About Shipping

Overview

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• plan a load for shipment, see About Load Planning
• add material to the load that has a Shipment Status of “Ready”,
• print the shipment documents (automatically)
• pick and ship the load, relieving inventory of the material shipped. – See About Load Shipping

• maintain carriers and carrier freight rates,
• maintain customs brokers, and
• maintain customs duties.
• maintain default freight modes and weights

See Flags That Affect Shipping for details on how company settings affect shipping processing.

In addition, the default FOB point for customer pickups is set in the General Company Setup (STCOMP), General tab.

Documents to be produced on shipping are set up as part of company information in the customer profile.

About Shipping

The Shipping Management application includes the functions that are required for managing shipments:

• create a load for shipment,
• add material to the load that has a Shipment Status of “Ready”,
• print the shipment documents
• maintain carriers and carrier freight rates,
• maintain customs brokers, and
• maintain customs duties.
• ship the load, relieving inventory of the material shipped.

See Flags That Affect Shipping for details on how company settings affect shipping processing.

In addition, the default FOB point for customer. pickups is set in the General Company Setup (STCOMP), General tab.

Documents to be produced on shipping are set up as part of your company information.

Glossary Entries

Shipment Status

Shipment Status denotes that inventory material is ready to ship or not.  There are two values Not Ready and Ready.

Shipping Documents

Shipping Documents includes; Bill of Lading (BOL), Invoice, and Shipping Tags.

Bill Of Lading

The Bill Of Lading (BOL) document is issued by the shipping department and specifies the material that is being shipped on the load.

Invoice

The Invoice document is a bill issued by the seller to the buyer indicating the quantity of material provided to the buyer.

Shipping Tags

The Shipping Tags are barcoded tags attached to each piece of material shipped on a load.

Load

A Load is a single shipment on a single vehicle (truck, ship, rail car, etc).  Each load has one or more Bill Of Ladings.  A load can be created for any routing step that has a process code with a category of Transfer Instruction or Shipping Instruction.

Process Code

A Process defines the transformation of material that changes or adds properties to the material.  Process Codes define the capabilities of a company to transform material.  Each Process Code has a category of; Manufacturing Instruction, Packaging Instruction, Shipping Instruction, or Transfer Instruction.

Routing

The sequence of process codes (steps) required to produce a product.  This is in addition to the current glossary definition that is for BOM only.

The SEMS 4.5 version extends and enhances the Shipping Management capability by providing: