Use this form to set up account information for the shipping
carriers that you use in your business. You can set up multiple
account codes for each shipping carrier to represent the different
accounts that are used for your shipping locations. You can assign
an account code to each of the modes of delivery that your company
uses.
Assume that you have a warehouse in Canada and another in the
United States, and you use UPS as your shipping carrier for both
locations. You can set up the following carrier company name.
Carrier company name
Vendor
Account code
Carrier account number
Currency
UPS
3050
UPS-Canada
9999150
CAD
UPS-US
9999250
USD
Navigating
the form
The following tables provide descriptions for the controls in
this form.
View and change information about the selected carrier,
including the miscellaneous charges to transfer to Microsoft
Dynamics AX from the shipping carrier software.
Enter information about each account that you have with the
carrier. For example, for FedEx, you might have a different account
number for each warehouse location that you ship from.
Fields
Field
Description
Enter a value that represents the company name of the carrier,
for example
UPSor
DHL.
Enter the URL of the carrier's tracking Web site. Enter
%1to represent the position of the tracking number in the
URL. The tracking number will be substituted for the 1% value in
the
form.
Enter the vendor account number that your organization uses for
the carrier.
Select a miscellaneous charge code to use when core freight
charges are transferred from the shipping carrier software to
invoices.
Select a miscellaneous charge code to use when ancillary
charges, such as insurance, are transferred from the shipping
carrier software to invoices.
Select a miscellaneous charge code to use when handling charges,
such as C.O.D. fees, are transferred from the shipping carrier
software to invoices.
Select a miscellaneous charge code to use when fuel surcharges
are transferred from the shipping carrier software to invoices.
This field works in conjunction with the
check box in the
form. If the check box is selected, fuel surcharges can be
transferred to invoices for the customer.
Enter an identifier to represent an account that your company
has with the selected shipping carrier company. Typically, you will
set up an account code for each warehouse or shipping location.
Select a carrier company name.
Enter the number that is used by the carrier to bill your
organization.
Enter the company currency code that represents the currency
that is used by the carrier software. This currency is assigned to
all charges that are received from the carrier software for this
account when the packing slip is posted.
Enter the index number that corresponds to the shipping company
in your shipping carrier software.
Note
The value in this field is used only by the Kewill ClipperShip
shipping carrier software.