Destination Information Card Workspace

Use this workspace to maintain information about the destinations to which your company ships consignments, for example, an airport or a city.

In the Destination Information Card tab you enter information about the name and address of the destination. In the Consignment Modes sub-tab you create a number of consignment modes, each of which represents a means of shipping goods to the current destination.

Each consignment mode is a combination of a delivery mode, a consignment type, a carrier, and delivery terms. In this way, a consignment mode can be a shipment of furniture by truck from Freight & Sons, CPT. You can only create consignments to a given destination with the consignment modes specified in this workspace for the destination in question. Consequently you must create a line for every combination of delivery mode, carrier, delivery terms, and consignment type that can occur for shipments to the destination in question.

For each consignment mode, you can enter a number of charges and maximum volume and weight capacities. You can also specify how long it usually takes to pack items for the current consignment mode, and how long the items will be in transit. Maconomy suggests this information in the Consignments workspace when you create consignments based on the consignment mode in question.

For each consignment mode, you can indicate that Maconomy should automatically create consignments on the dates when they are needed. In this way, you can, for example, specify that a given consignment mode can be used once a month, but you only want consignments for that consignment mode to be created if it results in a consignment with an earlier packing date than the ones on the existing consignments. The automatic creation of consignments then occurs when Maconomy is to assign a quote or an order to a consignment automatically, and Maconomy cannot find an existing consignment that matches the quote's or sales order's requirements for consignment mode, delivery date, weight, and volume.