Shipping Control F/M (SOF960)

The Shipping Control F/M program allows you to create and maintain the Shipping Control Record, which consists of UPS rates and weight limits. If your system is integrated with Clippership, you will not need to edit this program.

The Shipping Control Record stores the defaults used in Freight Entry, the flags for the C.O.D. label printing and the UPS Weight F/M.

As UPS changes its rates and weight limits, use this enter the new amounts in this program.

If you have a package configuration (weight and value) that is used often, its information can be set up in this program as the defaults for weight and declared value in the Freight Entry.

NOTE: The Freight Subsystem has been approved by UPS as a host computerized manifest system. However, each user will have to contact the appropriate UPS representatives and get their approval as well. Also, FACTS can use other carriers/freight companies; just enter their information instead of the information from UPS.

Input Descriptions

Use the following inputs to create the Shipping Control record:

1. UPS C.O.D. Charge

Enter the amount UPS charges for collecting cash on delivery (0-99.99). Press Enter (CR) to initially default to $4.00.

2. UPS Call Tag Charge

Enter the amount UPS charges for a call tag shipment (0-99.99). (Call tags are shipments that UPS picks up at an address and delivers back to the user.) Press Enter (CR) to initially default to $1.60.

3. Insurance Per $100

Enter the amount UPS charges for insurance. This amount should be entered per one hundred dollars worth of insurance after the first $100. (At the time of printing, the first $100 was no charge, but each $100 thereafter was $.35). Press Enter (CR) to initially default to $.35.

4. Use UPS Alt Ctl #

Indicate whether to use the invoice number (or sales order number) as the alternate control number on UPS C.O.D. labels, or to use the control number (preprinted on the UPS label) as itself. Press Enter (CR) to default to unselected.

5. UPS Price Breaks

This field can only be set to N.

6. Default Declared Value

Enter the default declared value for the line items in the Freight Entry Program. At the time of printing, UPS provided $100 worth of insurance at no charge. Press Enter (CR) to default to $100.

7. Default Weight

Enter the default weight for the line items in the Freight Entry Program. Press Enter (CR) to initially default to 10.

8. Company on C.O.D. Label

Indicate whether your company name is to be printed on the UPS C.O.D. labels. If you enter Y, the company name along with the ship-to address will be printed as the return address. Enter N if you are using labels preprinted with your company name. Press Enter (CR) to default to Y.

9. Label At Each Line Item

Enter Y, N, or M (maybe) to indicate whether to print labels at the end of each line-item in the Freight Entry Program. If you enter M, the user is prompted at the end of each line-item. Depending on the ship via, the Freight Entry Program uses the Shipping Label Print Program (SOP410), UPS Shipping Label Print Program (SOP450), or UPS C.O.D. Label Print Program (SOP420). The printer used is defined in the SM Program F/M for these programs. Press Enter (CR) to default to N.

10. Address On UPS Label

Indicate whether to print company name and address on the UPS shipping label. Press Enter (CR) to initially default to Y.

11. Addl Handling Chrg

Enter the amount UPS charges for additional handling. A charge will apply to all domestic UPS packages that contain articles, cans or pails that are either not fully encased in an outside shipping container or are not in an appropriate shipping container; any packages that exceed 60 inches in length. Press Enter (CR) to initially default to $1.00.

12. Max Liability Per Pkg

Enter the amount of the maximum liability per package. A maximum liability amount applies to any package shipping through UPS Next Day Air, UPS 2nd Day Air, UPS 3 Day Select, UPS Ground and UPS GroundTrac services. Press Enter (CR) to initially default to $50,000.

13. Dim Wt Conv Factor

Enter the dimensional weight conversion factor. This factor is used to calculate dimensional weight when you are shipping a package through UPS Next Day Air or UPS 2 Day Air and the package measures over one cubic foot. Charges for packages measuring over one cubic foot are based on dimensional weight, when the dimensional weight exceeds the actual weight. Dimensional weight is calculated by multiplying a package’s length, height and width, in inches, and dividing the total by this conversion factor. This calculation replaces the oversize charge for Next Day and 2nd Day Air packages. Press Enter (CR) to initially default to 194.

See Also

For more detailed information on file maintenance programs, consult the following topics.

How to use File Maintenance programs