Managing Containers and Shippers

QAD 2017 Enterprise Edition > User Guides > Sales > Sales Orders/Invoices > Managing Containers and Shippers

Programs in the Containerization Menu (7.7) and Shipment Processing Menu (7.9) enable you to record, confirm, and delete/archive container and shipper information, and include support for discrete sales orders.

• Use SO Container Maintenance (7.7.5) to record information on racks, boxes, crates, bags, or other conveyances used to package and transport items or other containers. As with scheduled orders, containers must be defined in Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1) before they can be used in SO Container Maintenance.

Note: If you are using Container and Line Charges, items must also be defined as container items before they can be specified.

• Use Sales Order Shipper Maintenance (7.9.8) to record item numbers, quantities, and sales orders being shipped. This function does not update inventory balances or create GL transactions.

• Use Pre-Shipper/Shipper Confirm (7.9.5) to record an individual shipment to a customer and mark it for invoicing, or to automatically post the invoice. To select and confirm multiple shippers at the same time, use Pre-Shipper/Shipper Auto Confirm (7.9.7). Confirming a shipper decreases inventory and updates the general ledger.

See Shipping for details on shipment processing.

Use Shipper Delete/Archive (7.9.23) to permanently remove shipper records from the system to preserve database space.

SO Container Maintenance does not support all of the features that may be needed to meet international shipping requirements such as inventory movement codes. If your business needs these features, use Container Workbench (7.7.1), Picklist/Pre-Shipper—Automatic (7.9.1), and Pre-Shipper/Shipper Workbench (7.9.2).

Shipping programs are described in .