Selecting a packaging instruction

Select Shipping > Manage Packaging.

Click Drill down to open a shipment line.

Click Edit.

Click More (ellipsis icon) to select the Select Packaging Instruction option.

Review and specify this information:

Use these filter criteria to restrict the displayed packaging instructions: equals, does not equal, contains, starts with, ends with, is empty, is not empty. Additionally, you can use Calendar to select a date range in the Effective from Date and Effective to Date fields.

Item

This field shows the item number that identifies the item.

Trading Partner

This field contains the trading partner. The trading partners are maintained as master data codes.

Customer

This field contains an arbitrary set of characters that is used to uniquely identify a customer in an accounting entity. The customer is read from the ERP system.

Ship To

This field indicates the location code that is used with the Ship To Name to identify where the goods are shipped.

If goods are delivered to an external service provider (ESP), the field indicates the Ship To location of the ESP.

Accounting Entity

For each user, one or more accounting entities can be configured in the security administration. For a specific user, you must set one of these accounting entities as default accounting entity.

Each transaction belongs to this default accounting entity of the user. The user can alter the default accounting entity using the Accounting Entity combo box.

The user can view the data of the default and all other assigned accounting entities.

Packaging Instruction

This field shows a code to identify the packaging instruction that describes how the item must be packaged.

Effective from Date

This field shows the first day on which a record or a setting is valid. The settings are valid until the Effective to Date.

Effective to Date

This field shows the last day on which a record or a setting is valid. See Effective from Date.

Click OK.