The Status Tracking for Shipments functionality provides the ability to track shipments by showing each step of the shipping process from shipper to invoice. This functionality also provides the ability to record in the system the actual quantity received by a customer and the date of receipt. This is referred to as Proof of Delivery (POD). The status and the date of the activities in the shipment process are visible in the Shipper Detail Status Browse and Shipper Detail Status Report.

The new status tracking and POD functionality only applies to shipments made using pre-shippers and shippers and does not currently include Service and Support transactions.

The Customer Management module now supports the Advanced Self Billing functionality. For a self-billing order, the customer can initiate the invoicing process. As the supplier, you can decide whether self-invoicing is allowed for a customer and the associated sales orders. Upon receiving self-bills from customers, you can record them using Self-Bill Invoice Maintenance. You process the self-billing invoices using Self-Bill Invoice Post instead of the Invoice Post and Print function used for traditional customer invoices. After posting the self-billing invoices, you match them with the shippers in the system using Self-Bill Matching Execute or Self-Bill Matching Force/Reverse.

The enhancements for Legal Documents are:

A new selection criterion, Confirmed SO’s Only, has been added to the Sales Order Print function. Setting this option to Yes enables you to print only confirmed sales order lines efficiently.

New input criteria Ship-To Range and Site Range have been added to the functions listed in the following table. The new features meet the requirement for businesses to consolidate, print, and post invoices based on Ship-To or Site also.