Enter Handling Unit Accessories

Explanation

This activity is used to create and maintain handling unit accessories. This task is to be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent person.

You must enter the weight and volume of the handling unit accessories. Handling unit accessories are available when you define the freight information for sales parts and also when you manually build handling unit structures on shipment. Handling unit accessories are material that is added to the handling unit structures. Examples of handling unit accessories could be pallet collars, lids and different type of packing material. When a particular handling unit accessory is added to a handling unit structure, the weight of the handling unit accessory is included in the calculation of the total weight of the handling unit.

A handling unit accessory can be set as having additive volume, meaning that the volume of the accessory will be added to the total volume of the handling unit. It will also mean that the volume for the handling unit is fixed to that total volume. A typical example of this would be having a pallet and then adding one or several collars to that pallet as accessories (additive volume set). The total volume for that handling unit including accessories and any parts attached, will then be the pallet volume plus the accessory volume, as it is seen as a fixed box. If the accessory does not have additive volume, it will not be included in the volume calculations for the handling unit. A typical example of the latter would be an insulation material used as an accessory. Using our example, the volume of the parts or any child handling units would be added to the total volume of the pallet (that have additive volume).

Prerequisites

This activity has no prerequisites.

System Effects

• A handling unit accessory is defined, including the weight and volume.
• The defined handling unit accessory can be used in the customer order shipment process when creating handling unit structures in a shipment.
• The defined weight of the handling unit accessory is included in the calculation of the total weight of the shipment.

Window

Handling Unit Accessories

Related Window Descriptions

Handling Unit Accessories

Procedure

1. Open the Handling Unit Accessories window and create a new record.
2. In the Handling Unit Accessory ID field, enter an ID, using no more than 25 alphanumeric characters.
3. Enter a description of the handling unit accessory.
4. Enter the weight of the handling unit accessory and select an appropriate UoM for weight from the List of Values.
5. Enter a volume and select an appropriate UoM for volume from the List of Values.
6. Save the changes.