Shipping Agent Calendars & Base Calendars

Base Calendar on Location

If you are working with locations you can setup a default Calendar on the Location Card which will enable the calculation of non-working days of your company.
When you are creating the Transport Order the system will calculate the pick-up date based on the requested delivery date – shipping time and – the non-working dates

This can be applicable if for instance you warehouse is closed in the weekend and the customer delivery request is on a monday.
Business Central will suggest a pick-up date based on the shipping time. Usually 1 day and will prepare a transportorder with pick-up date (day) sunday.
When the calendar is in place the proposed day will be the last working day (Friday)

Shipping Agent Calendar

On the Shipping Agent and/or Shipping Agent Service it’s possible to set restriction on the carriers.

Via Shipping Agent Calendars it is possible to set Pick-up times and Delivery times which will be passed to a Transport Order. Also it is possible to attach a Base Calendar.

For instance a carrier which will only pick-up until 3:00 PM or only pick-up between 5 and 9 PM or only has weekday delivery

Check the ShipIT setup Base Preferred Date: When working with above scenarios the Planned Date is most likely the preferred option for the warehouse and shipping process.