The Feature enables you to bundle orders so orders for the same receiver will be bundled together on the same Warehouse Shipments.
The Feature lets you create rules for bundling per location and customer.
Setup
App is activated
- Make sure that the Abakion Shipping Manager is enabled.
Maintain Bundling Methods
Bundling Methods lets you setup rules for the bundling.
The Basic Bundling Method is a requirement so first you need to check if that one is created. The bundling functionality doesn’t work without the BASIC setup
- Go to Warehouse Shipment Bundling Setup
- Check that BASIC has been created – otherwise create it
Modify existing Method
- Find the Bundling Method you wants to edit and click Modify
Setup Bundling Methods per Location
- Search for Warehouse Shipment Bundling Setup
Shipment creation method filter refers to setup on customer and orders. Hereby you can setup a minimum amount for shipment – or none. If you don’t know which method, you will use – select ‘Amount and None’
Bundle Ship-to Code If merge shipment is accepted you can add order lines from several orders into one shipment, if ship-to method on order is ‘default customer’ or ship-to- codes on more orders are identical. Shipping agent and shipping agent service must also be identical on all orders that are bundled.
Shipment end Date Calculation (Warehouse requests) here you set up how many days from workdate you will use to filter relevant orders – if workdate is 1. October and setup is 5D system will look for orders with shipment date until 6 October in the warehouse request overview
Shipment end date calculation (line) This is same as above, however system looks for order lines in released orders that meet the date filter criteria.
Setup Bundling Methods on the Customer
On the customer card you can setup various information that will be inserted on sales orders when created.
Example: Minimum Shipment Amount LCY = 1000 and there is two order lines on the customer with a total line amount of 1.500. The 2 order lines will be sent to a warehouse shipment. If total outstanding line amount of the two order lines is 900 system will not create warehouse shipment lines.
Please note that it is the shipment creation method on the order that is used when calculating relevant order lines that can be sent to warehouse shipment.
1. Go to the Customer Card
Shipment Creation Method: here you can select None or Amount
- Amount = Minimum Shipment Amount (LCY) is used to calculate if your order lines in one or more orders fulfill the minimum ship amount.
- None = system only checks if order lines meet the date criteria
Merge Shipments: Please activate if you want to combine several sales orders into one warehouse shipment
When you create sales orders above settings are inherited on the sales order, and can be changed manually on the sales order.
Daily Use
Create a bundled warehouse shipment from the Sales Order
You can use the Create warehouse shipment (bundling) directly from the sales order. System automatically adds the sell-to customer No and the order no to the report.
Create a bundled warehouse shipment for all your orders
If you want to create shipments for all customers/orders, you simply search for ‘Create shipment (Bundling)'
Bundling setup code and date calculations is inserted automatically form the MAIN bundling setup code.
If you want the report to include all relevant Sales Orders, simply accept and run the report.
This report can also be setup in job queue.
Please notice that all old sales orders created in system before setting up the Bundling will have have the following setup in the bundling fields.
- Shipment Creation Method = None
- Merge Shipments = False/No