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Setup: Pay Contract for Truck Contractor, Load Attributes
In order to set up rate to pay a contractor for load-based attributes you need to set up a 'Pay Contract' for the contractor. Select Contracts | Payment Contracts | Contract Setup from the Main Menu. This link explains how to use the 'Pay Contract Wizard' in order to set up a pay contract. (See Pay Contract Extensions for an explanation of how to pay based on distance.)
The key steps involved in setting up a contractor contract in the wizard are Steps 2 and 6:
Step 2: Select the Contractor for the Pay Contract
In this step, you select the contractor you want to pay. You must click on the 'Type' Contractor in the middle of the window; this selection will fill the list on the left with your contractors. You then select the contractor (you can only select one at a time) you want to pay.
Note that there is an entry called "OWNER". This entry is very powerful in that it acts like a wild card for trucking contractors. If you select OWNER, you can pay whichever contractor owns the truck that is entered on the load slip. Thus, if you want to pay all trucking contractors based on identical terms, you can setup just one pay contract using the OWNER wild card, and it will cover all trucking contractors. Moreover, if you use an OWNER contract, but want to pay one trucking contractor an exception rate, you can set up a specific contract for that trucking contractor. The Logger's Edge is smart enough to choose the specific trucking contractor contract when an OWNER contract might otherwise apply.
Example. I have five trucking contractors that work for me that get paid $8.00/Tonne, with the exception of Jeff Kent Contracting who gets $8.50 for his trucks. I set up one contract that pays "OWNER" to cover all trucking contractors. I then setup another contract to pay Jeff Kent Contracting specifically. This contract will trump the "OWNER" contract so that Jeff Kent Contracting will only be paid once.
Step 6. Enter Pay Rate
This is the step where you enter the rate you want to pay the contractor. A detailed explanation is available in the link: Setting up a Pay Rates: Calculate Pay based on Load Attributes. (As noted above, see Pay Contract Extensions for an explanation of how to pay based on distance.) The screen below shows an example of the rate screen.
The two requirements for a contractor to be paid according to a pay contract are:
(1) that the block on the pay contract must match the block of the load (or the block entry must be blank), and
(2) that the activity must be Trucking.
In this screen, you can set up the rate breaks you want to use to pay the trucking contractor. In row 1 (in the example above), I have entered a blank for the block, indicating I want a rate of $8.00/Tonne to apply to trucking for ALL blocks associated with this pay contract. In row 2, I have entered an 'exception' rate that indicates that if the trucking is performed in block '03-RAINBOW-2991', and delivered to 'GP-DAWSON,' I want to pay $9.00/Tonne. The rate in row 3 is the same as in row 2, except that the destination is different, thereby creating a rate break based on the destination mill. The rate in row 4, is the same as in row 3, except that it has an effective date of 6/1/2004 -- meaning the rate of $9.75/Tonne will apply for loads delivered on or after 6/1/2004. For loads delivered between 1/1/2004 and 5/31/2004, on block 03-RAINBOW-2991, the rate of $9.50 is operative.
