Advance shipping notice

An advance shipping notice, or ASN, is a document that describes the contents and configuration of a forthcoming shipment.

In Distribution SX.e, you can send and receive ASNs.

Use Sales Entry Advance Shipping Notice (856) Report to produce an outbound EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice for customer trading partners through a third-party EDI software package. You can send advance shipping notices for Stock Orders (SO), Direct Orders (DO), and Blanket Releases (BR) in Stage 3 (Shipped) or Stage 4 (Invoiced).

Set up customers and customer ship tos to receive ASNs in Customer Setup-eCommerce and Customer Ship To Setup-eCommerce.

You can also receive an inbound EDI 856 Advance Ship Notice in EDI Entry Processing Ship Notice Report.

When you receive an Advance Ship Notice, a batch purchase order is created. Because the batch receiving file structure associates each purchase order header and line item with a shipment ID, you must receive the batch in Purchase Batch Receiving Entry after you receive the shipment. The shipment ID is sometimes referred to as a license plate and ties the shipment to the purchase order.

See the Infor Distribution SX.e Setup and Administration Guide for EDI.