Shipment and shipment line charges

Shipment charges are extra costs incurred for a shipment or one or more shipment lines. These charges are specified for informational purposes and do not result in an invoice to the customer. You can specify multiple charges for a shipment or a shipment line.

Various options are available to select the required type of charge. A shipment charge consists of a type, an amount, a currency, and, optionally, a description.

For example, you can specify charges such as freight, insurance, or port handling for a shipment or a shipment line.

You can maintain shipment charges for shipments and shipment lines with the Projectedor the Open status.

Adding shipment and shipment line charges

If you only need to specify one shipment charge for a shipment, you can add this charge in the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session. To add additional charges, or charges for specific shipment lines, you must use the Shipment Charges (whinh4122m000) session.

To add shipment and shipment line charges, complete these steps:

  1. In the Kind of Charge field in the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session, select the preferred option.
  2. Specify an amount in the Charge Amount field.
  3. Optionally, change the default currency in the Currency field.
  4. To specify more charges for the shipment, or to add charges to shipment lines, click Shipment Charges next to the Currency field.
  5. In the Shipment Charges (whinh4122m000) session, click New.
  6. Select the preferred charge option, specify an amount, and optionally, add a description and change the currency.
  7. To add a shipment charge to a shipment line, add a shipment charge as described in the previous steps and in the Shipment Line field, specify a shipment line.
  8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to add more charges.
Note: Perform steps 4 - 8 to maintain shipment charges when you access the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session to add or maintain charges for a shipment for which one or more shipment charges are present, in which case the Kind of Charge field is set to Consolidated.

Maintaining shipment and shipment line charges

You can add multiple charges, each with a different currency.

You can add multiple charges with identical kinds of charges. For example, a Freight charge from Mumbai, India to Dubai, in AED (UAE Dirhams) and another Freight charge from Dubai to Rotterdam, Netherlands, in EUR.

You can add charges to multiple shipment lines, or add multiple charges to the same shipment line.

To show that one or more records are present in the Shipment Charges (whinh4122m000) session for a shipment, the Kind of Charge field is set to Consolidated in the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session.

The Charge Amount field in the Shipment (whinh4630m000) session shows the total amounts of the shipment and shipment line charges for the shipment that have been specified in the Shipment Charges (whinh4122m000) session. If multiple currencies are specified for the shipment or shipment line charges, the amounts in these currencies are converted to the shipment currency and aggregated.

Move or split shipment line

If you move a shipment line to another shipment, the total amount of any charges specified for the shipment line are moved from the originating shipment to the target shipment. The total amounts of the charges of the originating shipment and the destination shipment are updated accordingly.

In all other cases, when moving or splitting a shipment line, you can only manually adjust the total amount of the shipment charges.

When splitting a shipment line or moving a shipment line to another shipment, this message is displayed if shipment charges are present: “Shipment charges present for shipment <ID of shipment from which the shipment line is moved>. Continue?”

Removing warehousing orders and shipments

If you remove shipments related to warehousing orders in the Remove Warehousing Orders (whinh2250m000) session, the shipment charges present for the shipments are also deleted.

If you remove shipments in the Remove Confirmed and Canceled Shipments/Loads (whinh4250m000) session, the shipment charges present for the shipments are also deleted.