Printing Ship Tickets in Batches

Batch print shipping tickets to print ship tickets in batch processes. You can select the ship tickets to print using the branch, ship via, and order shipping date.

After making your selections, the system lists the corresponding ship dates and quantities of tickets to print, sorted by the ship date. You can then select which tickets to print.

To print ship tickets for orders that contain open serial numbers, you must be assigned the SERIAL.OVRDauthorization key to complete the printing process.

Use the Footer Message For Pick Tickets And Ship Ticketscontrol maintenance record to define the footer message to include on ship tickets.

Note: If you entered !NOBO as the first line in the shipping instructions of a sales order, the shipping instructions for the backordered items on the order are not included on the shipping ticket.

Use the Print Ship Ticket Instead of Pick Ticketcontrol maintenance record to print acknowledgements for return goods using the phantom processor. Set this control maintenance record to yes if your company uses ship tickets in lieu of pick tickets.

To batch print ship tickets:

From the Orders > Printing menu, select Batch Print Shipping Tickets to display the Batch Print Shipping Tickets screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

In the Br/Tr field, enter the branch or territory for which you want to print ship tickets. Enter All to print tickets for all branches and all territories.

In the ShipVia field, press F10 and select a shipping method to print tickets for only orders that use that method.

Leave the ShipVia field blank to print tickets for all shipping methods.

In the ShipDate field, enter today's date, or a date in the future for which you want to print ship tickets.

Note:TheShipDatefield does not allow variable dating.

In the Update Print Review Log (Y/ field, enter Y to update the Print Review Log after printing the tickets.

The system lists the following information:

Column	Description
Ship Date	The shipping date and day of the week. The Prior row indicates unprinted tickets before the current date, and theFuturerow indicates tickets beyond the current week.
# to Print	The quantity of tickets for the corresponding ship date.

Enter an asterisk (*) in the Sel column next to the shipping date for the tickets you want to print.

Press the space bar to enter or clear the asterisk.

Use the following hot keys before completing the print process:

To...	Use this hot key...
display a list of available printer locations	Location
review orders before printing ship tickets	Preview
enter additional selection criteria	Slct

Use the Print hot key and confirm that you do want to print the tickets.

How the System Determines Printer Location for Ship Tickets

When you print ship tickets, the system determines the printer location using the following hierarchy:

What the System Checks	Where Identified
1. The printer location override defined for the ship via within a branch.	PickTicketPtrLoc field in Ship Via Branch Overrides/Auto Scheduling. For more information, see Assigning Ship Vias to Branches.
2. The printer location assigned to the shipping branch.	Ship Ticket Branch field in Printer Location Maintenance. For more information, see Defining Printer Locations.
3. The user's currently assigned location.	Local Printer field in Local Printer Assignment. For more information, see Assigning Local Printers to Terminals.