Apply a charge code to record fees paid by your firm to a carrier and assign costs to a customer. These fees and costs generally include additional labor (e.g. night work or extended driver wait times at a terminal) or professional services. Charge codes should not be used to represent fees or costs for standard yard, warehouse, or transport services.
The Charge Codes page on a shipment/load or pending quote has two sections.
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Account Charges shows the fees you charge a customer.
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Carrier Charges shows the fees a broker pays to a carrier.
Example A carrier bills your company $200 for a lift gate. Your company marks up the charge and bills the customer $250 with a separate charge code.
Before you start
To add Account and Carrier charge codes to a shipment (pickup, delivery, move, or return) or pending quote, create the transportation charge codes in the WMS environment. Inside the TMS environment, DVU users can enter charge code quantities but cannot create new charge codes.
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Click here to learn how to create an Account charge code.
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Click here to learn how to create a Carrier charge code.
Note In the WMS environment, DVU users can assign charge codes to Shipping, Receiving, and Work Order activities which are not part of the TMS environment. To assign a TMS charge code, DVU users must select the Transportation activity.
Enabling charge codes
When configured properly, DVU automatically displays the codes on the Charge Codes page of a shipment/load or pending quote with a default zero quantity. When preparing a shipment/load or quote, the DVU user adds a value to each relevant field.
To enter a value:
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Open a shipment or pending quote.
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Click Charge Codes on the side menu.
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Locate the Apply / Qty field for each charge code.
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Enter a number.
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Click Save.
When the DVU user adds quantities to the Charge Codes page of an active job, DVU adds these charges to the invoice.
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