs out the
billed freight amount from COGS.
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COGS/COMM - Backs out
the billed freight amount from COGS and COMM (COST).
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Outcome
of setting this control record
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Determines how
the system handles pass-along freight in the COGS and/or COMM
COST calculations. The system does not
back out freight from COGS, if COGS was overridden by a cost
override on a sell matrix, as indicated by an "!"
on the sales order. This is typically done for rebateable
items.
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Default
Value(s)
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No
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Action
if set to Null
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Same as if set
to No.
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Additional
Information
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This control maintenance
record is best optimized under the following scenarios:
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The
company must be capitalizing freight charges when receiving
purchase orders.
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The
company's Cost of Goods Sold Basis is Landed Average (COGS
+ freight).
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The
company bills pass-along freight charges to the customer
(or expenses freight).
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Clippership COD Ship Vias
Enter the ship vias for which Clippership should skip freight and handling
charges because they are COD ship vias. Clippership is a Windows-based
shipping system that you can integrate with Eclipse.
Clippership Collect Ship Vias
Enter the ship vias for which Clippership should skip freight and handling
charges because they are Collect ship vias. Clippership is a Windows-based
shipping system that you can integrate with Eclipse.
Expense Incoming Freight If
Customer Is Freight In Exempt
Indicate whether the system adds the cost of incoming freight on a purchase
order to a soft-tagged sales order as Expensed Incoming Freight, if the
customer does not pay freight. More:
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Options
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Outcome
of setting this control record
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If set to Yes, when a customer requests
a product that is unavailable the system suggests a buy of
the product. A prorated freight charge is expensed to offset
your chargers if this record is set to Yes,
and the customer is exempt from incoming freight. Freight
is added to the sales order as Expensed Incoming Freight.
This allows you to include the freight in the landed cost
for the inventory.
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Default
Value(s)
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No
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Dependencies
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The Pass Along Incoming Freight to Billable Freight
Customersrecord must be set to Yes.
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Action
if set to Null
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Same as if set
to No.
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Additional
Information
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For more information
and detailed examples of soft-tagged sales orders and freight
charges, see Pass-Along
Freight Rules.
Set a customer's incoming freight status
in the Freight In Exempt
field in Customer Maintenance.
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Freight Audit Queue Setup
New in Release
9.0.1. See ACCT AP Entry
for more information.
Pass Along Freight To Direct Sales
Orders
Use to apply different freight rules to direct sales orders than those
used for standard sales orders. The default is No.
If set to No, the remaining fields
are uneditable. If set to Yes,
but nothing is populated in the table, Eclipse passing along the freight
without the surcharge.
New in Release 9.0: Enhanced
format and pass along freight markups.
For full details about how this control maintenance record works, see
Applying
Freight Rules for Direct Sales Ordersin the Sales Management help documentation.
Pass Along Incoming Freight To
Billable Freight Customers
Indicate whether the system should pass incoming freight costs along
to customers who are not freight exempt. This record invokes the soft-tag
logic. More:
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Options
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Outcome
of setting this control record
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Setting this record
to Yes invokes the
soft-tag logic for sales order and allows you to pass incoming
freight charges on to customers who are not freight exempt
to help offset your expenses.
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Default
Value(s)
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No
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Action
if set to Null
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Same as if set
to No.
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Additional
Information
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For more information
and detailed examples of soft-tagged sales orders and freight
charges, see Pass-Along
Freight Rules.
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Product Ranks To Exclude From
Pass-Along Incoming Freight Charges
Specify the product ranks the system excludes from pass-along incoming
freight charges. More:
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Settings
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Rank Method(s)
to Check field - Select a ranking method (for example,
Demand).
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Rank(s)
to Exclude - Specify the product ranks, such as
A, B, and C, for which to not charge the customer for
incoming freight. To enter multiple ranks, type a rank
and press Enter,
then type the next rank and press Enter.
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Outcome
of setting this control record
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Prevents freight
from being passed to the customer for the shipment of material
that the distributor should always have available.
If a soft-tagged item has a product rank
equal to one of the ranks specified in this record, incoming
freight is not calculated.
If a soft-tagged item does not have a
product rank equal to one of the ranks specified in this record,
the system calculates the prorated billable incoming freight
amount from the received purchase orders and passes that amount
on to the customer as Incoming Freight: Billable.
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Default
Value(s)
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None
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Dependencies
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The Pass Along Incoming Freight to Billable Freight
Customersrecord must be set to Yes.
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Action
if set to Null
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All products, regardless
of rank are included when passing along incoming freight.
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Additional
Information
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For more information
and detailed examples of soft-tagged sales orders and freight
charges, see Pass-Along
Freight Rules.
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