You use Consolidation Packing mode when your organization creates consolidation shipments as orders are packed. In this scenario, the orders arriving for packing are not already part of a shipment, but as you pack the orders, you add them to a new or existing shipment.

On the Scan, Pack and Ship screen, unpacked order lines are displayed as available for packing. As you record packing information for an order, the items are packed and new consolidation shipments are generated. You can pack multiple orders into a single shipment or multiple orders into multiple shipments. When you consolidate multiple orders into a single consolidation shipment, you can configure packing restriction criteria to restrict the orders that may be mixed.