The Shipping Order Manager can be used to manage Shipping Orders in Order Management. The Shipping Order Manager dashboard contains the Shipping Order Summary with Shipping Orders in the various workflow states including: Allocated (Created), Waiting Authorization (optional), Waiting Approval (optional), Waiting Assignment (optional), Waiting Pick/Pack (optional), Waiting Fulfillment, Waiting Filing (optional), Closed. In addition you can create a new Shipping Order by selecting one or more Sales Orders in Waiting Allocation state and clicking the Create Shipping Order button. See Creating Shipping Orders in the Administration Module.
You might want to search for Shipping Orders on a daily, weekly, or as-needed basis to monitor and manage the status of one or more Shipping Orders. See Searching for Sales Orders, Shipping Orders, and Payments. For example, you might want to search for:
To access the Shipping Manager, select Shipping Manager from the Fulfillment accordion menu. The Shipping Manager page appears. From here you can create and manage Shipping Orders.
The following table describes the components of the Shipping Manager dashboard:
Fields and Buttons | Description | |
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Shipping Order Summary section | Shows the Shipping Order Queues, which show the number of Shipping Orders in the workflow states including: Waiting Authorization, Waiting Approval, Waiting Assignment, Waiting Pick/Pack, Waiting Shipment, and Waiting Filing. | |
[view] link | Shows the full list of search results of Shipping Order records in the selected workflow state. See Shipping Order Search Results for details on the various actions that can be performed on this page. | |
New Shipping Order link | A ListView of Orders in Waiting Allocation state appears. From here you can select one or more Orders, and click the Create Shipping Order button. The new Shipping Order(s) are created. You can view the Shipping Order(s) in the Shipping Order Search Results. |