InOrder ERP Recognizes the New DIM Factors
The major carriers have recently announced billing changes effective January 2015 that use new DIM factors and will increase shipping costs on most packages shipped.
To help more effectively estimate shipping rates, a new “DIM Factor” field is available on ship vias that compute shipping based on Weight Per Carton. If this field is empty or set to 0, the old method of calculating shipping charges is used (simple calculation of merchandise weight + carton weight).
When this field has a value >0, InOrder uses the item dimensions (height, weight, length) to determine appropriate cartons. InOrder calculates the carton’s dimensional weight and compares it to the merchandise weight, and the shipping charges are computed based off the greater of the merchandise weight and the dim weight. Then the shipping charges for each carton in the shipment are summed to calculate the estimated shipping charges for the shipment.
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