To place a shipment on hold:When you enter a lot item on a direct ship order, the system may place the order on hold, depending on your system setup parameters. As soon as you are ready to ship the items, you then release the order from hold. If needed, you can return the order to hold status at any time.
The system alerts you to the hold status of the lot item on the Sales Order Entry Status screen by attaching either HOLD or REL to the end of the shipment status, for example, Direct-HOLD.
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From the Orders menu, select Sales Order Entry to display the Sales Order Entry screen.
Open a sales order that includes a lot item.
Select the lot item and use the NonStk/Lot hot key to display the Lot Item Status screen.
Use the Material Detail hot key to display the Lot Item Material Detail screen.
Use the Hold on Vendor Ship hot key to:
Display a message indicating that the order is on hold.
Change the hot key name to Release Vendor Ship.
Placing an order generation on hold does not prevent the vendor from shipping the material to the customer unless your forms have been modified to use the following feature: The system prints **HOLD** in the Required Date field of the direct shipment's purchase order. If you do not have this feature, contact the system support group regarding the cost for this custom forms modification.
From the Orders menu, select Sales Order Entry to display the Sales Order Entry screen.
Open a sales order that includes a lot item.
Select the lot item and use the NonStk/Lot hot key to display the Lot Item Status screen.
Use the Material Detail hot key to display the Lot Item Material Detail screen.
Use the Release Vendor Ship hot key to release the order for shipment.
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