Shipments

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. You can also manually create loads and shipments to adjust or replace generated loads and shipments.

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 that can be part of a shipment procedure. You can use various parameters to control the usage of delivery notes.

An advance shipment notice is a notification that a shipment has been sent. Advanced shipment notices are 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.

Projected shipments are preliminary shipments created before the picking process has started.

The purpose of creating shipments at this early stage in the outbound process is to prepare labeling and to publish the shipments before the goods to be shipped reach the staging area, which enhances the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the process.

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. You can view the shipping sequence data in the Shipping Sequence (whinh4520m000) session.

A stock point 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 outbound advice of an order with different stock point details into a single shipment line.

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.

Global trade compliance checking is an optional additional step in the outbound flow. It is a process that verifies if specific export requirements are met. For this purpose, this process performs various checks on shipment lines. For example, to check if the required licenses are present to export the item to the destination country.

To control transport costs, various organizations require their suppliers to ask for approval if the transport costs exceed the agreed terms. The supplier is to request a customer authorization number.

When granted by the customer, the supplier specifies the customer authorization number on the load.

Various customers require their suppliers to ship their goods to an intermediate consignee, where the goods are repacked or redistributed before being sent on to the final destination at the customer's. All logistics, and, if applicable, tax and customs handling is taken care of by the customer.

Scan-to-verify is an optional step that you can add to the outbound flow. It is a process that is used to verify if the handling units about to be loaded at the staging location match the handling units linked to the shipment lines in LN. If yes, the handling units can be loaded, the shipments can be confirmed, and the ASNs can be sent.

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 is 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.

In this way, you can skip specifying transfer orders to register inventory movements from the storage warehouses to the ship-from warehouse.

You can create pro forma invoices for frozen or confirmed shipments using the Process Pro Forma Invoices (whinh4279m000) session.

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.

A stacked bar chart is available for viewing completed shipments and unfinished shipments for a specific warehouse for a specified date range.