for capturing images of the condition of goods during the unload as noted above preferably the hand held terminal is a symbol technologies mc9090 in some cases it maybe desirable to take pictures before off loading or before loading to document the condition of the goods in the case where images are of such a bandwith that they constitute relatively large digital objects file transfer protocol ftp software may be utilized to upload or download the large digital objects to the server or to a user or customer location fig1 is an exemplary view of purchase order information after job completion note that in this figure there are general comments which in this case reads u201c boxes crushed see attached photo u201d as one can see to the right of the general comments box in fig1 there is a photo of damaged goods that is included in the completed purchase order in addition the signature of the person who participated in or supervised the unloading is included at the bottom fig1 is an exemplary layout of a key performance indicators kpi report again this is a location based report where information regarding activities at that location are aggregated and reported to measure the operational productivity and efficiency of that work location fig1 is a diagram of a purchase order search screen the search screen allows a user to identify information in the database that matches either exactly or partially the information provided by the user for example if a name of a carrier were entered and one desired to report a purchase orders from.