To use the calculated strategic freight for orders using a particular shipping method, you must first enable the ship via for strategic freight and set up how you want the system to calculate the freight; either using a set markup percentage or Freight Cube Modifiers and Freight Cube Factors so the system has all the information it needs to calculate strategic freight for the products on an order.
If you set a markup percentage, the system calculates the standard freight for the product on an order, and multiplies it by the markup percentage to determine the strategic freight.
If a freight markup percentage is not defined for the ship via, the system uses the value of a product and its load factor (weight, size, etc.) to determine the Freight Cube Modifier for a product. The system matches the product value to a minimum and maximum range to and uses the modifier assigned to that range. o determine the Freight Cube Factor, the system searches for a product's core status (based on your service tier level), and maps that to the visibility of the vendor (how visible a vendor's pricing is to distributors) assigned to the sell group.
For more information about how Eclipse calculates strategic freight using the modifiers and factors, see Strategic Freight Calculations - All Data Service Tiers and Strategic Freight Calculations - Platinum Pricing Service Tier.
If a freight markup percentage is not defined, and the Freight Cube Modifiers and Freight Cube Factors are not defined, and the ship via is flagged to use strategic freight, the system uses the standard freight for the product on the order.
To set a ship via to use strategic freight:
From the Files > Price Maintenance > Strategic Pricing > Strategic Pricing Maintenance menu, select Freight Maintenance to display the Strategic Pricing Freight Maintenance screen.
In the Ship Via field, select the shipping method, such as Our Truck or UPS, to display the Freight Cube Modifiers and Freight Cube Factors for that ship via.
To indicate that you want to use the calculated strategic freight for orders using this shipping method, enter Y in the Use Strategic Freight field.
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use a set markup percentage when calculating the strategic freight for the ship via |
In the Freight Markup % field, enter the percentage, such as .25 for a quarter of 1 percent. The system |
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use modifiers and factors when calculating the strategic freight for the ship via |
In the Freight Cube Modifiers table, enter the minimum and maximum modifier values to establish a range from the top of the table to the bottom. In the Freight Cube Factors table, enter the factors that Strategic Pricing Associates provides for each core status and visibility combination. |
Press Esc to save your changes and exit the screen.
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