Shipment Pieces

A shipment piece can be a pallet, box, or some other shipping container. It can also be an item, such as a steel beam or a piece of equipment. You use the Shipment Revisions form in the Work With Shipments program (P4915) to define one or more pieces for a shipment and specify the weight and dimension information for each piece. You must specify piece information when the rating of a shipment is affected by the individual pieces or if a carrier or government agency requires piece information.

You also enter piece information when you must track pieces on a shipment, or if the customer requires piece information to complete the shipment.

The contents of shipping containers or pieces are defined in the Shipment Confirmation program (P4205). The system considers shipment weight as the sum of the total shipment pieces.

Note: For shipments that do not have piece information defined in the Shipment Pieces table (F4943), the system converts the quantity in the transaction unit of measure to the shipping unit of measure to estimate the piece count.

The system performs these calculations:

• Rounds down the transaction unit of measure to obtain the whole piece number.

• Adds the weight and volume of the leftover quantities from all detail lines and divides the total by the maximum piece weight, volume, or both.

• Rounds the resulting piece weight or volume up to the next whole number.

• Adds the result from the previous calculation to the whole piece number to obtain the piece count.