Managing Automotive Containers

This topic describes the setup and use of containers for the auto industry.

  1. If you wish to reuse container numbers, select the Reuse Container Numbers check box on the Inventory Parameters form.
  2. Use these forms to review ISO container heights, lengths, and types:
    • ISO Container Heights
    • ISO Container Lengths
    • ISO Container Types
  3. Use the Container Types form to define common characteristics that provide default values for container types. The types you create on that form are used elsewhere in the system for automotive containers.
    1. On the Container Types form, create a new container type and add a description.
    2. Specify the ISO codes for country, length, height, and type.
    3. Select or clear appropriate check boxes for including air surface symbol, overhead electrical warning, and height mark.
    4. Specify weights, heights, widths, lengths, and cubic capacity along with their units of measure.
  4. On the Automotive Containers form, specify effective date, container type, parent container, ISO 6346 marks and codes and values for capacity, dimensions, and units of measure.
    1. Create a new container on the Automotive Containers form and give it a description if you like.
    2. Specify the warehouse, location, and usage reference.
    3. Specify the effective date, container type, and any parent container.
    4. Specify the Owner Code, which is the code for the container's owner as registered with the International Container Bureau. The code is three letters and all uppercase.
    5. Specify the ISO codes and the container serial number.
    6. Select or clear check boxes to determine whether to include air surface symbol, overhead electrical warning, and height mark.
    7. Specify weights, heights, widths, lengths, and cubic capacity along with their units of measure.
    8. The Check Digit field is populated automatically upon save.
    9. The Grouping tab displays the hierarchy where other containers have the current container defined as the parent container. Use the right arrow to remove subordinate containers from the current container. Use the left arrow to assign the current container to the parent container for containers displayed in the Free Containers tree view. The free containers are ones that do not have a parent container assigned.
Related topics
Determining the Value of the Check Digit
About the Automotive Industry Pack