Create Freight Map and Enter Zone Definitions

Explanation

This activity is used to create the freight map header and enter the zones. A set of zones is called a freight map.There will be different maps for different ship-via methods, i.e. the distance will have to be handled differently in air transport and road transport.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

Note: However in order to define states, counties or cities for a country, that country should have been defined in the Address Setup per Country window.

System Effects

Window

Freight Map

Related Window Descriptions

Freight Map
Freight Map/General

Procedure

  1. Open the Freight Map window and click New.
  2. Enter appropriate values for freight map ID and freight map description.
  3. Enter manually or select from the List of Values the required ship-via code.
  4. Enter the supplier's site as the Owning Site.

To enter zone definitions:

  1. Click the General tab and then click on the top table.
  2. Click New to create a new zone definition.
  3. Enter an appropriate zone ID and a description.
  4. Select a base country for the zone from the List of Values.
  5. Select a value for the Zone Defined By field from the given options. However if Country is the zone-defined-by value, the base country should have a null value.
  6. Repeat step 2-5 until all zone definitions have been entered and save when completed.

To enter zone definition details:

  1. Select the appropriate zone definitions from the top table.
  2. Click the bottom table and click New to create a new zone definition detail.    
  3. For zone definitions having zone-defined-by value as Country, State, County or City, select an appropriate discrete value from the List of Values.
    Note: The values in the List of Values depend on the value selected as the zone-defined-by field in the top table.
  4. For zone definitions having zone-defined-by value as Zip Code, then specify appropriate zip code range by entering values in the From and To fields.
    Note: Only numerical values are allowed in the From and To fields.
  5. Repeat step 1-4 until all zone definition details have been entered and save when completed.