A load consists of one or more shipments, and a shipment has one or more shipment lines. Loads, shipments, and shipment lines are generated by Warehousing or by Freight. During the outbound
procedure, Warehousing generates loads and shipments for outbound order lines with status Staged, unless an actual Freight load plan is present.
A delivery note is a transport document that provides information on a consignment
contained in a single truck or other vehicle and refers to an order or a set of
orders for one consignee at a delivery address. It is one of the shipping
documents, in addition to packing slips, bills of lading, etc. that can be part
of a shipment procedure. You can use various parameters to control the usage of
delivery notes or other shipping documents.
Advance Shipment Notice (ASN)
An advance shipment notice is a notification that a shipment has been sent.
Advanced shipment notices are usually sent and received through Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI). You can receive advance shipment notices from your supplier
informing you that goods are to arrive at your warehouse, or you can send
advance shipment notices to your customers that their ordered goods are about
to be delivered.
In addition to generating shipments for warehousing orders, LN enables you to
manually create shipments and shipment lines. Manual shipments are used to ship
goods without performing LN warehousing procedures and related financial
transactions. You can use manual shipment and shipment lines to register goods
transports for items not registered in LN, or goods transports
for which no warehouse orders exist. For manually created shipments, you can
print delivery notes.
This procedure includes the steps, also called activities,
that you must perform in LN to ship goods that were issued from the warehouse by means of the
outbound procedure.
Shipping Sequence
For shipments based on sales schedules, you can view the
shipping sequence. The shipping sequence informs you about the sequence in
which your ship-to business partner needs the items on the assembly line.
Therefore, you must ship the goods in the specified sequence.
Consolidation of stockpoints
A stockpoint is the smallest inventory level that you can
register in LN. It
includes data such as the item, inventory date, and, if defined, lot number and
location. You can use the Consolidate Stock Points in one Shipment Line option
to consolidate the outbound advices of an order with different stockpoint
details into a single shipment line even if the outbound advice contain
multiples of the following:
When goods are picked and linked to a shipment, the
packaging reference distribution is created or updated and is used when
handling units are generated for a shipment line. This is applicable only for
the shipment lines that are created for a sales schedule. The distribution is
created based on the outbound order line reference distribution.
Shipment acceptance is part of the shipping process
applicable for the Material Inspection and Receiving Report (DD Form 250).
The report comprises a set of prescribed information
relevant to the shipping process and can be used for invoicing. The report is
generated as part of the shipping process and includes acceptance of the goods
by the customer. This report must be used by the contractors working for the US
Government.
On-time shipments
A stacked bar chart is available for viewing on-time
shipments, early shipments, and late shipments for a specific warehouse over a
specified period of time.
Completed shipments
A stacked bar chart is available for viewing completed
shipments and unfinished shipments for a specific warehouse for a specified
date range.