Using the Open Order Shipping/Billing Conversation

The Open Order Shipping/Billing conversation allows you to simultaneously ship and bill single order shipments.  Only shipments that have a status of O (open) or R (released) can be processed using this conversation.  When you complete the conversation, inventory balances are updated and invoices are generated if the Consolidated Invoice flag is set to N.

Processing Options

You identify the order shipment to be processed using the Open Order Shipping/Billing Prompt screen.  You can then enter information for each shipment pick line on the Open Order Shipping/Billing Multi-line screen.  To ship and bill each line, the Shipping Quantity and Unit of Measure must be entered.  You can also add a line to the shipment using the maintenance line function.

Detailed line information, including pricing, can be changed on the Line Detail screen.  This information is only enterable if the Shipping Quantity has been entered on the Multi-line screen.

You can access bill of lading header information from the Open Order Shipping/Billing Header and Recap screens by pressing the F8-Select BOL command key.  A bill of lading can be created immediately upon completion of the conversation or during End-of-day processing by setting the BOL Release Flag on the Header screen.

You end the shipping/billing transaction from the Recap screen by pressing F20-Ship Complete or F22-End Transaction.

Note:    When you use the Open Order Shipping/Billing conversation, shipping labels, packing labels, and picking lists must be created using the Shipping Document Report Request Entry conversation.  You cannot consolidate bills of lading, submit picker request, edit bills of lading, or defer billing using this conversation.