Searching shipments
You can search for shipments that are not packed or partly packed. If the search is based on shipments, then shipment lines are displayed in the search result. You might see packed lines even if you select Open or Not Packed. A shipment remains in an Open status as long as there is at least one shipment line that is Not Packed or Partly Packed.
To search packagings:
- Select Shipping > Packagings.
- To search, use the filter function of the Column Filter Bar section.
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Specify this information:
- 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.
- Customer Name
- This field shows the name of a customer or a customer group.
- Shipper
- A shipper is a collection of shipments for one customer. This number
can be transferred from the ERP system.
In some ERP systems, the shipper ID corresponds to the shipment ID.
- Shipment
- This number identifies the shipment. A shipment contains several packaged items to be delivered to a customer's Ship To address.
- Packaging Status
- Specify this information: Specify a status to
search the status of the packaging on shipment level:
- Not Packed: Not packed.
- Partly packed: Partly packed
- Packed: Completely packed
- Accounting Entity
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For each user, one or more accounting entities must be configured. 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.
- After you specify the search terms, click the grid filtering button.
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The selected data is shown in the list.
- 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.
- Customer Name
- This field shows the name of a customer or a customer group.
- Shipper
- A shipper is a collection of shipments for one customer. This number
can be transferred from the ERP system.
In some ERP systems, the shipper ID corresponds to the shipment ID.
- Shipment
- This number identifies the shipment. A shipment contains several packaged items to be delivered to a customer's Ship To address.
- Line
- This field shows the invoice's line number.
- Item
- This field shows the item number that identifies the item.
- Item Description
- This field shows a short description of the item.
- Customer Item
- This field shows the customer item number, which is the article number of the customer.
- Packaging Status
- This field shows the status of the packaging: A status of
Not Packed, Partly
Packed, or Partly Unpacked
indicates that you must do the packaging manually.
These statuses are available:
- Not Packed: Not packed
- Partly Packed: Partly packed
- Packed: Completely packed
- Partly Unpacked: Partly packed in virtual container
- Unpacked: Intentionally unpacked in virtual container
- Quantity
- This field shows the quantity of the product that is delivered to the customer. The shipped quantity value is the sales order quantity. After a quantity is shipped, you can invoice that quantity.
- Quantity to be packed
- This field shows the part of the shipped quantity that has not yet been packed. This is the shipped quantity minus the quantity that has already been packed.
- Net Weight
- This field shows the aggregated total weight of the items in the container.
- Accounting Entity
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For each user, one or more accounting entities must be configured. 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.