Create a Freight Load Out

The Freight Load Out process allows you to combine and schedule orders for delivery and allocate shipment/carrier costs to the orders.

Pre-Requisites

1. Customer Orders

Step-by-step guide

1. Access the Logistics module.
   
   
2. Click Logistics.
   
   
3. Select Freight Load Out Entry.
   
   
4. Specify a Carrier.
   
   
5. Specify a Schedule Date and Scheduled Time value.
   
   
6. Optional: Select a Route option.
   
   
7. Specify a Ship Date.
   This will limit the Customer Order Search screen used below to only return orders with this specified Ship Date.
   
   
8. Within the grid view, click the + icon to add Orders to the Freight Load Out.
   This will open up the Customer Order Search screen. Use the options to find any Orders you would like to add to the Freight Load Out.
   
   
9.  Once your order(s) have been found, highlight and select them.
   Multiple Orders can be selected by holding down the Shift or Ctrl keys.
   
   
10. Click OK on the Customer Order Search screen.
    The selected Orders will be pulled into the Freight Load Out screen.
    
    
11.  Optional: For each Order, specify a Stop, Miles, and/or Freightvalue.
    
    
12. Optional: In the header of the Freight Load Out, ensure that the Freight value specified is the sum of the Orders' Freight total.
    This is a balance check to ensure that the Freight charge from the Carrier is correctly allocated across all Orders.
    
    
13. Click Save.