The estimated freight costs set to Actual Cost Final for a load or a freight order cluster by the user, or the actual amount invoiced by a carrier to the shipping office to carry out the transportation of particular goods.

Charges for extra services, such as extra packaging, insurance, and so on. Additional costs are added to the freight costs of a shipment, load, or a freight order cluster. They are levied for shipment lines or freight order cluster lines, which can be invoiced to the customer. This depends on the agreements made with the business partner.

In Freight, an entity used to add extra costs to a shipment line or freight order cluster line. If a shipment line or freight order cluster line matches one or more of the properties of an additional cost set, extra charges are added to the shipment line or freight order cluster line. If the shipment line or freight order cluster line matches the properties of more than one additional cost set, all matching cost sets apply.

A quantity by unit against which you can define freight rates. You can choose from the units defined in Common. Many freight rates are based on distance and weight. Additional quantities/units enable you to define rates that are based on other units, such as volume, or define rates that are based on combinations of distance, weight, and other units.

Example 1

Freight rate by additional quantity/unit:

Additional Rate Quantity: 1 pallet, Distance: 1000 km

Amount by Distance: 10

Example 2

Freight rates by combinations of units by distance/zone:

Weight: 10 kg

Additional Rate Quantity: 1 m³

Break Type: Minimum

In this example, freight rates are based on distance by weight and volume. Shipment SH0001, from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, includes the following details: Distance: 70 km, Weight: 50 kg, Volume: 7 m³

The freight costs for shipment SH0001 are:

10 * 70 (distance) + 5 * 50 (weight) + 5 * 7 (volume) = 985 

A full set of address-related details, which include the postal address, access to telephone, fax, telex numbers, and email, Internet address, identification for taxation purposes, and routing information.

Inventory throughout all warehouses that is allocated to outbound order lines. After the inventory is shipped, that is, has left the warehouse, the allocation is deleted. Also referred to as standard allocation or soft allocation.

See also location allocated inventory

Commands are distributed across the Views, References, and Actions menus, or displayed as buttons. In previous LN and Web UI releases, these commands are located in the Specific menu.

A region used to group business partners, customers, suppliers and employees on a geographical basis.

The sum required to make one side of an account equal to the other side. In other words, the difference between the total of all the debit entries and the total of all the credit entries in an account. Whether it is a debit or a credit, this amount expresses the financial position of the particular account at the time the balance is struck.

The legal document used by the carrier that states what is transported (nature, quantity, weights, and so on) to what address.

A list of all parts, raw materials, and subassemblies that go into a manufactured item and show the quantity of each of the parts required to make the item. The BOM shows the single-level product structure of a manufactured item.

An entity used to specify how breaks between ranges of entities such as distances, amounts, or ordered quantities of items are defined. A break, in this case, is the first or the last number of a range. A break type has either of the following values:

Minimum The break is the lowest number of a range.

Example

In this case, the breaks are 10 and 50. Ordered quantities >= 10 and < 50 get a 3% discount. Ordered quantities of 50 and more get a 5% discount.

Up To The break is the highest number of a range.

Example

In this case, the breaks are 100 and 1000. For distances <= 100, the rate is 10. For distances > 100 and <= 1000, the rate is 50.

A set of definitions, that are used to build a list of calendar working hours. A calendar is identified by a calendar code and availability type combination.

The number of hours that a resource is used for production.

Alternatively, a percentage indicating the capacity use as a proportion of the total available capacity.

The number given by the carrier to identify the load or shipment. The carrier uses this number for tracking purposes.

A code used to identify volume- and weight classes.

Client rates are freight rates agreed on with an organization's business partners. These rates are maintained in the client freight rate books in Pricing. Client rates is also one of the invoicing methods used to calculate the invoice amount for freight costs.

