Shipping

Manage the Shipping process in the Warehouse Management System

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Shipping - need to know

The Shipping tab displays a list of all Shipments with a minimum status of Ready to Pack.

The Shipping Tab enables a user to:

  • Track and Find Shipments

  • Filter and sort Shipments

  • Merge Shipments with the same shipping address

  • Confirm (change status) Shipments are ready to Ship or Shipped

  • Print Picking and Packing documents

  • Pack and unpack Line Items by Shipment

  • Organize packing configuration

  • Edit Shipment parameters, i.e. Vendor/Method, Weights, Cost, Pallets.

  • Get and compare rates from small parcel vendors i.e. UPS (requires shipping vendor intergration solution i.e. EasyPost*)

  • Select and buy Shipping vendor products (requires shipping vendor intergration solution i.e. EasyPost*)

  • Print Shipping Vendor Labels (requires shipping vendor intergration solution i.e. EasyPost*)

*EasyPost is integrated with the WMS via a Plugin. EasyPost provides a single transactional pathway between Salesorder and small parcel shipping vendors e.g. UPS etc. See EasyPost.

Shipments pane

Display a list of Shipments with a status of ready to pack or ready to ship.

ActionNotes

>List Shipments

In conjunction with the above Filter and Sort.

>Merge

Merge selected (check box) Shipments with the same address.

>Remove from Merge

Remove selected (highlighted) Shipment from the commensurate merge.

>Confirm Ready to Ship

Set selected (check box) Shipment status to ‘Ready to Ship’.

>Ship

Set selected (check box) Shipment status to ‘Shipped’. The corresponding Shipment will no longer appear. Go to Shipments in the main app to find and view.

>Print Pick List

Print selected (check box) Shipment(s)’ Pick list(s). The Pick List can be configured:

Setup>Configuration>Sales>Pick List

>Print Packing Slips

Print selected (check box) Shipment(s)’ Packing list(s). The Packing List (Delivery Note) can be configured:

Setup>Configuration>Sales>Customer Delivery Note.

>Print Ship Labels

Print selected (check box) Shipment(s)’ Shipping Labels(s). Shipping Label details are generated by ‘Buy Shipment’ Action in the ‘Options’ pane’.

>Find

Shipment by Ref#, Status, Customer, Shipping Address.

>Edit (in row)

Displays Shipment modal (popup box). Change Shipping parameters, add/edit Shipping values e.g. weight.

Filter and sort Shipments

Set column visibility and sort order of column values.

You can prioritize the order of results by column and alphabetical sequence. In the example above the sort order is shipping priority by earliest ship date.

A to Z = ascending, Z to A = Descending

Merge Shipments

Using the Merge action, you can merge selected shipments with the same shipping address on the Shipping tab. Click image to enlarge.

Highlight a merged shipment and click the 'Remove from merge' action to unmerge or remove a shipment from the merge.

Packing pane - Box View

When the user highlights a Shipment, the Box view displays a list of boxes and their respective packed Items. Any Items that are not packed are displayed in a list of unpacked items. Click image to enlarge.

Packing pane - Item view

When the user highlights a Shipment, the Item view displays a list of items and how they are packed in their respective boxes. Click image to enlarge.

>Add Box

Display Pack/Unpack Items modal (pop up window) (see below).

>Edit Box

Display Pack/Unpack Items modal (pop up window) (see below).

>Delete Box

Deletes and unpacks the corresponding Box and returns the Shipment to the Picked status.

Pack/Unpack workflows

To view the workflow, click on the three vertical dots to enlarge.

Pack/Unpack workflows

Shipping Options pane

Manages the dialogue between shipping integration e.g.

WMS <-> EasyPost <-> Shipping Vendors.

Options pane

Gets Ship Via (Courier), and

Rate Details

Reaches out to all Couriers configured in Easypost (See EasyPost)

Get Rates

Reaches out to all Couriers configured in Easypost (See EasyPost) and returns costs per courier, per shipping method.

Buy Shipment

Reaches out to selected (displayed Courier), Purchases specified Shipment, and returns tracking label for >Print Shipping Label Action.

Ship via

Manually select from available Shipping Carriers:

Setup>Configuration>General>Shipping Carriers

OR

Passed from Shipment

Shipping method

Manually select from available Shipping Carriers:

Setup>Configuration>General>Shipping Carriers

OR

Passed from Shipment.

Delivery Date

Estimated from method selection.

Ship date

Date status set to ‘Shipped’.

Add Insurance

Value entered passed to Courier.

Declared value per box

Value entered passed to Courier.

Declared value total

Derived from Shipment value not including Taxes.

Additional Options

Values entered passed to Courier.

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