| # Shipment and load statuses Shipments, shipment lines, and loads can have the following statuses: Open You can: Adjust the quantities on shipment lines. Add or remove shipment lines from shipments Add or remove shipments from Shipping container status or loads Move shipments to other shipping containers or loads Add shipping containers to a load You cannot print shipment documents and you cannot ship the shipment. Frozen The picked goods are at the staging area of the warehouse and are ready for shipment. You can print shipment documents and ship the shipment. You can generate handling units. You cannot change the loads, shipping containers, shipments, and shipment lines, except for the following fields: Carrier PRO Number (shipment) Tracking Number (shipment) Inventory Adjustment Date (shipment line) If other changes are required, you must reopen the shipment lines first. For more information, refer to Reopen. Confirmed The goods have been shipped and are actually leaving the warehouse. LN performs financial and inventory transactions for the shipped items. You can print shipment documents for the goods. Note Loads present in the Planned Loads/Shipments (whinh4180m000) session have different statuses. For more information, refer to Possible values and Shipments and loads. Shipment procedure In the Freeze/Confirm Shipments/Loads (whinh4275m000) session, you can both freeze and confirm shipment lines, shipments, and loads. If the Freeze Shipments/Loads activity is performed automatically in the shipment procedure, shipments and loads are automatically confirmed. In that case, you cannot freeze shipment lines, shipments, or loads. Note If the shipment documents must be printed automatically, printing is started as soon as the status of the shipment or load changes from Open to Frozen or Confirmed. How the status is determined The shipment's status is determined as follows: If at least one of the shipment lines has the status Open, the shipment's status is Open. If at least one of the shipment lines has the status Frozen and none of the shipment lines has status Open, the shipment's status is Frozen. If all shipment lines have the status Confirmed, the shipment's status is Confirmed. If a shipment line is reopened, the shipment's status also changes to Open. The load's status is by default determined as follows: If at least one of the shipments linked to the load has the status Open, the load's status is Open. If at least one of the shipments linked to the load has the status Frozen and none of the shipment lines has status Open, the load's status is Frozen. If all shipments linked to the load have the status Confirmed, the load's status is Confirmed. If a shipment line of a shipment that is linked to the load is reopened, the load's status also changes to Open. Shipping container status If in the Inventory Handling Parameters (whinh0100m000) session the Shipping Containers in use check box is selected, you can use shipping containers. The status of a shipping container is: Open If the container is empty or at least one shipment in the container has status Open. Frozen If all shipments of the container have status Frozen. Confirmed If all shipments of the container have status Confirmed. For more information, refer to Overview of kit handling in Warehouse Management. Freeze
To freeze... | Use the Freeze command in...
Shipment lines | The Shipment Lines (whinh4131m000) session
Shipments | The Shipments (whinh4130m000) session
Loads | The Loads (whinh4140m000) session
To freeze a range of shipment lines, shipments, or loads, use the Freeze/Confirm Shipments/Loads (whinh4275m000) session. Note You can only freeze shipment lines, shipments, and loads if the status is Open. Reopen If changes are required for any frozen shipment lines, shipments, or loads, you must reopen these shipment lines, shipments, or loads to be able to make these changes. You can only reopen shipment lines that have the Frozen status. To reopen shipment lines, use the Reopen command on the appropriate menu of the Shipment Lines (whinh4131m000) session. When you reopen a shipment line, the related shipment and load are also reopened. The shipment documents must be printed again, after the final changes to the shipments have been made. The status of the handling units of the shipment and shipment line are changed from Shipment Frozen to Shipment Open. If you again freeze a shipment line or shipment and a handling unit already exists for the shipment or shipment line, the handling unit is regenerated automatically. |