A code that refers to the main properties of an item as they relate to transportation, such as:

• Foodstuffs
• Refrigerated goods
• Toxic materials

Combination codes are used to prevent the planning engine from creating loads or shipments from undesirable combinations of items. For example, foodstuffs must never be put in a shipment that also carries toxic materials. To achieve this, you provide foodstuffs with a combination code such as EAT, and toxic materials with a combination code such as TOX.

An entity that groups freight order lines which have a few attributes and attribute values in common, such as load/unload addresses, time windows, and so on. Combined freight orders are created by the load building engine as part of the load building process. The load building engine uses combined freight orders to create stops and trips, which in turn are used to build loads and shipments. A combined freight order is an intermediate piece of data, which provides no planning information, but you can use combined freight orders to analyze how a load plan was created.

A financial obligation that represents future costs.

A working environment in which you can carry out logistic or financial transactions. All the transaction data is stored in the company's database.

Depending on the type of data that the company controls, the company is:

• A logistic company.
• A financial company.
• A logistic and a financial company.

In a multicompany structure, some of the database tables can be unique for the company and the company can share other database tables with other companies.

A set of applications and their related data.

A cost component is a user-defined category for the classification of costs.

Cost components have the following functions:

• To break down an item's standard cost, sales price, or valuation price.
• To create a comparison between the estimated production order costs and the actual production order costs.
• To calculate production variances.
• To view the distribution of your costs over the various cost components in the Cost Accounting module.

Cost components can be of the following cost types:

• Operation Costs
• Material Costs
• Surcharge
• General Costs
• Not Applicable

An administrative item that is used to post extra costs to an order. Extra costs are, for example, accounting expenses, clearance charges, design costs, and freight expenses.

Cost items are not used for production and cannot be held in inventory. They are also referred to as expense items.

An administrative item that represents certain expenses. The item is not a physical product and cannot be handled logistically.

Countries are the national states where your suppliers and customers are located. For each country you can define the country code, international dialing, telex, and fax codes.

Countries are part of the data that you must set up for tax reporting. In addition, items can be grouped and selected according to their country of origin.

Lines that store the information on the costs incurred, amounts to be invoiced, and the amounts covered by the applicable contract and/or warranty. Most coverage lines are added through the maintenance sales order process, but can also be manually entered.

A generally accepted medium of exchange such as coins, treasury notes, and banknotes.

The following currency types are available in LN:

• Home currency, which is used internally by companies to calculate costs, record budgets, and register tax amounts
• Transaction currency, which is used in transactions with business partners, such as orders and invoices

A reason code that indicates who is to pay for the transportation of the goods.

The agreements with the business partner, concerning the way the goods are delivered. Relevant information is printed on various order documents.

The terms or agreements concerning the delivery of goods.

A company's organizational unit that carries out a specific set of tasks, for example, a sales office or a purchase office. Departments are assigned number groups for the orders they issue. The department's enterprise unit determines the financial company to which the financial transactions that the department generates are posted.

A planning method, also called planning algorithm, where a shipment is transported directly from the start address to the end address. If the direct shipment algorithm is used, a load only has one shipment. If the available means of transport cannot carry the entire shipment, the shipment is divided over various vehicles. Order lines can be combined in a shipment if the addresses and the dates match.

The time limit prior to a freight order's planned load or unload date/time by which you can exceed the planned load or unload date/time. The time limit is expressed in user-definable time units.

The time limit prior to a freight order's planned load date/time by which you can exceed the planned load date/time. The time limit is expressed in user definable time units.

The time limit prior to a freight order's planned unload date/time that you can exceed the planned unload date/time. The time limit is expressed in user-definable time units.

The first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The effective date often includes the effective time.

A financially independent part of your organization that includes entities such as departments, work centers, warehouses, and projects. The enterprise unit's entities must all belong to the same logistic company, but a logistic company can contain multiple enterprise units. An enterprise unit is linked to a single financial company.

When you carry out logistic transactions between enterprise units, the resulting financial transactions are posted to the financial companies to which each enterprise unit is linked.

