Shipping

Transportation Means Description on Shipping Documents

The Transportation Means Description Code property values are defined for the TransportMeans code list by navigating to the Manage Code Properties dialog box from the Manage Codes window. For each Transportation Means Description Code defined, there can be a corresponding value for EDIFACT, ASC X12, and/or VDA code, depending on which shipping document(s) the code should appear. For example, a value is defined for EDIFACT and VDA if the specified transportation means description code must appear on the ASN for both types.

When creating carrier master data on the Carrier Master Details page, the Transportation Means Description Code field is defined on the Customer Data tab.

The Transportation Means Description Code is also stored in the Shipping area of the application. Specifically, the code is assigned on the detail view of the Shippers page on the Carrier and Transportation tab under the Transportation Information section.

To ensure the required information appears on the shipping documents, this TransportMeansDescriptionCode element must be included in the ProcessShipment BOD:

Shipment/ShipmentHeader/UserArea/Property/NameValue@name=„ ae.TransportMeansDescriptionCode - The element is the field „Name“ from the code list TransportMeans

These are the new elements included in the Shipment Document Print Request:

/Data/Body/Consignment/TransportMeansDescriptionCode - The element value is the name/ID from the code list TransportMeans

/Data/Body/Consignment/TransportMeansDescriptionCode@VDACode - The element is the value from the column VDA Code in the corresponding code list TransportMeans entry

/Data/Body/Consignment/TransportMeansDescriptionCode@EDIFACTCode - The element is the value from column EDIFACT Code in the corresponding code list TransportMeans entry.

/Data/Body/Consignment/TransportMeansDescriptionCode@X12Code - The element is the value from column X12 Code in the corresponding code list TransportMeans entry

/Data/Body/Consignment/TransportMeansDescriptionCode@ShortDescription - The element is the value from column Short Description in corresponding code list TransportMeans entry (in the selected customer print language)