A
ABC
See Activity Based Costing (ABC).
ABPP
See Agile Business Processing Platform (ABPP).
Accessorial Charge
See Option.
Accounting Period
A financial reporting period, normally one month long. It often directly corresponds to one or more calendar months.
Accounts Payable (A/P)
An accounting term referring to amounts owed by a shipper or third party logistics provider to carriers for freight services rendered. Accounts payable forms part of the liability side of the balance sheet.
Accounts Receivable (A/R)
An accounting term referring to amounts owed to a shipper or third party logistics provider by customers for freight services provided. Accounts Receivable forms part of the asset side of the balance sheet.
Accrual
The process of recognizing a current expense before a freight bill is received, or of recognizing current revenue before an invoice is issued. In Transportation Manager, an accrual for A/P acknowledges a transportation expense before actually receiving and accepting a freight bill from a carrier for freight services provided.
Accrual Run
The batch process used to process A/P or A/R accruals.
Activity Based Costing (ABC)
An accounting methodology where a cost is associated with each possible type of activity. The costs that form the expense portion of the income statement are derived from a log of each action as it was recorded. Activity Based Costing is more likely to be found in a warehousing environment rather than in a pure shipping environment.
Adjustment
For accounts payable, any change made to the anticipated cost for freight services as recorded on a freight voucher before the voucher is matched to a freight bill received from a carrier.
For accounts receivable, adjustments include any modification to the system calculated amount. These modifications are recorded on a voucher made after the voucher was created but before it is assigned to an invoice for a customer.
See Post Charge.
Agile Business Processing Platform (ABPP)
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Airbill
Anticipated Cost
The cost the shipper or third party logistics provider expects to pay the carrier or charge a customer for freight services rendered.
A/P
API (Application Program Interface)
A method in which two different applications exchange data. In Transportation Manager, for example, an API allows you to transfer shipments from an ERP system into Transportation Manager. The API takes data from the external source, manipulates it if necessary, and updates the Transportation Manager shipment tables.
Appointment
A range of dates and times that define a window of time when a pickup or delivery can be made. The appointment defines an interval when staff and equipment are available at the shipping location to facilitate loading or unloading.
A/P Transaction Generation
The process of creating entries in the A/P transaction table. Approved freight bills that meet filtering criteria are selected for processing.
A/P Transaction Table
The mechanism used to move approved freight bills from the Transportation Manager Accounts Payable module to the accounts payable module in the resident financial system of the shipper or third party logistics provider.
A/P Vendor Number
The account number that represents the carrier in the resident financial system of the shipper or third party logistics provider. It is included in the A/P transaction table when entries are generated.
A/R
See Accounts Receivable (A/R).
A/R Account Number
The account number that represents the customer in the resident financial system of the shipper or third party logistics provider.
A/R Transaction Generation
The process of creating entries in the A/R transaction table. Approved invoices for customers meeting filtering criteria are selected for processing.
A/R Transaction Table
The mechanism used to move invoices created by the Transportation Manager accounts receivable module to the accounts receivable module in the resident financial system of the shipper or third party logistics provider.
Asset
An accounting term representing a classification of a G/L account. Asset accounts and liability accounts are combined in the general ledger financial reporting module to produce the balance sheet.
Assigned Shipment Legs
Shipment legs that have either been attached to a load or placed on a manifest.
Audit
A type of freight bill or invoice payment mode in which the shipper or third party logistics provider pays a carrier, or invoices a customer, only after matching the freight bill amount or customer payments to the corresponding voucher charges. The freight bill/invoice payment mode is defined for each tariff. Compare with Auto-Payment (Auto-Pay).
Audit Match
A type of freight bill detail mode used when you are employing the freight bill audit feature of Transportation Manager. In this mode, the freight bill reflects freight transactions that were not tracked operationally by Transportation Manager. Details of a freight movement are received from the customer and captured in a non-operational freight (NOF) entity. When the NOF is created, it is automatically A/P rated, and an A/P voucher is generated. When details of the carrier charges for this freight movement are later received from the carrier, freight bill details are created. These freight bill details are then matched to and checked against the A/P voucher of the NOF entity.
Audit No-Match
A type of freight bill detail mode used when you are employing the freight bill audit feature of Transportation Manager. In this mode, the freight bill reflects freight transactions that were not tracked operationally by Transportation Manager, but all details of the freight movement are received from one party, the carrier. The carrier provides details of the freight movement and the carrier charges, and these are used to create an NOF entity at the same time as the freight bill details. Just as for Audit Match mode, the NOF entity is automatically A/P rated and has an A/P voucher generated. The voucher and freight bill details are created simultaneously and immediately matched. This No-Match process ensures that the rates are correct for the freight bill details, but because it does not match to separately generated vouchers, this process only checks that the transactions are not duplicates.
Audit Trails
Transportation Manager maintains an audit trail that records status changes and related activities for key system entities. Events trigger the generation of an audit trail.
Transportation Manager can also capture full images of data in selected tables at the time events occur.
Auto-Applied Option
An option that the system automatically selects for shipments for a particular entity. Auto-applied options can be defined for shipping locations.
Auto-Payment (Auto-Pay)
A type of freight bill or invoice payment mode in which the shipper or third party logistics provider pays a carrier, or invoices a customer, based on system calculated amounts, without comparison with the corresponding voucher charges. The freight bill/invoice payment mode is defined for each tariff. Compare with Audit.
Auto-Tender
A Transportation Manager process that will automatically issue a tender to the default carrier when the load is set to planned. If load is on a trip, tender will be issued once all loads have been set to planned status. Auto-tender is related to the Carrier Sequential Tendering process but it can also be initiated for loads that are not eligible for CST (that is, loads attached to trips, loads where scheduling has been disabled).