The estimated costs of transportation for a shipment, load, or freight order cluster. LN calculates the estimated freight costs during load building or freight order clustering. The estimated freight cost is are calculated with the rate retrieved from Pricing, the travelling distance derived from the ship-from and ship-to addresses, and the total quantities of the goods to be transported. The estimated costs can also be manually entered by the user.

A way to group currency exchange rates. You can assign different currency exchange rates to different invoice-to business partners and/or to different types of transactions (purchase, sales, and so on).

A company that is used for posting financial data in Financials. You can link one or more enterprise units from multiple logistic companies to one financial company.

The first available number within a series. When you create orders, and so on, this number is offered by default. Series enable you to group orders of the same type by assigning order numbers starting with the same figures.

An agreed exchange rate that is used, for example, for a project, regardless of future exchange-rate fluctuations.

The exchange rate agreed upon by contract with your bank or business partner (in order to avoid a currency loss).

A classification of an item in terms of:

• Product density (pounds per square foot)
• Stowage (size, weight, and shape)
• Handling
• Liability (the item's value)

Freight classification is a criteria that is used to determine an item's transportation price. In LN, a freight class can also serve as a criterion that determines the planning group of order lines. Freight classes are mainly used in the U.S.

The estimated transport costs of shipments and loads. The estimated freight costs are based on the carrier rates maintained in Pricing, and the most recent information available on the quantities, volumes, and/or weights of the goods to be transported. During loading, transportation, or transfer changes can be made to the quantities, weights, or volumes of the goods.

If the freight costs have been calculated and invoiced to the customer before the invoice from the carrier has been received, and the amount invoiced to the customer is different from the amount of the carrier invoice, it is possible to charge the customer with the difference. This is controlled by parameter settings: if the difference is greater than a given percentage or amount, the customer is invoiced with the difference.

A commission to transport a particular number of goods. A freight order includes an order header and one or more order lines.

A freight order header includes some general information, such as the delivery date and the name and address of the customer who is to receive the goods listed on the freight order.

A freight order line includes an item to be transported and some details about the item, such as the quantity and the dimensions.

A freight order cluster is a group of freight order lines with matching properties, such as shipping offices, planning groups, overlapping time windows, transport means groups, and so on, that is subcontracted to a carrier. The carrier will plan and carry out the transportation of the goods listed on the freight order lines according to the subcontracting order.

The process of generating freight order clusters from freight order lines.

A freight order entry. A freight order header includes some general information about a freight order, such as the delivery date and the name and address of the customer who is to receive the goods listed on the freight order.

A freight order header originates from a purchase-, sales-, warehouse-, or planned distribution order, or can be created manually.

A freight order entry. Freight order lines include information about an item to be transported entered on a freight order. A freight order line originates from a purchase-, sales-, warehouse-, or planned distribution order, or can be created manually.

A code used to identify and group freight orders.

A rate that is used to calculate transportation costs for items listed on loads, shipments, and the following types of orders:

• Freight orders
• Sales orders
• Sales quotations

Freight rates are defined in freight rate books in Pricing. A freight rate is defined by distance, weight, and various other attributes.

Example

The reservation of inventory for an order without taking into account the physical storage of the goods within the warehouse. Previously referred to as hard allocation.

The way in which the inventory is handled, both physically and in LN, if BOM items or list items are received or issued.

The inventory can be handled:

• By Main Item.
• By Component.

The unit of measure in which the inventory of an item is recorded, such as piece, kilogram, box of 12, or meter.

The inventory unit is also used as the base unit in measure conversions, especially for conversions that concern the order unit and the price unit on a purchase order or a sales order. These conversions always use the inventory unit as the base unit. An inventory unit therefore applies to all item types, also to item types that cannot be kept in stock.

The currency in which the invoice amount is expressed.

The date on which the invoice is printed.

The business partner that sends invoices to your organization. This usually represents a supplier's accounts receivable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, invoicing method and frequency, information about your organization's credit limit, the terms and method of payment, and the related pay-to business partner.

