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Browse on Vessels

You use this program to view details of vessels carrying consignments of goods.

Vessels are added and maintained using the LCT Vessels program and details of their consignments are maintained using the LCT Shipment Maintenance program.

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Field Description
Advice

See Activity considerations in Notes and warnings.

Advice Select this to use the LCT Shipment Maintenance program to add or maintain the consignment details of the shipment currently highlighted in the listview.

Listview columns

This displays details of the shipments currently defined.

Column Description
Vessel Indicates the vessel number.
Name Indicates the name of the vessel.
Departure date Indicates the date when the vessel left its port of departure.
Estimated arrival date Indicates the estimated arrival date of the vessel.
Arrival date Indicates the date the vessel actually arrived.

This is not automatically updated when a shipment receipt is processed. This must be manually updated against the Actual arrival date field in the LCT Vessels program.

Route Indicates the route by which the vessel is arriving.
Place of shipment Indicates the port of origin of the vessel
Place of destination Indicates the port of destination of the vessel.

Notes and warnings

Deletion considerations

  • You cannot delete a vessel if any Invoices or Inventory Receipts have been posted against a shipment for that vessel.

Restricted maintenance

  • You cannot maintain information displayed in this listview if access to the program is set to Browse only, but access to the corresponding maintenance program is not allowed (see Security Access).

Activity considerations

Operator access to the following activities within this program can be restricted. You configure this using the Operators program.

Activity Description
PO LCT build shipment advice Controls whether an operator can access the Advice menu in the Shipment Tracking Entry program to maintain the consignment details for a shipment reference using the LCT Shipment Maintenance program.