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User Guide: Dangerous Goods

This document describes how to setup dangerous goods (hazardous goods), both in general and for each item. Dangerous goods are always handled as additional services for each carrier. The selection of the additional service is done automatically in Logtrade Connect based on settings for each item.

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Routine Description: Sales Order Validation Rules

There can be multiple reason why you would like to check if data on a sales order is correct before it is handed over to the warehouse. One reason could be to make sure zip code is correct, that the weight of the items isn’t to heavy based on what carrier product and service that should be used, that mobile phone number exists if advice should be used and so on. This will eliminate errors when the warehouse employees are creating consignments.

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User Guide: Web Shop Delivery Checkout Mapping

If you have a delivery checkout in your web shop it is important to translate your Delivery Options into Shipping Agent Code and Shipping Agent Service Code that is used in Dynamics 365BC. This document describes how you do this mapping and how it works on sales orders.

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User Guide: How to debug consignment messages

Every time Dynamics 365 Business Central communicates with LogTrade a SOAP/XML message is sent from BC as a request and a response is sent back. By default these messages are always stored in BC to make it easier to debug the integration.

This document describes how you can see what information that has been sent from BC to LogTrade and also how you can change the default debug setup.

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User Guide: Brexit Setup Changes

Based on that Great Britain left the European Union some small changes need to be done in Dynamics to generate customs invoices. These changes have nothing to do with LogTrade Connect. It is changes that needs to be done anyway for example based on Intrastat reporting. This document does not cover anything else than how to change settings to be able to generate a customs invoices from Dynamics. Other setup regarding posting of costs etc that might be needed or wanted is not covered.

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User Guide: Brexit Setup Changes

Based on that Great Britain left the European Union some small changes need to be done in Dynamics to generate customs invoices. These changes have nothing to do with LogTrade Connect. It is changes that needs to be done anyway for example based on Intrastat reporting. This document does not cover anything else than how to change settings to be able to generate a customs invoices from Dynamics. Other setup regarding posting of costs etc that might be needed or wanted is not covered.

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User Guide: How to setup authentication for rest api

LogTrade Connect includes a REST API that can be used by external apps to access LogTrade Connect.

One example is the push of consignment status updates. To enable this push of data authentication must be setup in BC and LogTrade needs the information on how to setup the communication to the specific company within the tenant.

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User Guide: Self Study Part 1

This document describes the Self Study Part 1 for LogTrade Connect for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. A Self Study Part consists of different User Guides and Routine Descriptions and part 1 is focused on the most important User Guides that we think is important for every ERP consultant and super users.

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Change Log Dynamics NAV

This document describes all updates that has been done to LogTrade Connect for Dynamics NAV. The Dynamics NAV objects (fob files, extension packages etc) can be downloaded from LogTrade Connect OneDrive. To get download rights just send an e-mail to connect@logtrade.se and we add rights to your work e-mail address.

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User Guide: Consignment Contact information

This document describes how we collect data for the following fields in LogTrade Connect (referred to as “the three fields” in the text below):

  • Ship-to E-mail
  • Ship-to Mobile Phone No.
  • Ship-to Phone No.

These field on a consignment are based on the corresponding fields on the address record of type “Delivery” that is linked to the consignment.

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Installation Guide: Install LogTrade Connect App

This document describes how to do install and uninstall LogTrade Connect for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central from Microsoft AppSource, that means that this guide is for the SaaS solution. If running an OnPrem solution the Dynamics 365 Business Central vendor will install the app as any other app.

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User Guide: Goods Types

Goods Types describes what is in the package or loaded on the pallet. This document goes through the setup of this part.

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User Guide: Package Types

Package Types describes how the goods is packed. It describes possibilities with default values for measurements, cost codes etc.

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User Guide: Shipment Methods

In this document you will learn about shipment methods that controls who will pay for the freight and associated freight fees like customs fee etc. This is a very important setting to know about.

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User Guide: Shipping Agent Customer Numbers

For each shipping agent you must have one or more customer number. If the recipient should pay for the freight, they need a customer number. In this document you will learn about how to setup customer umbers for different entities.

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User Guide: Shipping Agent

In this document you map a carrier from LogTrade to a Shipping Agent in Dynamics 365 Business Central, and also a carrier product to a Shipping Agent Service. For each Shipping Agent Service, you can have different settings to make the workflow more or less automatic.