The identification of an invoice, which consists of the transaction-type code and the first free number in the series used for invoices for the order type.

The business partner to which you send invoices. This usually represents a customer's accounts payable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, invoicing method and frequency, information about the customer's credit limit, the terms and method of payment, and the related pay-by business partner.

The raw materials, subassemblies, finished products, and tools that can be purchased, stored, manufactured, and sold.

An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or which exist in multiple product variants.

You can also define nonphysical items, which are not retained in inventory but can be used to post costs or to invoice services to customers. The examples of nonphysical items:

• Cost items (for example, electricity)
• Service items
• Subcontracting services
• List items (menus/options)

A group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item type to set up item defaults.

A classification of items used to identify if the item is, for example, a generic item, a service item, or an equipment item. Depending on the item's type, certain functions will only apply to that item.

The language in which the company communicates and in which the work instructions are printed.

The percentage that is charged over the goods amount or over rendered services that the recipient of the invoice must pay if the invoice is not paid within a specified period.

The time limit following a freight order's planned load or unload date/time by which you can exceed the planned load or unload date/time. The time limit is expressed in user-definable time units.

The time limit following a freight order's planned load date/time by which you can exceed the planned load date/time. The time limit is expressed in user-definable time units.

The time limit following a freight order's planned unload date/time that you can exceed the planned unload date/time. The time limit is expressed in user-definable time units.

Part of a route plan. For each leg you can specify a separate transport category, transport means group, and/or carrier.

The following types of transport legs exist:

• Advance
• Main
• Beyond

The largest consignment for which Freight plans transportation. A load contains a number of goods that are transported by a means of transport that belongs to a transport means group travelling to a given destination on a given date/time via a specific route. A load can contain more than one shipment, for example if the consolidation planning algorithm is used.

In LN, all goods and/or shipments carried by one means of transport on a specific date and time and using a specific route.

The freight planning engine of Freight. The load building engine groups goods that require transportation into shipments and loads.

The end result of a production order.

A main item is either be changed to an end item (for delivery to a warehouse), or delivered directly to the customer in bulk.

A warehouse from which goods are shipped that are issued from a specific group of connected warehouses called subwarehouses.

An entity in which you can define the attributes of a plan matrix.

An individual identifiable means of transport used for freight planning and freight order clustering, such as:

• Truck
• Airplane

For load building and freight order clustering purposes, Freight checks the availability of individual means of transport, if specified for a load or a freight order line.

A reason code that indicates why transportation takes place, for example, Repair, Sales, Transfer, and so on.

A group of first free number series that you can assign to a specific use.

For example, you can assign a number group to:

• Business partner codes
• Purchase contracts
• Sales orders
• Production orders
• Service orders
• Warehousing orders
• Freight orders

Within a number group you can define multiple series. Each series is identified by the series code. The series numbers that LN generates consist of the series code followed by the first free number in the series. Series codes of the same number group have the same length.

A symbol or other character that indicates an operation that acts on one or more elements. In this case, the elements are the old value in the Value From field and the other value in the Range Value To field.

The date on which the order is manually specified or is automatically generated.

The source of the information on which an order is based, such as LN sessions, or user defined sources such as phone, mail, and so on.

The order set groups order lines of the same order.

The order lines are grouped if the following attributes match:

• Ship-from partner
• Ship-to partner
• Ship-from address
• Ship-to address
• Carrier
• Shipping date
• Original company

The order from which an order is created. For example, if a warehousing order is created from a sales order, the sales order is the originating order of the warehousing order.

A particular configuration of items and their packaging. A package definition for an item can, for example, be the following: a pallet contains 12 boxes and each box contains 4 pieces.

The business partner from whom you receive payments. This usually represents a customer's accounts payable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, the customer's bank relation, the type of reminders you send to the business partner, and the frequency of sending reminders.

The way in which the payment (purchase invoice) or the direct debit (sales invoice) takes place. The payment method defines details such as, the maximum amount, the type of due date, if foreign currencies are allowed, and which details must be printed on the report.

These details are default values that you can change on the order or invoice as necessary.

Agreements about the way in which invoices are paid.

The payment terms include:

• The period within which invoices must be paid.
• The discount granted if an invoice is paid within a given period

The payment terms allow you to calculate:

• The date on which the payment is due
• The date on which the discount periods expire
• The discount amount

The business partner to whom you pay invoices. This usually represents a supplier's accounts receivable department. The definition includes the default currency and exchange rate, the supplier's bank relation, the number of days within which you must pay the invoices, and if the business partner uses a factoring company.

The basic unit used to indicate the loading capacity of a means of transport. For example, loading metre. If a truck has a capacity of 15 loading metres, and an item is 0.01 loading metres, the truck can hold 1,500 items. Other examples: pallet, crate, or box. In the latter cases, the loading unit is also the unit or type of container used to load the means of transport, which can be defined as handling units. See also handling unit.

Piece units are used in load building and loading capacity requirement checks.

Specifies the activity structure, the schedule, and the start and end dates. You can maintain alternative plans for a single project. The active plan is the one you actually use to track progress.

A set of attributes and values used as selection criteria for a planning group.

For example, a plan matrix can include the following values:

• Transport means group: TNK (tankers).
• Ship-to business partner: Tradex PLC.

These characteristics are used to allocate freight order lines to planning groups. If the values defined in the plan matrix of a given planning group match values of particular freight order lines, these freight order lines are allocated to the planning group.

The date and time loading is planned at the ship-from location.

The date and time unloading is planned at the ship-to location.

An entity that is used to group freight order lines into shipments and loads or freight order clusters.

Each freight order line is allocated to a planning group. Freight order lines with different planning groups cannot be in the same shipment, load, or freight order cluster. For example, all goods destined for Belgium are subdivided into planning group Belgium.

From a hierarchical perspective, the planning group is one level below the shipping office. A shipping office has one or more planning groups. Freight orders are grouped into shipping offices, the underlying freight order lines are grouped into the planning groups of the shipping office.

The point at which the legal ownership changes. At this point, the risk passes from the seller to the buyer.

The number used to identify the position of the order line on the sales or purchase order.

A group of items to which the same pricing characteristics apply.

An endeavor with a specific objective to be met within the prescribed time and financial limitation, and that has been assigned for definition or execution.

A purchase order property that enables you to identify the kind of purchase made and in this way, the kind of payable. This property is used to post the purchase to the correct Accounts Payable account when the invoice is created. To post a purchase invoice, LN retrieves the control account from the purchase type linked to the purchase order line.

A code in LN representing a combination of a freight class, transport means group, transport type, and/or planning group.

In Freight, rate basis numbers are used to determine the carrier rates for the following entities:

• Shipments
• Loads
• Sales order lines
• Sales quotation lines

A rate basis number is allocated to a shipment, load, order line, or quotation line if the freight class, transport means group, transport type and/or planning group of the shipment or load match those defined for the rate basis number.

In Pricing, freight rate books are linked to rate basis numbers. A rate basis number allocated to a shipment, load, and so on, will in turn point to a freight rate book from where freight rates can be picked up.

The method to decide which date is used to determine the exchange rates.

During the composing process, all amounts in foreign currencies are converted to the home currency, based on the determined exchange rate.

The factor by which the amount in the transaction currency or the invoice currency is divided before LN converts it to a home currency. A rate factor is often used for currencies that have a relatively low price, for example, Korean Won.

A user-defined standardized description of the reason for a particular decision or choice. A reason's type determines for which purpose you can use that reason.

To include additional information about an action, you can select and enter a reason from a list. LN can also print the reason in the relevant report.

A user-defined description that is based on a transaction and its type. Reason codes assist in selecting data for inquiry and for reporting.

