Manufacture Cargo form

Operations Cargo Cargo Lots Cargo Lots view Actions Other Manufacture Cargo Manufacture Cargo form

From the Actions menu in the following Inspectors:

Cargo Lots view Cargo Lot Inspector

Bills of Lading view Bill of Lading Inspector Items tab Bill of Lading Item form Cargo Lots tab

Units view Unit Inspector Cargo Lots tab

Vessel Visits view Vessel Visit Inspector Cargo Lots tab

Train Visits view Train Inspector Cargo on Board tab

Railcar Visits Railcar Visits view Railcar Visit Inspector Cargo on Board tab

Some terminals have manufacturing or assembly operations as part of the complex. In such cases cargo does not come from the outside; instead, it is manufactured in the yard. N4 enables you to create cargo lots for cargo that is manufactured at the facility. When you manufacture cargo in N4, you can assign a valid yard position to the cargo lot. This unit can then be loaded onto an outbound carrier to leave the facility.

For example, a bill of lading lists an order for a customer for five rolls of steel. When you produce the rolls, you can use N4 to create a cargo lot for the rolls and assign a yard position so that you can load the cargo on to a vessel. The yard position can represent the end of a manufacturing or assembly line where you collect the finished goods before they are shipped.

Prerequisites for manufacturing cargo

A vessel visit in the Working phase.
An Export bill of lading (on page 1).
A bill of lading item (on page 1) for bulk or non-bulk cargo.
A default cargo lot (added when you save the BL item).

To manufacture cargo:

In the Cargo Lots view (on page 1), select the default cargo lot(s) or the identified cargo lot(s) that you want to manufacture.

If you select multiple cargo lots and any of the selected cargo lots is already associated with a unit, N4 displays an error message.

Select Actions Other Manufacture Cargo.
In the Manufacture Cargo form:

Enter a valid Yard Position.

If you enter a yard position where you previously manufactured cargo (a unit already exists at that yard position), N4 does not create a new unit record, instead it updates the existing unit to reflect the change in the quantity and also records another CARGO_MANUFACTURED event against the Unit.

If you do not want to manufacture the entire cargo lot, edit the value in the Quantity field to specify the quantity that you want to manufacture at the specified yard position.

However, the Quantity field does not display if you select multiple cargo lots in the list view or if you select an identified cargo lot.

When the value specified in the Quantity field is less than the cargo lot quantity, N4 creates a new cargo lot record with the specified quantity and reduces the same amount from the quantity for the selected cargo lot.

For example, if the quantity for the default cargo lot is 100, but you enter 60 in the Quantity field in the Manufacture Cargo form, N4 creates the cargo lot and the unit record with Quantity = 60 and sets the Quantity of the default cargo lot as 40.

Click Save.

When you successfully manufacture cargo at the specified yard position, N4:

Updates the default cargo lot record in the Cargo Lots view with:

Unit Nbr = Unit Nbr of the new unit created in the Units view.
Quantity = Total quantity of the selected cargo lot(s).
Position = Yard Position specified in the Manufacture Cargo form.
Lot Type = Yard
Lot Position = Yard Position specified in the Manufacture Cargo form.

Creates a new unit in the Units view with:

T-state = Yard
Position = Yard Position specified in the Manufacture Cargo form.
Cargo Quantity = Total quantity of the selected cargo lot(s).

If you select identified cargo lots in the Cargo Lots view, N4 creates a unit for each of the identified cargo lots.

Records the CARGO_MANUFACTURED event against the Unit and the Cargo Lot records.
Records the GC_MANUFACTURE events against the Cargo Lot and the Bill of Lading Item records.
Records the STORAGE event in the Chargeable Unit Events view with status QUEUED, if the N4 setting INVBILLING002 is set as PRIMARY.