Understanding Tare and Pack Information
After creating the shipment and picking the items for the shipment, you can record the packing information and confirm the intermediate packs or pallets.
When you perform shipment confirmation, the system verifies tare and pack information. For each shipment, you can enter the information about the way products and orders are packed. When you enter tare information, you are recording information about the pallets and large product collections that you are shipping. When you enter pack information, you are recording the intermediate packs. For example, you can record the information for a pallet that contains two different models of microwaves that are packed two to a carton. The system retrieves the universal product code (UPC) for each microwave and the shipping container code (SCC) for the prepackaged carton of microwaves in the item master information. To record tare and pack information, enter the type of pallet onto which the microwaves were loaded.
If you enter an aggregate SCC, the system displays two asterisks (**) to indicate the associated UPCs. To review the UPCs, you can access the Item Cross Reference program (P4104) from the UCC-128 Revisions form.
You must set the Pack Confirmation and the Pack Confirmation Version processing options in the Shipment Confirmation program (P4205) to indicate whether to enter tare and pack detail information. Setting these processing options also specifies whether the system confirms the pack when you confirm the order detail line.