Printing of documents before shipment confirmation
Only after all shipment-related data and shipping documents have been validated, a shipment planner would confirm the shipment, which is the final step in the shipment execution process. Consequently, the shipment planner must be able to review the complete set of shipping documents before the shipment is confirmed.
The integration between LN and Automotive Exchange now enables the printing of all shipping documents before shipment confirmation. The option has been added to the menu of the Shipments and Loads sessions in LN. With this option, shipping documents can be printed by an external application, which is Automotive Exchange Shipping.
This printing step can be specified as a mandatory step in the shipment execution process, based on the configuration in the warehousing order type. In the BODs published by LN, an indicator then triggers the automatic printing of the required shipping documents for a specific business partner.