Any informative description field used to refer to, for example:

• The person or department with authorization to perform a specific task.
• The business partner's contact.
• The original invoice number.

An order that is associated with the originating order of a freight order. For example, for multi-company warehouse transfers, the ship-from warehouse order is the originating order, and the ship-to warehouse order is the related order if the ship-to and the ship-from orders belong to different companies. For direct deliveries, the purchase order is the originating order and the sales order is the related order.

The revision-controlled items are items in continuous development. To identify the item's version, add a revision number to the item code.

If a revision-controlled item is selected, the current version is used. The obsolete versions are no longer manufactured and prototypes are not sold yet.

A module in Freight that provides estimates of both available transport capacity and required transport capacity in a given period of time. Using Rough Planning, those responsible for freight planning can see how much transport capacity is available to them, how much they need, and, if necessary, arrange additional capacity from their carriers.

Line of travel from your warehouses to the ship-to or ship-from business partner's warehouse and vice versa. Use routes to group business partners that are located in the same area or along one convenient route.

You can arrange addresses by routes to print picking lists and shipping notes sorted by route.

A network of loading and unloading addresses, one of which is a pooling point. A route plan is usually defined for routes that involve multi-modal transport. A route plan consists of one or more legs. Each leg, or part of the route, can be handled differently depending on the specified transport category and transport means group.

A priority code or number defining the position of the carrier in the sequence of carriers used for a shipment. Where more than one carrier is used, one must be first, the next is second, and so on.

A sales order property that allows you to identify the kind of sale made and the kind of receivable. This property is used to post the sales to the correct Accounts Receivable account when the invoice is created. To post a sales invoice, LN retrieves the control account from the sales type linked to the sales order line, project contract, and so on.

An alternative form of a description used for convenience during searching. Typically, it is an abbreviation, an acronym, or a mnemonic alternative to a full description.

A subdivision of the item code in different logical parts, called segments.

These segments are visible in the sessions as separate fields. Examples of segments are:

• Project segment
• Cluster segment
• Item identification

The number that identifies a data record or a step in a sequence of activities. Sequence numbers are used in many contexts. Usually LN generates the sequence number for the next item or step. Depending on the context, you can overwrite this number.

The number used to identify in detail the position number of a sales order (delivery) line or a purchase order line (detail).

A group of order numbers or document numbers starting with the same series code.

Series identify orders with certain characteristics. For example, all sales orders handled by the large accounts department start with LA (LA0000001, LA0000002, LA0000003, and so on).

The level of service offered by a carrier in connection with goods transports, such as speedy delivery, delivery within twelve hours, and so on. Usually, a service level is related to the freight rates that a carrier uses to calculate prices for transportation services.

The costs required to carry out a service order, that cannot be classed as material costs or labor costs.

A code used, together with the ship-from type, to identify the exact source of a warehousing order.

The ship-from type is used, together with the ship-from code, to identify the exact source of a warehousing order.

The ship-from type can have the following values:

• Business Partner
• Warehouse
• Work Center
• Project

The smallest consignment for which Freight plans transportation. A shipment is an identifiable part of a load, and contains a number of goods that are transported to a given destination on a given date/time via a specific route.

All goods that are transported to a specific address on a specific date and time by using a specific route. An identifiable part of a load.

An entity that provides information about one of the items listed on a shipment, such as the weight, the quantity, or the additional costs.

An individual line of detail in a shipment.

A procedure that is carried out when a warehouse order or a shipment is processed for transportation. In a shipment procedure, you can specify which transport documents (packing list, packing slip, or Bill of Lading) must be printed when the shipment is transported. For each shipment, a shipment procedure is defined. If a shipment obtains the Confirmed status, the documents specified in the shipment procedure are printed.

A department that is responsible for the organization of transportation for one or more warehouses. When goods are moved from or to a warehouse, the responsible shipping office plans the transportation of these goods or subcontracts the transportation of the goods. In direct delivery scenarios, the shipping office provides planning or transport subcontracting services for external suppliers or customers.

