User Profile fields - Details tab

Settings and Defaults

Shipment Version: Mandatory. The default Shipment Version for this user. This will be used as a default when this user creates a customer. The shipment version for the customer will be the default when creating a shipment for the customer.
Country: The home country for the user. It is mandatory. It will be used as a default on various pages where country is required.
Commodity: Mandatory. The default Commodity for this user. This will be used as a default when this user creates a customer. The commodity for the customer will be the default when creating a shipment for the customer. Each shipment refers to exactly one commodity. Tariff lanes can optionally be commodity specific. Configuration options can be used to prevent a commodity from being combined with another commodity or from being loaded onto certain types of equipment.
Description: The commodity description. This field will always be read-only.
Freight Class: Mandatory. The default Freight Class for this user. The default freight class for the user will be used when creating customers. The default freight class for customer will be used when creating shipments.
Customer Service Representative: If this user is a customer service representative (CSR), the CSR field will be populated. Event Notification messages can be directed to the CSR can be directed to the CSR associated with a shipment.
Maximum Voucher/Charge Approval Amount: The maximum total amount for which an authorized user can create a miscellaneous or post-charge voucher without it being held by the system; a user cannot release system held vouchers if the voucher total is more than the maximum amount. The maximum amount is expressed in the user's default currency.

Note: When a new user is created, this field defaults to the value defined at the user group level. No currency conversion occurs.

Time Zone Offset: The amount of time that should be subtracted from or added to the base time zone value for a certain date/time fields. Setting this value allows you to display a few date/time fields (such as, Start Date/Time – User) in Transportation Smartbench in the user’s time zone.
Notes:
- Only a few supported date/time fields that are suffixed with the word “User” will be able to display the converted value
- When set to zero, no conversion is applied on the supported date/time fields

Consolidation / Sequencing

Shipment Consolidation Class: This is assigned as a default value when creating a shipment if a default is not defined for the applicable shipment version. Shipment consolidation class can be used to restrict shipments from being consolidated onto the same load, trip, or booking.
Load Group: This is assigned as a default value when creating a shipment if a default is not defined for the applicable shipment version. Load Group can be used to restrict shipments from being consolidated onto the same load.

Units of Measure and Exchange.

Unit of Measure Type: Mandatory. Possible values are: Metric, Imperial. Values for other Unit or Measure fields will be refreshed if this value is modified.
Distance: Mandatory. Must be "Miles" if Unit of Measure Type is "Imperial" and "Kilometers" if "Metric". All distance values presented to this user will be presented to this user in this Unit of Measure.
Weight: Mandatory. Can be "Pounds" or "Tons" if Unit of Measure Type is "Imperial". Can be "Kilograms" or "Metric Tons" if Unit of Measure Type is "Metric". With the exception of property pages where weight can be maintained, all weights will be presented to this user in this Unit of Measure.
Length: Mandatory. Can be "Inches" or "Feet" if Unit of Measure Type is "Imperial". Must be "Meters" if "Metric". Value controls both linear and cubic dimensions. For example: If Length UOM is "Feet", Volume UOM will be "Cubic Feet". With the exception of property pages where volumes and linear dimensions can be maintained, all occurrences of Length, Width, Height and Laden Length will presented to this user in the Length UOM and all volumes will be presented in the implicit Volume UOM.
Currency: Mandatory. Can be any Currency configured in Transportation Manager. With the exception of property pages where monetary amounts can be maintained, Order Value and Declared Value will be presented to the user in this currency. On Rate Shop pages, user will have the option of presenting total amount in this Currency.

Approval Chain

Send Email for Alerts: Indicates whether emails should be sent to this user when an approval document is created, rejected or approved. Users can receive emails for approval documents that they are authorized to accept or reject.