Short Ship Example
In this example, it is assumed that you want to pack a shipment in Standard Packing mode. An automotive industry customer has ordered 500 steering springs and 1000 steering arms. A shipment has been created for the items. However, only 800 steering arms are available. To ensure on-time delivery of as many components as possible, you want to remove the 200 steering arms that are currently not available. To do this, perform the following steps:
1 On the Scan, Pack and Ship screen, load the shipment. The items for packing are displayed in the items to be packed panel.
2 You can pack the items that are available. When you have done this, click the Consolidating link.
3 The shipment is not currently configured as a consolidation shipment. You may be prompted if you want to enable the shipment for consolidation picking. Click Yes.
4 The items belonging to the shipment are displayed on the Items tab. To remove unpacked items from the shipment, you can:
• Drag and drop the unavailable steering arms into the Items to be Picked panel.
• Select an order line containing some or all the steering arms and click the Delete button.
Note: You can only remove unpacked items from the consolidation.
5 The Items to be Picked panel shows the 200 steering arms awaiting assignment to another shipment. The Available column shows the total number of items in the order line. The Picked column shows the items that have been assigned to a shipment or shipments.
6 Click the Packing link on the top right of the page to return to the Scan, Pack and Ship page.
7 You can check that the removed items are now available for consolidation onto a new shipment. In Consolidate and Ship, type the order number of the removed steering arms and press enter. Alternatively, click the lookup button and browse for the order. The 200 steering arms are displayed as available for consolidation.
Note: These steps use a keyboard and mouse for capturing the picking information. You can also capture the information using a barcode scanner.