Dealing with Freight forwarder

[Varun Bhansaly]

Has anyone modeled the concept of "Freight forwarder" & used the it to
process orders in ofbiz order manager ?

Any suggestions or ideas on how to handle this ?

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Regards,
Varun Bhansaly

[BJ Freeman]

There are many different levels of freight forwarders and how much
interaction you let them have though the system.
you can use DHL which pretty much they handle everything so everything
is done as normal shipper.

Most Freight forwarder would handled as a Facility/shipper.

the next level is using a freight forwarder, where they do the packaging
of your shipment on ofbiz. The accounting gets complimented.

order wise the PO will specify the shipping address as the Freight
forwarder then a second PO to the Freight forwarder and shows all the
items they should expect to ship.




varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 9:44 AM:
> Has anyone modeled the concept of "Freight forwarder" & used the it to
> process orders in ofbiz order manager ?
>
> Any suggestions or ideas on how to handle this ?
>

[Varun Bhansaly]

The scenario I am trying to address - customer uses a freight forwarder &
resides in a country which does not fall under the jurisdiction of the
configured tax authority.

However, the freight forwarder resides in a Geo which falls under the
jurisdiction of the configured tax authority, so if freight forwarder's
address is used as shipping address for the order then taxes get applied.

Also, the order should be connected to end customer as well.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> There are many different levels of freight forwarders and how much
> interaction you let them have though the system.
> you can use DHL which pretty much they handle everything so everything
> is done as normal shipper.
>
> Most Freight forwarder would handled as a Facility/shipper.
>
> the next level is using a freight forwarder, where they do the packaging
> of your shipment on ofbiz. The accounting gets complimented.
>
> order wise the PO will specify the shipping address as the Freight
> forwarder then a second PO to the Freight forwarder and shows all the
> items they should expect to ship.
>
>
>
>
> varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 9:44 AM:
> > Has anyone modeled the concept of "Freight forwarder" & used the it to
> > process orders in ofbiz order manager ?
> >
> > Any suggestions or ideas on how to handle this ?
> >
>

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Regards,
Varun Bhansaly

[BJ Freeman]

Customer as in the one that has ofbiz or as one that enters orders into
ofbiz?

Please detail the steps starting with the first order that goes through
ofbiz to the the items that get shipped to the customer that placed the
original order.





varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 7:03 PM:

> The scenario I am trying to address - customer uses a freight forwarder &
> resides in a country which does not fall under the jurisdiction of the
> configured tax authority.
>
> However, the freight forwarder resides in a Geo which falls under the
> jurisdiction of the configured tax authority, so if freight forwarder's
> address is used as shipping address for the order then taxes get applied.
>
> Also, the order should be connected to end customer as well.
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> There are many different levels of freight forwarders and how much
>> interaction you let them have though the system.
>> you can use DHL which pretty much they handle everything so everything
>> is done as normal shipper.
>>
>> Most Freight forwarder would handled as a Facility/shipper.
>>
>> the next level is using a freight forwarder, where they do the packaging
>> of your shipment on ofbiz. The accounting gets complimented.
>>
>> order wise the PO will specify the shipping address as the Freight
>> forwarder then a second PO to the Freight forwarder and shows all the
>> items they should expect to ship.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 9:44 AM:
>>> Has anyone modeled the concept of "Freight forwarder" & used the it to
>>> process orders in ofbiz order manager ?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or ideas on how to handle this ?
>>>
>>
>
>
>

[Varun Bhansaly]

I am a business user who is using ofbiz to manage my business and serve my
customers.

My "customer" has been recorded as a party in the system and this person
sends us the PO.

We follow normal steps to create and process the order i.e. by using ofbiz
order manager and to avoid shipping charges we use standard shipping $0.00.


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:28 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Customer as in the one that has ofbiz or as one that enters orders into
> ofbiz?
>
> Please detail the steps starting with the first order that goes through
> ofbiz to the the items that get shipped to the customer that placed the
> original order.
>
>
>
>
>
> varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 7:03 PM:
> > The scenario I am trying to address - customer uses a freight forwarder &
> > resides in a country which does not fall under the jurisdiction of the
> > configured tax authority.
> >
> > However, the freight forwarder resides in a Geo which falls under the
> > jurisdiction of the configured tax authority, so if freight forwarder's
> > address is used as shipping address for the order then taxes get applied.
> >
> > Also, the order should be connected to end customer as well.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, BJ Freeman <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> There are many different levels of freight forwarders and how much
> >> interaction you let them have though the system.
> >> you can use DHL which pretty much they handle everything so everything
> >> is done as normal shipper.
> >>
> >> Most Freight forwarder would handled as a Facility/shipper.
> >>
> >> the next level is using a freight forwarder, where they do the packaging
> >> of your shipment on ofbiz. The accounting gets complimented.
> >>
> >> order wise the PO will specify the shipping address as the Freight
> >> forwarder then a second PO to the Freight forwarder and shows all the
> >> items they should expect to ship.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> varun bhansaly sent the following on 8/18/2011 9:44 AM:
> >>> Has anyone modeled the concept of "Freight forwarder" & used the it to
> >>> process orders in ofbiz order manager ?
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions or ideas on how to handle this ?
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>

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Regards,
Varun Bhansaly