Shipping Agent
This page is originally Business Central Standard, but has been supplemented with some fields using SIEVERS WMS.
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- Shipping agents
Table
- Code
- Name
- Package tracking URL
- Tracking company
- Automatic Empties Loading: Specifies whether empties for this shipping agent are registered automatically when an inbound stock post is finished. See Automations for requirements and process details.
- Loading required: If this indicator is not set, the warehouse shipment is posted directly after the creation of an SSCC. The SSCC can be created either during picking or packing.
- Loading Storage Place: Specifies the default loading place for this shipping agent. It is pre-filled in the loading process and does not have to be selected manually.
- Loader: Specifies the default employee responsible for loading shipments for this shipping agent. The employee is pre-filled in the loading process.
- ShipXpert Shipping Carrier: Maps the shipping agent to a ShipXpert shipping carrier and thereby enables label printing through ShipXpert. This setup is only required when using ShipXpert Cloud.
- Priority
- Packaging team: This field is no longer functionally active. Location-dependent assignment of packaging teams is managed via the Assignment Packaging Team by Location & Shipping Agent page, which can be opened via the Number of Packaging Teams field.
- Number of Packaging Teams: Shows the number of location-specific packaging teams assigned to this shipping agent. Click to open the Assignment Packaging Team by Location & Shipping Agent page with the associated entries.
- No shipping orders: Specifies whether shipping orders are generated. Defaults to activated for newly created shipping agents. Shipping orders are intended exclusively for communication with shipping portals; without a corresponding integration this flag should remain set.
- Direct release of shipping order: Specifies that shipping orders are automatically released immediately after the first shipping order line is created. This option is useful if the shipping agent picks up parcels every day and the freight volume does not matter. If the shipping service agent arrives irregularly and the trips have to be planned, this option should not be activated.
- Shipping profile: Specifies the mapping of the shipping profile with the ECOMSUITE label printer extension. The profile specified in the Shipping Agent Services has priority over this shipping profile
Shipping Agent Services
Details for this shipping agent can be specified line by line on this page. For example, a calendar can be set and linked to a transport time and an ECOMSUITE shipping profile.
- Code
- Description
- Shipping time: Specifies the time between the delivery of goods from the warehouse to delivery.
- Base calendar code: Specifies a customizable delivery scheduling calendar that includes the shipping agent's working days and holidays
- Customized calendar: Specifies whether you have set up a customized calendar for the shipping agent. The calendar is used by SIEVERS WMS for shipping date calculations based on working days
- Shipping profile: Specifies the mapping of the shipping profile with the ECOMSUITE label printer extension. This shipping profile takes priority over the profile entered in shipping agent
- ShipXpert Service Code: When using ShipXpert Cloud, determines the shipping product for label printing and the shipment. Every shipping agent service requires a service code for the label to be printed.