Processing - Case Details
 
Unless a detailed packing list is required, and your system holds the weights against the invoice line items, then entries on this screen are not required. However if there are no weights against products and a detailed packing list is NOT required, then merely add one package with the total gross and net weight and cube. You will then be able to use the Case Spreader icon to apportion the total weights and cube over the tariff records which is sufficient for HMRC purposes.
The "Case Details" Tab of the Consignment Maintenance area of the system works in much the same way as the other multiple item databases in that you can type in a record which will store the case number as well as the gross and net weights and the dimensions (in cms) in order that the system can calculate the cube of the pack and ultimately totals for the consignment.
 
First you need to decide which document to use, either a Packing List (pack sizes and product items and where they are packed) or Case Contents Lists (pack sizes and details of contents), so in both circumstances you should probably enter the pack sizes etc via this screen, but if you wish to report on the usage of the various elements of packing, then  you should merge a “case” record from those stored in the Cases static file and add the weights and, if necessary, dimensions (in cms).
 
Case Contents: In addition, if you wish to produce a Case Contents list you should enter details of the contents, whilst creating the package records.

NB      You may wish to allocate items to a pack by means of the case allocation routines which are described on another page of this Tutorial.

 
Packing List: In addition to entering the pack sizes and weights, you should enter against the products on the invoice, where the items are packed

NB      You may wish to allocate items to a pack by means of the case allocation routines which are described on another page of this Tutorial.

 

Shortly we will go through the printing of a Packing List and Continuation from the commercial tab of the Standard Print routines. You will see that the the front page will always show details of the packages, and if all items fit then the product and typed details of where they are packed will appear on the front sheet, but if they do not all fit they will be on the continuation. If you select both forms to print, the system will produce the correct document(s).

 

Both the above options involve a degree of typing and we have therefore developed a process of allocating products to packages.

 

If your system does have weights against the products within a consignment, then go to Case Allocation, but if not check the details against Spread Cases

 

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