Product: Shipping Module

Article Link: http://help.truecommerce.com/en/articles/6887197-shipping-module-single-po-sdq-multitracking

Whenever you're having your Shipping Module configured - based on the various needs of your Trading Partners you may find you have multiple options to select from whenever performing a Ship Export or a Ship Import.

The Standard Shipping Module option is what most Trading Partners require - this is intended to be used for a standard Single Purchase Order style Advance Ship Notice (856). The Advance Ship Notices you are updating reference only a single Purchase Order, and there is no item level tracking numbers required.

The SDQ setup is designed for Advance Ship Notices that feature the same exact Purchase Order # as another but are orders for different Stores or Distribution Centers. These are configured to require a Store/DC number to be present on the file so that it can match up against the proper Advance Ship Notice within Transaction Manager upon Ship Import to update.

A Multitracking configuration is designed to import for a Trading Partner that requires Item Level Tracking #s - this configuration requires a unique matching Pack/Item ID (such as a UCC-128) to be generated prior to performing the Ship Export that can be sent to your shipping software so that it can be returned with that same ID which Transaction Manager can then match up against your items and apply the proper Tracking # to the proper Pack/Item

If you're in need of Item Level Tracking #s you'll need some way of identifying the proper Pack row whenever the Ship Import process is performed in order for the system to know which Packs, get which Tracking #s.

Note: This applies for SOI formats as well - where you need to provide Tracking #s for the Item rather than the pack.

While you can use the Item Code within a Transaction to identify it at an item level, this will only work if your Item Code is always packed into a single carton/pack. Having that item distributed among multiple cartons/packs will prevent the Tracking # from populating across multiple instances of the same Item Code, as the system will only find the first and ignore the rest.

rev 1/12/2023