Forwarding Shipments
A house bill under a master bill. A forwarder makes its money on the spread between what it buys at and what it sells at, so buy and sell are two columns rather than one.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Freight Forwarding
- Screen: Forwarding Shipments
Address in the console: /scm/forwarding-shipments
List · 17 columns · 43 fields on its form · 3 of them required · 1 action
What the list shows
These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.
| Column | Kind | Field name |
|---|---|---|
| Shipment | Code | shipment_no |
| Job | Status | job_type |
| Mode | Status | mode |
| Service | Status | service_type |
| House bill | Code | house_bill_no |
| Shipper | Text | shipper |
| Consignee | Text | consignee |
| From port | Text | port_of_loading |
| To port | Text | port_of_discharge |
| ETA | Date | eta |
| Boxes | Number | containers |
| Sell | Amount | total_sell |
| Margin | Amount | margin |
| Margin % | Number | margin_pct |
| Customs | Status | customs_status |
| Overdue | Yes or no | is_overdue |
| Status | Status | status |
The form
What is asked for when a record is created here. Required fields are marked; a choice drawn from a configuration list is one an administrator can extend without a release.
| Field | Type | Choices | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job type required | Choice | export, import, cross_trade, domestic, transit | |
| Mode required | Choice | ocean, air, road, rail, multimodal, courier | |
| Service required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Shipper (customer) | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Shipper (supplier) | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Shipper name | Text | Where the shipper is the other side rather than one of ours. | |
| Consignee (customer) | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Consignee name | Text | ||
| Notify party | Text | ||
| Carrier | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Vessel | Text | ||
| Voyage | Text | ||
| Flight | Text | ||
| House bill number | Text | ||
| Master bill number | Text | ||
| Booking number | Text | ||
| Consolidated under | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Origin | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Port of loading | Text | ||
| Port of discharge | Text | ||
| Place of receipt | Text | ||
| Place of delivery | Text | ||
| Destination | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Estimated departure | Date | ||
| Actual departure | Date | ||
| Estimated arrival | Date | ||
| Actual arrival | Date | ||
| Cargo ready | Date | ||
| Cutoff | Date and time | ||
| Free days | Number | ||
| Incoterm | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Currency | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Goods | Long text | ||
| Marks and numbers | Long text | ||
| Gross weight (kg) | Number | ||
| Chargeable weight (kg) | Number | ||
| Volume (m3) | Number | ||
| Packages | Number | ||
| Declared value | Number | ||
| Insured value | Number | ||
| Dangerous goods | Yes or no | ||
| Operator | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Notes | Long text |
What you can do here
Profitability
Buy against sell, charge by charge, and the lines quietly losing money
The rules that apply here
Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:
- Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
- What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
- Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.
- Creating a record — required fields, where choices come from, and how the number is allocated.
- Importing a spreadsheet — this screen accepts one, and it runs through the same rules as typing.