Transport and Deliveries - Transport Orders

The Transport Orders combine one or more containers. The transport orders can be inbound or outbound orders. You can use specific rules and allot permissions to create transport orders per location. The ability to create rules and permissions provides great flexibility to organizations having different shipping rules for different locations.
Typically, a transport order has the following sections:

  • Transport Order Header: This section contains all generic information to be used for the transport order.

  • Transport Order Line: This section contains the order information per package type.

  • For Inbound:

    • Inventory Put-away
    • Warehouse Put-away

  • For Outbound:

    • Inventory Pick
    • Warehouse Pick

The following additional features are also available in the Transport Order Management:

  • Transport Cost: Use this feature to transfer the costs added to the transport order, to the standard Microsoft Dynamics NAV Purchase Invoice.
  • Online Map: Displays the Transport Order addresses in an on-line map. When clicking this action you can choose to show:
    • Pick-up Address
    • Delivery Address
    • Route from pick-up address to delivery address The following table contains links and descriptions to topics used for this feature.
To See
Learn how to use shipping agent service codes in transport orders Setting up Shipping Agent Service Codes
Define Pick-up/Delivery Instructions for the transport orders Setting up Pick-up/Delivery Instructions
Understand the ways in which a transport order can be created Creating Transport Orders
Learn about various sections of a transport order Processing Transport Orders
Create cost components to be used in the transport orders Setting up Transport Order Cost Components
Understand how the cost components templates are created Setting up Transport Order Cost Components Templates
Understand how you can add cost components to a transport order Adding Transport Order Cost Lines
View the posted transport order cost lines Viewing Posted Transport Order Costs

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