Running the Bills of Lading Report

Run the Bills of Lading Report to create a list of items being shipped. A bill of lading, or waybill, lists the items being shipped and the terms of delivery. It serves as an acknowledgment, or a receipt of goods accepted for transportation by a carrier or shipper.

Unlike a shipping manifest, the bill of lading does not include lines for a signature and date for each order shipment. It does, however, list the individual products and the hazard class information, which the shipping manifest does not contain.

For a description of the report, see What the Report Shows at the end of the topic.

To run the Bills of Lading Report:

From the Orders > Reports > Delivery Reports menu, select Bills of Lading to display the Bills of Lading window.
In the Branch/Territory field, enter or select the branches and territories you want to include in the report. Enter All to include all branches and territories in the report.

In the Start Date field, enter the starting date of the calendar date range you want to include in the report.
In the End Date field, enter the last date of the calendar date range you want to include in the report.

For example, if you want to create a report for December 2003, enter 12/01/03 in the Start Date field and 12/31/03 in the End Date field.

In the Customer field, enter or select a customer name to limit the report to include only shipments made to that customer.

Leave the Customer field blank to include shipments to all customers.

In the Ship Via field, enter or select a shipping method to limit the report to show only shipments made using that method.

Leave the Ship Via field blank to include all shipping methods.

Set options, if needed, and generate the report.

What the Report Shows

The Bills of Lading Report shows the following information:

Field/Column	Description
Ship to	Recipient's name and address.
Ship Via	Ship via being used.
Ship Date	Shipping Date
Phone	Recipient's phone number.
# Pcs	Number of pieces for each line item on the bill of lading.
Hazard Class Description	Hazard class description for line item, if any.
Class	Hazard class for line item, if any.
ID Number	Hazard ID for line item, if any.
Description	Product description for line item.
Weight Ext	Extended weight of line item.
Grand Totals	Totals for bill of lading.