How the rules are applied

This overview shows how the shipment order processing rules are applied to shipment orders.

Create shipment order processing rules
Assign rules to owner, ship to, or both in the Shipment Order Processing Rules field

Create a shipment order

This table shows the shipment order processing rules are validated when the shipment order is saved:


If	Then
The order is saved with a rule selected	The rule is assigned to the shipment order
The order is saved with NONE selected for the rule	The rule assigned on the Ship To page is checked
The rule is selected on the Ship To page	The rule is assigned to the order
The rule is not selected on the Ship To page	The Owner page is checked for a shipment order processing rule
The rule is selected on the Owner page	The rule is assigned to the order

Allocate and release the order
Perform load maintenance. If you change the ship order processing rule on the Load Maintenance page, then the rule for all orders on the load are updated. The rule cannot be set to NONE.

Depending on how the rules are assigned to the order, these actions must be performed so that the flow of the order processing can continue: