Use the Shipping Manifest Queue to track all orders being shipped out of your warehouse on a specific ship via, such as a company truck or commercial carrier, from a specific branch. Shipping manifests include information about delivery times, ship-to addresses, order numbers, and totals information. The Shipping Manifest also has different views to display additional information, such as shipping packages, expected and actual delivery times, order dates, monetary amounts, and weight and load factors.
If your warehouse is an RF environment, see Using Shipping Manifests with RF.
For information about carton packing manifest statuses, see Reviewing Carton Packing Manifests in the Carton Packing documentation.
Use the Shipping Manifest Queue to track deliveries as follows:
Add orders automatically through the system or manually to a shipping manifest.
Note: When you add an order to a shipping manifest, the system logs the costs associated with the Activity Based Cost delivery cost in the ABC log.
Print the Shipping Manifest Report and give it to the driver making the deliveries.
Drivers take the pick ticket, the ship ticket, and the manifest with them to note any problems with the deliveries. The driver makes the deliveries listed on the report and returns to the warehouse, perhaps with undelivered orders.
Review the Shipping Manifest Report to verify deliveries and, if necessary, to move undelivered orders to a new manifest for later delivery.
Close the manifest.
In addition, use the following reports to help manage shipping manifests:
Shipping Manifest Report- Use to run a report about shipments from multiple branches.
Bills of Lading Report- Use to create a list of items being shipped.
HAZMAT Truck Manifest Report- Use to produce a hazardous materials manifest.
To create a shipping manifest, do either of the following:
Configure your system to auto schedule sales orders on a manifest by ship via, date, branch, and customer.
Manually enter each transaction ticket on a manifest.
After a manifest is created, you can add tickets to it or remove tickets from it, as well as lock a manifest so that no more orders are added to it before delivery. Lock a manifest if a truck is full, or ready to leave for delivery, to ensure that all the orders on the manifest are on the truck.
If you have authorization, you can also edit closed orders for instances where a delivery was recorded incorrectly. For example, if some orders on a manifest were not delivered, yet the manifest is closed and indicates that all the orders were delivered, reopen the closed manifest and remove the undelivered orders from it.
You can delete stops or reschedule stops, if needed. The system uses the stop number and the customer information to match the manifest. A message displays to alert the user that the stop has changed.
Use the Open Order Delivery Queue to help you schedule deliveries if your warehouse does not use set delivery routes.
See Also:
Planning Deliveries Based on Open Orders