1. Transportation Management Implementation Guide
  2. Shipment Confirmation

Shipment Confirmation

When you confirm shipments, the system records the actual quantities of the products being shipped. For standards loads, load confirmation triggers shipment confirmation, at which point each shipment on the load can be confirmed. Compartmentalized loads are confirmed by compartment/item and behind the scenes the corresponding shipments are confirmed. When you confirm a shipment, the system updates the status of the shipment to the next status and confirms that you are shipping individual sales orders that are assigned to that shipment.

You can specify whether the system verifies that cartons have been through carton reconciliation, which ensures that shipment and carton details contain identical quantities before shipment confirmation. Because the system confirms order lines during shipment confirmation, the system compares the quantity on the sales order line with the total quantity for cartons that contain that sales order line. You control this processing by setting the Carton Next Status processing option on the Process tab in the processing options for Transportation Shipment Confirmation (P49645) accordingly. The system verifies the carton status for all cartons on the shipment against this status. If all of the cartons do not match this status, the system issues an error before allowing you to advance all the cartons on the shipment.

The system uses these tables when processing cartons:

  • Sales Order Detail File (F4211)

  • Carton Detail Information (F4620)

The system enables you to confirm shipments interactively or by batch.

For inbound shipments, the system enters shipment information for each purchase order that is created. The system enables you to interactively confirm a shipment with the actual mode of transport and carrier. You use a processing option to specify whether the system performs Freight Update and Report (R4981) as part of the shipment confirmation process. During shipment confirmation, you can specify a version of PO Receipts (P4312).

The system validates the actual ship date and issues a warning or error when the date entered is not within the current fiscal period. (Release 9.2 Update)

When you confirm shipment and you modify the branch/plant or ship to entities, the system checks the alternate tax rate/area assignment company constant setup for the company. If the functionality is enabled, the system retrieves the alternate tax rate/area based on the branch plant and ship-to country information if the branch/plant or ship-to value is modified. Otherwise, the system retrieves the tax rate/area from the default carrier setup.

See "Setting Up Alternate Tax Rate/Area Assignment Functionality" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Tax Processing Implementation Guide and "Alternate Tax Rate/Area Assignment Functionality in the Shipment Confirmation Process" in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Sales Order Management Implementation Guide.