Importing Shipping Data from External Systems
Some environments use external systems to manage and maintain detailed sequence information that includes sequence numbers. When you import that information, the system looks for the corresponding sequence to pick from the internal scheduled order. If the corresponding sequence is not found, it picks the next available sequence.
You can use two methods to import sequence information into
the system:
• Use Shipper Gateway (7.9.22) to import an ASCII-formatted file containing records that represent containers, pre-shippers, shippers, and sequence schedule lines. To support importing of sequence information, the format for the shipper gateway file includes fields for sequence information. See User Guide: QAD Sales.
• In an electronic document interchange (EDI) environment, use Document Import (35.1) in the EDI eCommerce module to import sequence schedules. See User Guide: QAD EDI eCommerce.