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Load Customer archive (CUS)

Possible fields to be loaded into RamBase are listed in the Field-column in the following table. The other columns in this table provide additional information about each field.

Field

Required

Length

Example

Description

NAME

Y*

Doe

Company name, or a person's surname.

*Required, if EXTID is not provided.

EXTID

Y*

External customer reference/identifier.

*Required if NAME is not provided.

POCODE

Y

5578

Postal Code. Will be validated against the POC archive in RamBase. Illegal values will be discarded.

CITY

Y

NEDRE VATS

City/town/village.

CCODE

Y

2

NO

Country code is a two-character code identifying a country. The code follows the ISO 3166 standard. Will be validated against the CON archive in RamBase.

CUR

3

NOK, EUR

Currencies this customer buys in. May contain a comma list if several are used. Is validated against a subset of ISO 4217.

ST

Y

1

4

Status of the customer. 1:New, 2:Pending internal approvement, 4:Active, 9:Obsolete. Defaults to 2 if not provided.

ACCOUNT

10000

Customer Id. Unique number created by RamBase. Provide this value if you want to update an existing customer.

FIRSTNAME

John

A person's first name.

ATTN

Jane Doe

Attention.

ADDR1

Mystery Lane 123

First address line.

ADDR2

Post box 9077

Second address line.

STATE

Y*

CA

* Required if country (CCODE) is Canada or USA.

PHONE

+4752763390

Customer's main phone number. Can not contain any letters or spaces, but + is OK as prefix. Must be four digits or more.

EMAIL

john.doe@msn.com

Customer's main mail address. Will be validated.

FAX

+34915300164

Customer's main fax number. Can not contain any letters or spaces, but + is OK as prefix. Must be six digits or more.

ENTERPRISE

924054832

Legal entity, a unique enterprise/organization number. The format is different from country to country.

VATNO

DK669248438

Value Added Tax (VAT) registration number. Unique number assigned by the relevant tax authority. This format is different from country to country.

LANGUAGE

3

eng

Preferred language. Value is stored as a three character code, according to ISO 639-2 standard. Will be used to produce output to customer in correct language.

SHIPBYNO

100036

Preferred shipping method for sales orders. Will typically be a carrier's product. Numbers are references to SHP archive.

DELTERM

FCA, Incoterm 2010

Delivery terms for shipments to customer. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

DELTERMPLACE

Oslo

The place of delivery at which you are responsible to deliver goods according to the delivery terms.

PAYTERM

NET,10

Payment terms. Duedate on invoice documents are calculated based on Payterm. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

Valid options:

ADVANCE - Payment in advance

NET, X - Day(s) net

COD - Cash on delivery

COP - Cash on pick up

EOCM, X - Net x day(s) EOM

PAYBY

Credit card

Method of payment. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

PRICEAGR

100-PR

Quantity Price Agreement. E.g 100-PR means that even if an order line is for less quantity than 100 pieces, it will pick of the volume price of 100 pieces from the product (ART). Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

INDEXAGR

80/1.5

Exchange fluctuation rate agreement. When an order is issued, RamBase stores the current exchange rate and the currency the part normally is purchased in. The exchange rate might have changed when the invoice is issued. The exchange rate fluctuation agreement specifies how to handle these differences. The agreement has the format AAA/BBB, where AAA is a percentage of the total invoice, and BBB is the exchange rate fluctuation percentage.

E.g. 80/3.0 means that if the rate of exchange on the date a customer order is transported to an invoice has changed more than +/- 3% from the rate of exchange, 80% of the invoice amount will be adjusted.                  

ACCOUNTCL

C

Classification of customers. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

DISTRICT

South

A geographic district for which an individual sales person or a sales team hold responsibility. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

SEGMENT

Military

The market segment the customer operates within. Valid options have to be set up by JHC personnel in advance.

SECTOR

Distributor

The sector the customer belongs to. Valid options have to be set up by JHC in advance.

INCLVAT

NO

Specifies how value added tax (VAT) should be calculated. Either always include VAT, always exclude VAT or use standard/default VAT rules.

Valid options are:

YES = if the customer always should pay VAT

NO = if the customer never should pay VAT

‘blank’ = Std VAT rules will be used.

