Shipment validation - to correct validation errors

EXM can return various validation errors, such as:

Details about validation errors are displayed in the Message Log (tcstl1500m000) session, which you can open in the appropriate menu of the Shipments (whinh4130m000) or Loads (whinh4140m000) session. If no errors are present (when the shipment validation status is Validated), this session is not available.

To correct shipment structures, handling unit structures, and most other shipment data, reopening and refreezing the loads or shipments is required. Refreezing automatically publishes this data to EXM.

However, reopening and refreezing the loads or shipments is not required to correct the following data:

  • The Tracking Number on the shipment and the Carrier Tracking Number on the load. If you change these numbers on the frozen shipment or load, the validation status changes to Modified.
  • Master data not maintained on the shipment or load, but printed on the shipping documents, such as the Our Supplier Number. Correcting this data does not affect the validation status.

To publish corrected load, shipment, or other master data for which reopening and refreezing is not required, use the Publish Shipment or Publish Load options in the Shipments (whinh4130m000) or Loads (whinh4140m000) session.

Refreezing or using the publishing options resets the validation status to Validating.

Note
  • You can publish a load irrespective of the statuses of the shipments linked to the loads.
  • To confirm a load, the status of the shipments of the load and the load itself must be Validated.
  • If all but one of the shipments linked to a load are confirmed, this last shipment can only be confirmed if the load status is Validated. This is to prevent that validation errors of the load are overlooked.
To overrule the EXM Validating or Validation Error status

If a shipment must be shipped urgently despite unfinished validation or validation errors, authorized users can validate shipments or loads with the Validating or Validation Error statuses. For this purpose, the Release Shipment or Release Load option is used in the Shipments (whinh4130m000) or Loads (whinh4140m000) session. The status is then set to Validated.

This authorization is provided if the Release Unvalidated Loads/Shipments check box is selected for a user in the Warehousing User Profiles (whwmd1540m000) session.

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