In Freight, a shipping office plays a key role in load building and freight order clustering. Freight orders are grouped by shipping office. The groups of freight orders by shipping office are used by the load building engine to build shipments and loads, or by the freight order clustering engine to build freight order clusters.

A code used, together with the ship-to type, to identify where goods are shipped to.

The ship-to type is used, together with the ship-to code, to identify where goods are shipped to.

The ship-to type can have the following values:

• Business Partner
• Warehouse
• Work Center
• Project

A business location of an enterprise that can maintain its own logistical data. It includes a collection of warehouses, departments and assembly lines at the same location. Sites are used to model the supply chain in a multisite environment.

These restrictions apply to sites:

• A site cannot cross countries. The warehouses and departments of the site must be in the same country as the site.
• A site is linked to one planning cluster. Consequently, all warehouses and work centers of a site must belong to the same planning cluster.
• A site is linked to one logistic company.

You can link a site to an enterprise unit or an enterprise unit to a site.

If an enterprise unit is linked to a site, the entities of the site belong to the enterprise unit. Conversely, if a site is linked to an enterprise unit, the entities of the enterprise unit belong to the site.

The business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, who owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Usually a customer's purchase department.

The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include:

• Default price and discount agreements
• Sales order defaults
• Delivery terms
• The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner

A standard route is a fixed route that is traveled with a particular frequency, such as a truck that visits delivery and/or loading addresses according to a fixed schedule, a rail service, or a boat service. Usually, transportation via standard routes costs less than travel via non-fixed routes. For example, you can define a route like Amsterdam via Rotterdam to Antwerp that is run once a day.

A loading and/or unloading activity at an address. This activity is created from the loading and unloading addresses of a combined freight order. Stops are created by the load building engine as part of the load building process. The load building engine uses stops to create shipments. A stop is an intermediate piece of data, which provides no planning information, but you can use stops to analyze how a load plan was created.

An entity listing the items to be loaded or unloaded at a stop address.

The unit in which the quantity of goods stored is expressed.

Example

Storage unit: box

Inventory unit: liter

Subcontracting instructions constitute the subcontracting order for a carrier. The subcontracting instructions list the goods for which the carrier is to carry out the transportation.

A phantom item that represent a number of component items or a main item for a (sub-) assembly.

A distribution link between a supplying planning cluster and a receiving planning cluster. The planning clusters involved can be in the same company, or in different companies.

Enterprise Planning uses supplying relationships for distribution planning: the supplying relationships represent valid supply paths for particular items or groups of items. You can specify supplying relationships at the level of individual items, but also at more general levels.

The supplying relationships also determine the costs of supply, lot size rules, and other parameters.

A code that identifies the tax rate and which determines how LN calculates and registers tax amounts.

A number used to identify legal persons or businesses. The tax authorities assign the tax numbers to the registered businesses. Your business partners must provide you with their tax number. Business partners without a tax number are considered to be private persons.

A number used to identify legal persons or businesses. The tax authorities assign the tax numbers to the registered businesses. Your business partners must provide you with their tax number. Business partners without a tax number are considered to be private persons.

The time span between a minimum and a maximum date. Usually, the minimum or maximum date is a loading or unloading date.

An item representing a group of items that make up a set, for example, an airplane modification set consisting of the materials and tools to convert a passenger plane to a freight carrier plane, or the end-item - the highest level - of a bill of material (BOM) of a manufactured item. A topkit consists of various subkits.

The date on which the order is changed and/or written to the history file. For each change, LN inserts a new line and a new transaction date. This applies to any type of order.

Among other things, the transaction date is important for:

• Scheduling
• Statistics
• Determining due dates and currency exchange rates

A user-defined three-position code used to identify documents. The series linked to the transaction type give documents the sequence number.

