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Vendor

A supplier of merchandise or services. To many business enterprises, carriers are a subset of all vendors.

Versions

Transportation Manager supports versions for many of the entities used in the system. Versions function like templates, and can automate the creation and processing of business entities.

For example: If you know that the rates for a particular tariff will change in three months’ time, you can set the expiry date of the original tariff for a date three months in the future, and create a tariff version with the new rates and an effective date three months in the future.

Volume

Volume may be used in the context of a single container or as the sum when referring to the volume of a shipment or load. By default, volume is computed as length x width x height but this value can be overridden for irregularly shaped components. Also called cube.

Voucher

See Freight Voucher.

Voucher Run

The batch process used to created vouchers.