Defining Shipment Schedules
You can support customer-requested shipment schedules by splitting an order line into separate shipments and assigning different schedule characteristics to each separate shipment of an order line. For example, a customer may order a large quantity of an item to take advantage of price breaks. Your customer would like the shipments to be spread out over several months. You can enter one order line for the full quantity, and divide the order line into several shipment schedule lines to be scheduled for different dates.
You can specify a ship-to location and/or pricing information for the shipment schedule line that is different from the information you entered for the order or order line. If you change the ship-to location or any of the pricing information for the shipment schedule line, Order Entry/Shipping will automatically update the total price of the shipment schedule line.
If you are entering several shipment schedules for the same configuration, you should enter the configuration options for the order line before splitting the order line into several shipment schedules so that you only need to enter the options once.
To split an order line into separate shipments:
1. Select the order line you want to separate into multiple shipments in the Sales Orders window.
2. Select Shipment Schedules from the Special menu.
The Shipment Schedules window appears.
3. Define the number of shipments you want to create and the quantity to be shipped in each shipment.
To define scheduling information for a shipment schedule:
1. Navigate to the Scheduling alternative region.
2. Define the quantity you want to reserve for each separate shipment.
You can enter partial reservations.
3. Select the Warehouse, and define the Requested Date, Promised Date, and Scheduled Date for each shipment.
4. Select a Schedule Action.
After you save your work, the Status field will display the shipment's new schedule status.
To define pricing information for a shipment schedule:
1. Navigate to the Pricing alternative region.
2. Select pricing attributes for the shipment order line according to how you set up your Pricing Attributes descriptive flexfield.
3. Define the Tax Code for the order line.
4. Modify the default Selling Price.
You can only change the Selling Price if the OE: Discounting Privilege profile option is set to Yes. To change the selling price, select the Selling Price field and choose the Discounts button.
5. Select the appropriate Commitment number if you want to apply this shipment order line to a commitment. See: Entering Commitments.
To define shipping information for a shipment schedule:
1. Navigate to the Shipping alternative region.
3. Select the Shipment Priority for the order line.
Shipment priority allows you to group shipments into different categories of urgency, and can be used as a parameter for Pick Release. You can define additional shipment priorities in the Order Entry QuickCodes window. See: Defining Order Entry/Shipping QuickCodes.
4. Select the Freight carrier.
Freight Carrier can be used as a parameter for Pick Release.
To define project information for a shipment schedule:
1. Navigate to the Project alternative region.
2. Select a Project Number.
3. If you chose a Project Number, select a Task Number.
To modify or define release management line information for an shipment schedule:
1. Navigate to the Release Management alternative region.
Attention: You must have Oracle Release Management installed to access this region.
2. Enter the Customer Job number.
3. Enter the Customer Production Line.
4. Enter the option's Customer Model Serial Number.
5. Enter the Customer Dock to which the item will be delivered.
6. Select an Intermediate Ship To Location from the list of values.
7. Enter the Production Sequence Number.
8. Navigate to the Industry Information descriptive flexfield.
