Order Shipping Overview

Once inventory has been assigned to order items, shipments are created to box and ship those order items to the customer. Shipments can be created automatically using Order Life Cycle Automation or manually. The taxonomy of Orders, shipments and boxes is displayed below. An order can have multiple shipments, a shipment has one or more boxes and each box contains the inventory requirements associated with the an order's order items.

Order Shipments Taxonomy

Order Shipping screen

Order Shipments are managed from the Order Shipping screen. If Order Life Cycle Automation is used, Order Shipment information can be viewed or edited on this screen. In addition, Order Shipments can also be created manually from this screen.

Path: Orders > Order Manager > Shipping

The Order Shipping screen is used to create/view/edit Order Shipments and related data. It is divided up into four sections:

Ship To (there is a record for each ship to address if using multiple ship-to)
- Shipment Information
  - Customer 'Ship To' Contact information
- Ship to Custom Fields
  - Order Shipping custom fields
- Shipment Method
- Shipping Price
- Delayed Delivery Date
- Estimated Shipping Date
- Estimated Delivery Date
- Use Volume Packing - Volume Packing Method packs all SKUs and the Volume Packing Method Threshold in the largest box possible subject to the weight limits of the boxes available.
- Fulfillment Warehouse
- Ordered Items
  - Channel
  - Qty
  - Part Number
  - Contact Ship to Address for Order Item
  - Shipment Method
All Shipments
- Shipment Id
- Source - Warehouse the shipment is being shipped from.
- Method - Shipping Method
- Ship Date- Actual Date the Shipment was shipped.
- Cost - Shipment cost to the CORESense client.
- Status - The Shipment status status New,Picking,Packing,Shipped, Delivered and Cancelled.
Order Invoices
- Invoice Message - This is a message that appears at the bottom of the standard invoice document, explained in the next step.
- By default, the ddefault Invoice message is Thank you. Overwrite this with any message you want to include.
- Invoice Date - The invoice date. By default, today's date is automatically entered into the Invoice Date field.
- Purchase Order # - This is the customer's purchase order number.
- View - Displays the standard Order invoice for printing.

Order Shipping Operations

Following are the most common operations performed in Order Shipping: