Supply Chain › Transportation
Freight Tariffs
A price agreement with a carrier. The rate basis is what lets one engine price parcel, LTL and truckload: three different arithmetics, one lane comparison.
Where to find it
- Module: Supply Chain
- Group: Transportation
- Section: Transportation
- Screen: Freight Tariffs
Address in the console: /scm/freight-tariffs
List · 12 columns · 19 fields on its form · 3 of them required
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tariff | Code | tariff_no |
| Name | Text | name |
| Carrier | Text | carrier_name |
| Service | Text | service_name |
| Lane | Text | lane_name |
| Priced by | Status | rate_basis |
| Discount % | Number | discount_pct |
| Fuel % | Number | fuel_surcharge_pct |
| Bands | Number | break_count |
| Until | Date | valid_to |
| Expired | Yes or no | is_expired |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tariff number | Text | ||
| Name required | Text | ||
| Carrier required | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Service | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Lane | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Contract | Choice | Looked up from existing records | |
| Priced by required | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Currency | Choice | Configuration list | |
| Minimum charge | Number | ||
| Discount off the base tariff % | Number | LTL is quoted as a discount rather than a net rate, so a general rate increase can be applied without rewriting every line. | |
| Fuel surcharge % | Number | ||
| Fuel index source | Text | ||
| Dimensional divisor | Number | 5000 for cm3/kg. Where volume is worth more than weight the carrier charges on volume, and this divisor is the whole rule. | |
| Dimensional units | Text | ||
| In force from | Date | ||
| Until | Date | ||
| Default for this carrier | Yes or no | ||
| Status | Choice | draft, active, expired, superseded, cancelled | |
| Notes | Long text |
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.