CREDITLIM

20000

Maximum limit for customer credit, in currency given by company currency.

CREDITINS

400000

Credit amount insured for the customer, in company currency.

INSCOMPANY

AIG

Insurance company used by the customer for credit insurance.

DUEAPPROVE

NO

"YES" if approval before shipping orders are required when outstanding accounts are overdue.

REMINDER

YES

Set to "NO" if  dunning letters for outstanding amounts should not be created for the customer.

INTFEE

25

Interest rate used when creating interest invoices for invoices that have past duedate.

SHIPDAY

2

D3

Specifies which day orders will be shipped. Valid options are:

V1-V5 = E.g V1 means Monday in the week before orders requested/confirmed date.

W1-W5 = E.g W2 means Monday in the week the order is requested confirmed.

D0-D9 = E.g D2 means two days before the order is requested/confirmed.

If no value is provided, this is understood as D0.

If the shippingday is based on requested or confirmed date is depending on set up in SHIPONCONF.

SHIPONCONF

YES

If set to YES, orders should be shipped to meet the confirmed date rather than requested. Is used in combination with SHIPDAY.

If no value is provided, this is understood as NO.

SHIPCOMPLETEITM

YES

Decides whether the whole quantity in an order item always should be shipped together. If set to YES, the order item should never be splitted into several shipments.

If no value is provided, this is understood as NO.

SHIPCOMPLETEDOC

YES

Decides whether all items of an order should be shipped together. If set to YES, the items of an order should never be splitted into several

shipments.

If no value is provided, this is understood as NO.

SHIPCONS

YES

Decides whether order items will be consolidated into shipping advices in automatic processes. If set to NO, each order will result in separate shipping advice. If set to YES, several orders will be consolidated in to one Shipping Advise.

If no value is provided, this is understood as NO.

SHIPGROUPBY

YOURNO

Field to group by if the value YES is set in the SHIPCONS field.

SHIPSORTBY

PART

Field to sort by if the value YES is set in the SHIPCONS field.

SHIPSUBFGT

YES

Decides whether freight should be charged on sub-shipments or not.

If no value is provided, this is understood as NO.

SHCODE

SHC/100007

Refers to special shipping and handling code for orders from this customer. Valid options have to be set up in SHC archive prior to the load.

INVCONS

1

M

Specifies whether or how often shipping advise items will be consolidated when creating  invoices. Valid options are:

N = No consolidation

X = Excluded from automatic creation of invoice.

D = Daily

W = Weekly

M = Monthly

If no value is provided, this is understood as the value N (No consolidation),  which means that the invoice is automatically created when the shipping advise is sent.

INVGROUPBY

YOURNO

Field to group by if the values D, W or M are set in the INVCONS field.

INVSORTBY

PART

Field to sort by if the values D, W or M are set in the INVCONS field.

FEEPCT

5

Percentage of financial charge to be added to orders.

FEE

50

An amount in document currency that will be added to an order.

QUOTEBLOCKED

YES

Sales quotes for  this customer will be blocked for registering.

ORDERBLOCKED

YES

Orders for this customer will be blocked for registering.

INVOICEBLOCKED

YES

Invoices for this customer will be blocked for registering.

SHIPPINGADVICEBLOCKED

YES

Shipping advices for this customer will be blocked for registering.

MSG

Customer wants estimates in EURO.

Internal note/notice about the customer.

MINGM

20

The minimum accepted gross margin in percentage (%).

ICTDB

JHR-NO

Inter Company Trading DataBase. Used to identify internal customer/suppliers.

PIDEXT

902

Account manager, refers to a PER.

PIDINT

8900

Account sales assistant, refers to a PER.

EDIACCOUNT

1234567

Electronic data interchange account number.

EDIPARTNER

STANDARDEHF

Electronic data interchange partner.

SEMAIL

john.doe@msn.com

Email for the default shipping address for customer. Will be validated.

SPHONE

4752763390

Phone for the default shipping address for customer. Can not contain any letters or spaces, but + is OK as prefix. Must be four digits or more.

PLINO

6

100000

Identification number of Price list (PLI) the customer belongs to.

PLINAME

Price list name.