Consolidation Example
You have two orders for shipment to the same wholesale customer. The customer ordered 1000 laptops last Thursday. On Friday, this customer ordered 5000 MP3 players. You want to consolidate these orders onto one shipment to improve delivery time.
1 Open Consolidate and Ship.
2 In the Order field, type the reference numbers for the orders you want to consolidate, loading them one at a time. Click the lookup button or press Enter. The 1000 laptops and 5000 MP3 players to be picked are displayed in the Items to be Picked panel.
Note: If you have already packed items from one of the orders into a shipment, you must unpack them from that shipment before they are displayed here. The Order lookup only displays orders with unpacked order items, and only unpacked items are displayed.
3 You want to create a new shipment for the orders. Click the New Shipment button. The Items tab is now displayed.
4 You can now pick the 1000 laptops and 5000 MP3 players from the Items to be Picked panel. There are several ways of doing this.
• Double-click an order line to move it to the Items tab.
• Drag and drop the items into the Items tab.
• Select an order line containing some or all order items and click the Append to pick button.
• Click the Append all available items to pick button.
5 The laptops and MP3 players are now consolidated onto one shipment.
Note: These steps use a keyboard and mouse for capturing the picking information. You can also capture the information using a barcode scanner.