TWL carrier management

You can ship TWL orders through TWL or through a shipping interface. Use TWL Outbound-Shipping-Carrier Master to manage the carrier. Consider these options when determining carrier management:

TWL

For the carrier, if you select TWL in the Shipping Management-Parcel Management section, any shipment that uses this carrier as a ship via is controlled by TWL. When you release an order or transfer to TWL, the order passes through Order Drop Manager. In Order Drop Manager, the order, along with other orders, transfers, and vendor returns, is organized to be picked from storage locations.

After the order is fully picked, packed, and shipped, each line item transaction is sent by TWL for line level processing. A SHP communication is created in WL Transaction Inquiry. This communication contains the full information needed to update the full order if the order is shipped, or backorder products that were not shipped.

With this TWL option, you cannot add freight charges or print invoices to attach to the package, because the package has already been shipped.

Orders and transfers that are to be shipped by a carrier that is managed by TWL must pass through ship verification with the WL Entry Batch Shipping Report. You can view pending SHP communication for the WL Entry Batch Shipping Report in WL Transaction Inquiry. In Advanced Search, set this criteria:
  • Status Type= Active
  • Process Type=Shipped Orders
  • Trans Type=Received
  • Order Type=OE
The Order Data-Header data is updated with this information: shipped date, freight addons, ship via, and the number of packages shipped. The order is ready for invoicing.

When the carrier is managed by TWL, you can change the carrier on an order or transfer before shipping the order. The data collection in process is monitored by .

Host

For the carrier, if you select Host in the WL Transaction InquiryShipping Management-Parcel Management section, you can ship orders, transfers, and shipping requests with a shipping interface or the system. The packing process creates a PAK synchronize to the system. A shipping interface performs the necessary updates for orders, transfers, and shipping requests. Journal updates must use Transfer Shipping Feedback Entry to update transfers to Stage 3 (Shipped).

When you release an order or transfer to TWL, the order or transfer passes through Order Drop Manager. In Order Drop Manager, the order, along with other orders, transfers, and vendor returns, is organized to be picked from storage locations. After the order is fully picked and packed, orders with a ship via that is managed by the host are synchronized for processing.

Orders and shipping requests that you manually ship in Sales Shipping Feedback Entry require the ship verification step to upgrade the orders for further processing in the system. The ship verification step is performed in TWL or the shipping interface.

WL Transaction Inquiry

Use WL Transaction Inquiry to monitor this information:

  • Data collection in process
  • WL TransactionData ready for the processing function
  • Errors found during processing