One way you can use Consolidate and Ship is to build consolidations by doing Consolidation Picking. Consolidation Picking enables you to combine orders or some other type of transaction for packing and shipment later.

This makes its administration functions similar to Consolidation Packing. The difference is that Consolidation Packing packs the orders into shipments. Consolidation Picking does not pack any orders for shipment. It simply combines them for storage purposes or in preparation for packing later.

For example, some organizations deal with hazardous goods. Different laws restrict what goods can be shipped together. Therefore, the organization might decide to stage goods at a consolidation point before packing to help ensure that no more hazardous material can go onto a shipment than is legally allowed.

As with Consolidation Packing, you can restrict the orders that a user can consolidate by choosing transaction attributes that must be the same. Criteria might include:

Consolidate and Ship allows you to choose if you want to create shipments from orders at picking stage or later during packing. You have the same freedom of choice to decide when to capture barcode information or serial numbers.

You can jump from the Consolidate and Ship screen to the Scan, Pack and Ship screen by setting up the system value EXTRA_EXIT _LINKS_CONFIG as follows:

You can set this system value to link to any Consolidation Packing option. For more information, see Consolidation Picking.