Multiwarehouse shipments

The Shipment through Warehouse field in the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session is used to:

Consolidate shipment lines containing goods from specific warehouses into one shipment
Define the warehouse from which the actual shipping takes place

This is option is used in either of these cases:

The travelling distance and logistic handling time between a group of warehouses is negligible.
Multiple warehouses exist for administrative reasons, whereas there is only one actual warehouse from which shipping takes place.

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

In the Shipment through Warehouse field of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session, the main warehouse is specified for each warehouse that shares this warehouse as ship-from warehouse.

Example

Warehouses WH001, WH002 and WH003 are located on the same premises. For easy administration, shipping is done from WH003. For WH001 and WH002, specify WH003 as the main warehouse in the Shipment through Warehouse field of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session.

As a result, shipment lines that contain goods from warehouses WH001, WH002, and WH003 are combined in one shipment. WH003 is the main warehouse, from which shipping is done. WH001 and WH002 are the subwarehouses.

In the Shipments (whinh4130m000) session, the ship-from type and ship-from code of the shipment display WH003. On the shipment lines, the Warehouse field displays WH001 and WH002.

To prevent unwieldy clusters of main and subwarehouses:

In the Shipment through Warehouse field of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session, subwarehouses are unavailable.

For example, WH003 is a subwarehouse of WH055. Therefore, you cannot select WH003 as the main warehouse for WH001 and WH002.
For a warehouse that is selected as the main warehouse for one or more subwarehouses, the Shipment through Warehouse field is unavailable.