Freight Setup

These settings control freight management behaviour.

Strict Freight Points

  • OFF (default): When a freighter trip leg status changes to Departed or Arrived, the system updates each pallet’s current freight point using the pallet’s allocated transfer point or allocated delivery point — whichever applies — rather than the trip leg’s literal departure point. The system is allocation-aware and does not enforce that the pallet is physically recorded at a specific location before the status change is allowed.

  • ON: Before a freighter trip leg can be set to Departed, the system validates that each pallet on that leg is already recorded as being at the leg’s departure point. If a pallet’s current freight point does not match the expected departure point, the status change is blocked.

    Example:
    Pallet X has an allocated transfer point of CFCRICH and a loading freight point of NOVO. With Strict Freight Points ON, setting the trip leg to Departed will be blocked because the pallet’s current freight point is NOVO, not CFCRICH. The system expects the pallet to already be at CFCRICH before the leg can depart.

    Note

    This setting is not commonly used and is currently switched OFF for most ProduceLinc installations.

Pallet Mov. In-Transit Point

Specifies the freight point code that represents pallets currently in transit (e.g., on a vessel at sea, or between depots). When a pallet is moving between locations and has not yet arrived at its destination, its current freight point is set to this value. Must be configured before using pallet transfer functionality.

The recommended value to use here is IN TRANSIT. Before this field can be set, the in-transit freight point must be created as a Linc Lookup Value of type “Freight Point” and must also be set up in Point Mappings with a mapping type of Location.

Pallet Movement Header In = Out

This setting is not applicable to ProduceLinc clients trading in pallets.

Default SOLAS Method

SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) is an international maritime regulation that governs how the weight of packed shipping containers is certified. ProduceLinc supports two approaches:

  • Method 1: Weight is certified by physically weighing the fully packed container
  • Method 2: Weight is calculated by adding the weights of the individual cargo items plus packaging materials and the container tare weight

This setting controls which method is pre-selected when a new freight container is created. Users can override it per container.

Suppress VGM on SOLAS 2

VGM (Verified Gross Weight) is the certified total weight of a packed shipping container, required under SOLAS for international ocean shipments.

  • OFF (default): When pallets are added to a SOLAS Method 2 freight container, the system checks that every pallet ID being added has a Verified Gross Weight value recorded against it. If even one pallet ID has no Verified Gross Weight, the system blocks the action with an error. All pallets on a SOLAS Method 2 container must carry a VGM value before they can be loaded onto that container.

  • ON: The VGM check is bypassed entirely. Pallets can be added to a SOLAS Method 2 container regardless of whether a Verified Gross Weight has been recorded. Use this when VGM certification is handled externally by your freight forwarder or shipping agent and is not recorded in ProduceLinc.

Default Commercial Invoice Title

The default title printed at the top of commercial invoice documents when no other title is specifically configured. Select from the available lookup values.