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User Guide: Printer Queues

This document describes more about print queues for Integrated Printing and how to map them to a user to get fast and automatic printing without opening the documents on the screen or redirecting pdf files.

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User Guide: LogTrade Users

This document describes how to create LogTrade users and how to map them to Dynamics 365 Business Central users and default values for each user.

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User Guide: Delivery Setup

The Delivery Setup contains the basic settings. After finishing the Assisted Setup many of the settings are already done but this user guide describes the Delivery Setup in detail. We are going through default values, customs invoice setup etc.

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Workflow Description: Print Package Labels from Inventory Pick

This document describes how you print package labels and waybills based on an Inventory Pick in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It is possible to print labels for one inventory pick at the time or to deliver several inventory picks in the same package/consignment.

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User Guide: Role Centers

This document describes all different role centers that are used for LogTrade Connect. The document describes what parts of the role centers that are modified and where more functionality has been added.

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Routine Description: Split shipment and customs invoice

This document describes basic setup and the process of creating split-shipment consignments for example when shipping to Norway (or other non-EU countries) or just anytime you need a split shipment process (sometimes called bulk sending).

One main reason to use a split-shipment process is when you want to consolidate customs invoices for several orders/consignments to one invoice. This is normal to keep the customs cost as low as possible. But there are other reasons than customs for creating split-shipment consignments.

 

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Produktblad LogTrade Connect för Pyramid (Koppling TA-system)

Smidig, enkel och effektiv hantering av sändningar.

Denna modul är framtagen för kommunikation med LogTrade. Pyramid förser endast TA-systemet med grundläggande information vid hantering av transportdata . Denna information måste kompletteras i TA-systemet.

TA-systemet ansvarar t.ex. för validering av sändning, utskrift av transportdokument samt generering av transport-EDI, etc. Viss återkoppling av information från TA-systemet till Pyramid sker.

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Routine Description: Activate Customs Invoice

A customs invoice is created based on the shipped items to help the carrier to do customs clearance for your shipment. With correct setup a customs invoice will be generated automatically by collecting information from setup on the items. This document describes how to get going me automatic customs invoices.

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Workflow Description: Print package labels from Sales Order

This document describes how you print package labels and waybills based on a Sales Order in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It is possible to print labels for one order at the time or to deliver several orders in the same package/consignment.

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User Guide: Assisted Setup

This document describes how to do assisted setup in LogTrade Connect for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. After the assisted setup is completed the system is ready for creating transport documents or you can do more advanced setup. During the setup process necessary codes and values are downloaded. For example, carrier product codes, package types and more. A carrier product is a service the carrier has, for example part load, full load, agent delivery, home delivery, business package service etc, equivalent to Shipping Agent Services.

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Change Log Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

This document describes all releases of LogTrade Connect for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.

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Koppling TA-system 3.41A

Handbok för Koppling TA-System i Pyramid Business Studio för användning med Microsoft Windows. Anvisningarna gäller från version 3.41A. För senare förändringar eller tillägg, hänvisas till programmets hjälpavsnitt eller särskild dokumentation.

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Automatic additional services (advice, insurance, heat etc)

Services in LogTrade is additional services connected to a carrier product (Shipping Agent Service Code) to add value normally for the sender or recipient. Services can also be LogTrade services like e-mail advice, return labels sent through e-mails etc. Depending on the service an extra charge can apply or the opposite. One example is that on end-consumer products SMS-advice is normally free of charge but letter advice costs extra.

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Order Automation

In LogTrade Connect for Microsoft Dynamics NAV you can use functionality to create consignments automatically from different triggers. It is also possible to use functionality to automatically set Number of Packages, Gross Weight and what items that are shipped. By combining different setup parameters, you can reach different automation levels.

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Activate Customs Invoice

This document describes how to setup LogTrade Connect for Dynamics NAV to work with customs invoices. This workflow can be manual or automatic based on the quality of your item base data. It is possible to create customs invoices automatically and send them electronic to the carrier based on the items that you ship. You can work with different invoice layouts if the invoice needs to be printed.

It is important to do the settings correct to achieve a simple process handled on the warehouse when shipping to eliminate errors and get an efficient process.

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Split Shipments for Customs

This document describes basic setup and the process of creating split-shipment consignments for example when shipping to Norway (or other non-EU countries) or just anytime you need a split shipment process (sometimes called bulk sending).

