Shipments
A shipment comprises a set of shipment lines, grouped by certain common shipping attributes, that are scheduled to be shipped to a customer's ship-to location on a specific date and time.
You can include items from different sales orders in a shipment. You can either manually or automatically group shipment lines to create a shipment. The shipment lines are grouped by the mandatory default criteria: ship-from location and ship-to location. However, you may also include additional grouping criteria, such as customer, freight terms, FOB (Free on board), and shipping method. A shipment can have the following three statuses:
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Open
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Confirmed
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Closed
Open Shipments
A shipment is open until it is confirmed.
Confirmed Shipments
A shipment is marked confirmed when it is ship confirmed, which means that all the lines in the shipment are loaded for shipping to the customer's ship-to location.
Closed Shipments
A shipment can be marked closed after it is confirmed. A closed shipment is the final stage the shipping process. A closed shipment indicates that the inventory and the order have been updated to reflect the shipping of items from the warehouse.
E-Signatures for Approval
If shipping transactions are configured for approval using e-signatures, the E-Signature page opens when you click Ship Confirm and close a shipment line. Use the page to approve the transaction.
The Electronic Signature IDs are recorded and available from the Manage Shipments and Edit Shipments pages.
For information about e-signatures, see the Oracle SCM Using E-Signatures and E-Records guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.
For information about how to configure e-signatures for supply chain management transactions, see the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide on the Oracle Help Center.