Ship-To F/M (ARF920) field descriptions

Use the following fields to create ship-to records.

After you save the ship-to record, click CC Tokens for ship-tos that use credit card tokens to access the CenPOS Token Management (SME958) screen.

Addressing tab

1. Customer Number

Enter the customer number for whom the ship-to number is to correspond.  

2. Ship-To Number

Specify the ship-to number (up to 5 characters).   The ship-to numbers are alphanumeric and user-definable. You can duplicate ship-to numbers as long as the duplicate numbers are assigned to different customers. For example: C100 can have ship-to numbers 1 and 2. C200 can also have ship-to numbers 1 and 2. Ship-to numbers don’t have to be numbers. For example, you can create ship-to numbers such as ATL for a customer’s Atlanta SAV for its Savannah location.

3. Name

Specify the ship-to customer name (up to 30 characters). Press Enter to default to the customer’s name from the customer file.

4. Country

Specify the customer's country.

5. Address

Specify the ship-to customer address.

6. City

Enter the city.

7. State

Specify the state name using the 2-character designation provided by the post office.

8. Zip Code

Specify the zip code.

9. Final Address Line

Specify the final address line for the customer’s address. Press Reset to default to city, state and zip entered in from the previous fields. The final address line can be used for international addresses and will be used for all printouts, instead of city, state and zip.

10. Contact #1

Specify the name of the person you work with at this ship-to address (up to 25 characters).

11. Phone #1

Specify the phone number including area code, dashes and extension, if needed (up to 17 characters).

12. Email

Specify the email address for the person entered as contact #1 above.

13. Contact #2

Specify the name of another person you work with at this ship-to address (up to 25 characters).

14. Phone #2

Specify the second phone number of the customer if needed (up to 17 characters).

15. Email

Specify the email address for the person entered as contact #2 above.

Additional info tab

16. Slsp/Terr (Salesperson/Territory)

Specify the salesperson/territory (up to 3 characters). The entry must be a valid salesperson/territory. Press Enter to default to the salesperson/territory assigned to the customer in the customer file. This code will be the default salesperson in the sales order entry programs and the AR Invoice Entry program when this ship-to is used.  

17. Tax Code

Specify the tax code that applies to this customer (up to 8 characters). The entry must be a valid tax code. Press Enter to default to the tax code assigned to the customer in the customer file. This code will be the default in the order entry programs and AR Invoice Entry program when this ship-to is used.

18. Tax rate

Specify whether the tax rate is High, Low, or eXempt status. Press Enter to default to the rate assigned to the customer in the customer file.

19. Ship via

Specify a code to indicate which shipping method to use with the default customer (up to 15 characters). This code will be the default ship via in the sales order entry programs and AR Invoice Entry program when this ship-to is used. Ship Via codes are setup and maintained in the Ship Via F/M located in the Sales Orders File Maintenance menu. Press F2 to search Ship Via codes for all warehouses.

20. Zone

Specify the UPS ship-to zone. The prompt shows the zone as calculated from the zip code entered in field #8 and the zone assigned to the customer in the AR Customer F/M program. Press Enter to default to the calculated zone, or if there is not one, the entry from the Customer F/M program.

21. Commercial/Resident

Specify whether a delivery to this customer is a Commercial or Residential UPS ground delivery. UPS charges different amounts for residential and commercial deliveries. Press Enter to default to commercial.

22. Route

If routing is used (check the Route flag in the SO Static Control F/M),specify the customer’s ship-to route number (up to 3 characters). Press Enter to default to the route assigned to the customer in the customer file.  

23. Site Charge

If your system uses the Service & Repair module, use this field to establish the flat fee you want to charge this customer whenever a service technician visits the customer’s site.

If you don’t use Service & Repair, this field is inactive.

24. Label Code

Specify the label code to be sent to Radio Beacon in the "PH" record during the pick ticket print program for EWMS processing.

25. Ship Complete

Specify the default ship complete status, or press F4-Backup to return to the preceding field. This field initially defaults from the customer record.

Note: The Ship Complete field is a warehouse- and line-level designation. Refer to the Ship Complete Feature Overview topic for details.

You can select from the following options:

N Allow Partial--Indicates you want to allow the shipped quantity to be less than the ordered quantity for Ship-to locations for this customer.

Y Ship Complete--Indicates you want to require that all lines must ship complete for the specified ship-to location for this customer.

B Balance Complete—Indicates you want to allow all lines to can ship partial in the first shipment for this customer. Once the ship-to location is processed through the DSR, the line is changed to ship complete.

26. Order Priority

Specify the default order priority, or press F4-Backup to return to the preceding field. This field initially defaults from the customer record. You can select from the following options:

N Normal—Indicates that orders for this customer have no special priority.

R Rush—Indicates that you want to advise the warehouse, via the pick ticket, that this customers orders are rush orders.

H Service Hold—Indicates that you want orders for this customer not to be shipped due to a non-credit-related reason.

27. eStorefront Whse

Set the eCommerce Storefront warehouse for any ship-to location that will be placing orders on eCommerce Storefront.  Failure to do this will cause the ship-to number not to be accepted on the web.

User-Defined tab

Many users have a few pieces of information about customers, vendors, and items that are unique to their business that they would like to enter into FACTS for reference purposes. The User-Defined screen displays user-defined fields in the major file maintenances and makes them available in FACTS Inquiry programs for information only. There are 5 user-defined fields available to any user that has access to Ship-To F/M.

You will be able to configure these fields within the following constraints:
If you have
administrator privileges for User-defined Fields setting on the Security tab of User Code F/M (SMF410): Each field can be designated by a type--text, numeric, validated list, and date, as well as a label that can be edited in the F/M to create custom labels for each field. This allows you to have a meaningful label other than "User Defined 1" and so on.

To configure user-defined fields:

  1. After you select the administrator privileges for User-defined Fields setting on the Security tab of User Code F/M (SMF410).above, exit FACTS and log back in to allow this change to take effect.
  2. Access the desired file maintenance program: Item F/M (ICF910), Vendor F/M (APF910), Ship-To F/M (ARF920), or Customer F/M (ARF910).
  3. Access the User-Defined screen of the selected file maintenance.
  4. Click Configure to display the User-Defined Field Characteristics Entry (SMC996) program, where you can enter up to five user-defined fields and the characteristics associated with the field.