One main reason to use split-shipment process is when you want to consolidate customs invoices for several orders/consignments to one invoice. This is normal to keep the customs cost as low as possible. But there are other reasons than customs for creating split-shipment. In that case just skip the steps regarding the invoice below.

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Install and upgrade instructions

This document is targeted towards the developer doing the install of objects/extension and/or doing an upgrade of the same. It also handles where to download the latest objects for each version.

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Developer guide for LogTrade Connect for Dynamics NAV

This documentation is targeted towards developers and describes technical aspects of LogTrade Connect and integration with standard NAV.

The reader of this document should first read the user’s guide which explains the application, how it communicates with LogTrade, the Setup Wizard, fields in tables etc.

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Installation Guide: Integrated Printing

To enable high speed automated printing of package labels, waybills and other documents LogTrade Technology has developed a printing software called LogTrade Integrated Printing, running as a Windows service.

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Supported Carriers

This document describes which carriers that are supported for different continents, regions and countries.

The LogTrade Generic Carrier can be used from anywhere in the world and documents supported are waybill and labels in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish. Customs invoices are always in English and Dangerous Goods documents in English, Swedish or Norwegian.

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Supported Carriers

This document describes which carriers that are supported for different continents, regions and countries.

The LogTrade Generic Carrier can be used from anywhere in the world and documents supported are waybill and labels in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish. Customs invoices are always in English and Dangerous Goods documents in English, Swedish or Norwegian.

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Supported Carriers

This document describes which carriers that are supported for different continents, regions and countries.

The LogTrade Generic Carrier can be used from anywhere in the world and documents supported are waybill and labels in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish. Customs invoices are always in English and Dangerous Goods documents in English, Swedish or Norwegian.

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Supported Carriers

This document describes which carriers that are supported for different continents, regions and countries.

The LogTrade Generic Carrier can be used from anywhere in the world and documents supported are waybill and labels in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian or Finnish. Customs invoices are always in English and Dangerous Goods documents in English, Swedish or Norwegian.

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Installation Guide: Integrated Printing

To enable high speed automated printing of package labels, waybills and other documents LogTrade Technology has developed a printing software called LogTrade Integrated Printing, running as a Windows service.

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Setup wizard guide

This document describes the basic setup of LogTrade Connect for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. The setup is done with a wizard that takes you through each necessary step.

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Installation Guide: Integrated Printing

To enable high speed automated printing of package labels, waybills and other documents LogTrade Technology has developed a printing software called LogTrade Integrated Printing, running as a Windows service.

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Delivery Mode Setup and Mapping

Delivery mode mapping is a central part of the setup since each delivery mode corresponds to one carrier product in LogTrade. This document describes how to setup delivery modes and all relative data and settings like associated package types, service groups and default values.

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Address and Contact Setup

This document describes how you define addresses and contact information differently based on different carriers, customers etc. It is possible to have different source for your address information based on for example carrier, carrier product, customer, source document etc.

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Package Type Groups

For each carrier product it is possible to use different packages types, for example pallets, packages, tubes etc. Each carrier product can have different codes for these types. To simplify the processes, you can define package type groups which means that the user will not have to consider the different package codes and instead use user defined groups.

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Default Services

This document describes the possibilities to add services to shipments by default. These default services can be defined at a company-wide level, for a specific customer, or for a specific order. A shipment service is for example advice, heat, cold, time definite deliveries or other extra services that can be added to a shipment.

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Functions, generic and custom

In the LogTrade Connect module there are some places where functions are used. These various functions are written based on small frameworks, so if you need to have your own functions, you or your partner can write these. Functions can be used to specify default values from different sources etc.

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Installation Guide: Integrated Printing

To enable high speed automated printing of package labels, waybills and other documents LogTrade Technology has developed a printing software called LogTrade Integrated Printing, running as a Windows service.

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Complete User Manual

This document is a complete User Manual describing LogTrade Connect for Microsoft Dynamics NAV in detail. All functionality is described and the instructions are divided in chapters per functionality. You can see this document as the complete guide to every singel setup possible. Apart from this manual you can also find other documents that are more of “guide”-character on this LogTrade Connect site.

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Create Shipment

This document describes the method when you want to create a shipment from a source document in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. this is the main process for creating shipments and printing package labels and waybills, including additional information like customs invoices etc.

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