Shipment validation

Shipment validation is a step that you can add to the outbound flow. If implemented, shipment validation can be an optional or a mandatory process.

This process performs various checks on shipments, such as these:

• Are the required handling units present?
• Are the tracking numbers present?
• Are the supplier numbers present?

These checks are based on user defined sets of validation rules. Each validation rule consists of one or more validation checks. You can define validation rules for shipments based on specific warehousing order types, or shipments shipped to specific sold-to or ship-to business partners.

If the validation is successful, you can confirm the shipments. For unsuccessful validations, how to proceed depends on the setup: if the validation error is blocking, you must correct the error before you can confirm the shipment. If the error is not blocking, a warning is displayed, but you can proceed and confirm the shipment without correcting the error.

If a shipment must be shipped urgently despite validation errors, authorized users can confirm shipments despite blocking validation errors.