A combined means of transport that consists of various vehicle types and/or means of transport which jointly transport a load. If a transport means combination includes more than one means of transport, Freight can perform load building for more than one means of transport per load. Transport means combinations are also used in freight order clustering. A transport means combination shows the combined means of transport that is to transport the goods listed on a freight order cluster.

A classification used to group means of transport, such as:

• Vans
• Trucks
• Container ships
• Cargo aircraft

For each group, properties are defined, such as:

• The average speed
• The loading capacity

Each means of transport defined in Freight belongs to a transport means group. For example, transport means group: Vans, means of transport: van with licence number XX333444 .

A code that refers to special properties of a means of transport, or of a transport means group, such as:

• Cold storage
• Armored; high security

Transport types are used in the load building and freight order clustering engines of the Freight package. The main purpose of Transport types is to ensure that items are transported by a means of transport that has particular properties. Transport types are also used as a criterion to determine the costs of transportation.

A unique identification of a group of stops.

The physical quantity in which an item or good is managed. For example, a quantity of wood can be expressed as a length by using the unit of one meter, or as a volume by using the unit of one cubic meter.

A reference to a particular type of vehicle, such as tractor, trailer, container, and so on.

A vehicle type has various properties, such as:

• With or without loading capacity
• Self-propelled

A classification that expresses a range of volumes, for example, from 1 ltr to 10 ltr.

Volume classes (optional) are used to determine the planning group of freight order lines.

A place for storing goods. For each warehouse, you can enter address data and data relating to its type.

The warehouse from which the issue takes place.

A classification that expresses a range of weights, for example from 10 kg to 50 kg.

Weight classes are optionally used to determine the planning group of freight order lines.

A number that identifies each postal delivery area.

ZIP codes are used:

• To sort customer data by address/area.
• To determine in which taxation jurisdiction the address is located.
• To calculate the distances between delivery addresses.

ZIP codes are printed on forwarding documents on which no further address data is printed. The ZIP/postal code does not appear in the address lines on order documents.

A distance or a geographical area. Zones are used to define freight rates. To define a freight rate, the geographical area defined by the zone is linked to a freight amount in Pricing. Thus the freight rate is used to calculate the transportation costs of goods transports that take place in the area defined by the zone. In other words, all goods transports within the area go for the same rate, provided that the other factors that make up the rate, such as basic weight or carrier, apply.

The following types of zones are available:

• ZIP
• City
• Distance
• Not Applicable
• Note: The Zone type is not used to define freight rates in Pricing.

A zone of the City type. Zones of this type are defined by an origin city in an origin country and a destination city in a destination country. For each zone, you can define several origin country/city and destination country/city combinations.

Example

Zone ZC1 Origin country: The Netherlands. Origin city: Amsterdam. Destination country: The Netherlands. Destination city: Rotterdam.

Zone ZC2 Origin country: United Kingdom. Origin city: London. Destination country: Belgium. Destination city: Antwerp.

Zone ZC3 Origin country: The Netherlands. Origin city: Amsterdam. Destination country: The Netherlands. Destination city: The Hague. Origin country: The Netherlands. Origin city: Amsterdam. Destination country: The Netherlands. Destination city: Utrecht.

A zone of the Distance type. A Zone of this type consists of a distance.

Example

ZD1 100 Kilometres

ZD2 500 Kilometres

ZD3 1000 Kilometres

A zone of the ZIP type. A zone of this type consists of a geographical area that is defined by one or more origin areas and one or more destination areas. The origin area consists of an origin country and an origin area. The destination area consists of a destination country and a destination area. Both the origin and the destination areas (which bear no relation to the areas defined in Common) are defined by ranges of ZIP codes. The places in between the origin and destination areas are included in the zone.

Example

Zone ZC1: Origin country: The Netherlands. Origin area: zip codes 1000 AA to 1050 ZZ (Amsterdam and surrounding area). Destination country: The Netherlands. Destination area: 3100 AA to 3145 ZZ (Rotterdam and surrounding area).