Specify Shipping Details for Sales Orders

Set Acceptable Dates

Set the values in the Latest Acceptable Date attribute and the Earliest Acceptable Date attribute to specify when the customer is willing to accept shipment.

If you don't set them, then Order Management will attempt to deliver the sales order no earlier than the Ordered Date, and no later than the Requested Date.

Attribute	Description
Latest Acceptable Date	Set the Latest Acceptable Date to happen anytime after the Requested Date. If you set it, then Order Management will attempt to deliver the sales order no later than the Requested Date.
Earliest Acceptable Date	Set the Earliest Acceptable Date to happen anytime before the Requested Date. If you set it, then Order Management won't deliver the sales order before the Requested Date. This feature is useful when your customer can't receive delivery until some point in the future. For example, the customer is traveling and won't be at the delivery site, or the delivery site is under construction. If you set the Request Type attribute to Arrive On, then you can't specify the Earliest Acceptable Date.

Attribute

Description

Latest Acceptable Date

Set the Latest Acceptable Date to happen anytime after the Requested Date. If you set it, then Order Management will attempt to deliver the sales order no later than the Requested Date.

Earliest Acceptable Date

Set the Earliest Acceptable Date to happen anytime before the Requested Date. If you set it, then Order Management won't deliver the sales order before the Requested Date.

This feature is useful when your customer can't receive delivery until some point in the future. For example, the customer is traveling and won't be at the delivery site, or the delivery site is under construction.

If you set the Request Type attribute to Arrive On, then you can't specify the Earliest Acceptable Date.

Allow Partial Shipment

If you set the Allow Partial Shipments of Lines option to Yes, then Order Management can ship one order line in more than one shipment, if necessary.

Consider a scenario.

You create a sales order that includes 100 units of a desktop computer on a single order line.
Order fulfillment considers only Supplier A and Supplier B.
Supplier A can fulfill 75 units and Supplier B can fulfill 50.

You set Allow Partial Shipments of Lines to a value.

Value	Description
Yes	Order Management will immediately fulfill the sales order. It might ship 60 units from Supplier A in one shipment, and 40 units from Supplier B in another shipment. These shipments might arrive at the customer site at different times, depending on how long it takes the supplier to assemble the order, variations in transit time, and so on. For example, the 60 units from Supplier A might arrive on October 1, and the 40 units from Supplier B might arrive on October 4.
No	Order Management will delay the shipment until Supplier A or Supplier B can fulfill 100 units, and then ship all units in a single shipment from the supplier who can fulfill the line.

Value

Description

Yes

Order Management will immediately fulfill the sales order. It might ship 60 units from Supplier A in one shipment, and 40 units from Supplier B in another shipment.

These shipments might arrive at the customer site at different times, depending on how long it takes the supplier to assemble the order, variations in transit time, and so on. For example, the 60 units from Supplier A might arrive on October 1, and the 40 units from Supplier B might arrive on October 4.

No

Order Management will delay the shipment until Supplier A or Supplier B can fulfill 100 units, and then ship all units in a single shipment from the supplier who can fulfill the line.

Ask your customer to determine whether receiving the sales order in a single shipment is most important and potentially delaying it, or whether the customer can receive the order in more than one shipment and potentially receive it on different days.

Shipping in more than one shipment might increase transit cost.

For technical details, see Update Attributes on Split Order Lines for Partial Shipments.

Set Other Attributes on the Shipping Tab

Attribute	Description
Shipment Priority	Prioritizes shipment for this sales order in relationship to other sales orders.
Shipping Instructions Packing Instructions	Order Management sends the text you enter in the Shipping Instructions attribute and the Packing Instructions attribute to other applications that reside downstream in order fulfillment, such as Oracle Shipping, or some other application that your order administrator specifies. These downstream applications can print the text on packing slips or other shipping documents.

Attribute

Description

Shipment Priority

Prioritizes shipment for this sales order in relationship to other sales orders.

Shipping Instructions

Packing Instructions

Order Management sends the text you enter in the Shipping Instructions attribute and the Packing Instructions attribute to other applications that reside downstream in order fulfillment, such as Oracle Shipping, or some other application that your order administrator specifies. These downstream applications can print the text on packing slips or other shipping documents.