Areas and Postcodes

Transport Areas

It’s necessary to setup Area Codes to define departure and arrival areas in which Transport Plan and Tariff will be based on.

Customers, Vendors and Locations (warehouses) will have assigned an area code.

It’s possible to acess to Transport Areas through Transport Management Setup or by searching the page on search bar.

In this page, create a Code and a Description for the area:

These Areas can be renamed - when renamed, all the related records are updated:

Area codes can also be deleted, even if they’re used in some document - this won’t affect the existing documents. When deleting the Area code, an informative message appears:

Post Codes

“Transport Area Code” is a field added to the Standard Table of Post Codes.

This field will be filled with the Area Code associated to the Post-Code:

This default Area Code will be duplicated on Customer, Ship-To Address, Vendor, Location or Order Address, when selecting the City/Post Code for the address. However, it’s possible for the user to manually adjust area code on the address.

For example, on Post Code, a Transport Area is set:

When inserting Post Code on Customer, the Transport Area Code is automatically updated:

However, this Transport Area Code can be manually changed:

Transport Plans

Transport Plans defines all the routes that can be delivered by the contracted Shipping Agent.

See information with more detail on Transport Plans.