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Distribution

Warehouse Despatch Board​

The Warehouse Despatch Board allows you to plan outbound shipments. The page provides a consolidated view of outbound sales and transfer orders where you can determine your transport requirements. The page lets you filter and group orders by various criteria such as location, shipment date, shipping agent and route. The dashboard allows you to:

  • Select one or more orders and view the weight and volume totals.
  • Create one or more warehouse shipments based on your selected orders.
  • Update existing warehouse shipments to include additional orders. This is useful when you accept orders that must be shipped on the same day.

The page only allows you to create warehouse shipments based on inventory in your warehouse that has not already been picked. This helps you track the status of picking against the warehouse shipments, as they would only contain lines that can be picked.

Transfer Back Order Management​

It is possible to define back order rules that can be applied when shipping transfer orders.

Transfer Back Order Codes​

On this page, you configure the different back order rules you wish to apply, and you can specify the default rule to use. These are the same rules that can be used for sales. You can read more about this here..

Transfer Back Order Types​

TypeDescription
Short Delivery %Specifies outstanding quantity as a percentage of the original order. The line remains on back order if the percentage is greater than the tolerance specified.
Short Delivery QuantitySpecifies quantity shipped to determine if it is within tolerance. A common usage of this scenario is that you might ship partial quantities (e.g. 0.9 packs) and want to count this as shipping a full unit.

Location-Specific Rules​

You can override the default for a location by selecting a different Back Order Code.