Customer ID: The ID of this customer. It is user-assigned, mandatory, and cannot be modified after the customer is created.
Customer Name: User maintainable description or name for the customer. It is mandatory and can be modified in Update mode.
Status: The status for this customer. Possible values are Active, On Hold, and Credit Held.
Address
Address: Addresses for customers are maintained using the Work with Address (Customer/Employee) page, which can be accessed using the view details () icon. Address information for customer on the General tab is always displayed in read-only format. Address is mandatory.
Contact Information
Contact Information: Contact information at the customer level is used when an individual contact for a role is not defined. This information is editable in Update mode. Contact information consists of Primary Phone Number, Secondary Phone Number, Fax Number, Email Address, URL and Language. Only Language is mandatory of all the contact fields.
Units of Measure and Exchange
All fields in this section are mandatory and editable in Update mode. All fields are used as the default for corresponding fields when execution tariffs, shipments, or NOFs are created for the customer. All values for users that belong to user groups and reference this customer are expressed in this unit of measure.
Unit of Measure Type: The unit of measure type for this customer. Possible values are Imperial, Metric.
Distance: Must be Miles if Unit of Measure Type is Imperial and Kilometers if Metric.
Weight:
Can be Pounds or Tons if Unit of Measure Type is Imperial.
Can be Kilograms or Metric Tons if Unit of Measure Type is Metric.
Length:
Can be Inches or Feet if Unit of Measure Type is Imperial.
Must be Meters if Unit of Measure Type is Metric.
The value controls both linear and cubic dimensions. For example, if Length UOM is Feet, Volume UOM is Cubic Feet. Length UOM qualifies all occurrences of Length, Width, Height and Laden Length.
Currency: Can be any currency configured in Transportation Manager. Currencies are maintained in the user-definable currency domain table.
General Attributes
Bill To: The ID of the customer responsible for payment of invoices.
Name: The description of the customer responsible for payment of invoices.
Shipment Version: The default shipment version for this customer.
Shipment Type: The default shipment type for shipments for this customer.
Commodity: The default commodity for this customer when creating shipments, non-operational freight transactions, and rate quotations.
Description: The description of the commodity.
Freight Class: The default freight class for this customer when creating shipments and non-operational freight transactions.
Profit Center: The profit center used when generating G/L transactions based on activity for this customer.
) icon. Address information for customer on the General tab is always displayed in read-only format. Address is mandatory.