The shipment is a document containing all the necessary delivery information, must accompany products throughout the delivery process and at the same time, certifies unloading the products from their source warehouse.
The shipment is made up of two parts: master and details. The master contains information used to identify the document: Document No., Date, Customer, Organization, Warehouse etc. The details contain the list of delivered products. For every product, the shipment will contain information such as quantity and source warehouse location.
A shipment can be obtained:
manually:
using the New Record button in the Shipment window. Details in Entering Shipments;
using the Generate Shipment and Invoice, Generate Shipment per MOC or Generate Shipments windows (forms), based on sales orders. Details in Shipment Management;
automatically:
when processing the order, depending on the order type used. Details in Order Types
using the Generate Shipments process. Details in Shipment Management;
Processing a shipment automatically adjusts warehouse stock.
The shipment must have a sales order associated, otherwise it cannot be entered in the system!