You use the shipping and receiving processes to record incoming and outgoing part quantities. The Shipping and Receiving module contains programs that perform transactions such as shipments against a sales order, subcontract parts sent to a supplier, raw material received from a purchase order, received to a job, received into inventory, or inventory parts that fill a sales order from stock.

You can ship parts from a job or from inventory. You can optionally ship part quantities using either base legal numbers or modify these numbers to generate Serial Shipment Container Codes (SSCC). When you set up the format you want for either legal numbers or SSCC numbers, these values automatically generate on your shipments. Use these numbers to track the progress of your shipped items.

This module also contains functionality to combine shipments from one or more suppliers that can be shipped in one or more containers. For your subcontract workflow, you can ship WIP parts directly from a job to a subcontract supplier. Later, you use Receipt Entry to enter the receipt of all inventory materials, non-inventory materials, and subcontract parts.

Various pack out methods are available. Standard Pack Out is a method of shipping that uses a barcode scanner to record and track the packing flow. Use Master Pack Shipment Entry to combine separate pack IDs (master packs) into one master pack group to ship as one shipment. Phantom pack out functionality is available when you are using a manifest interface and provides the ability to generate multiple carrier labels for a single pack ID.

To complete this functionality, you can use the Data Collection module to process different transactions in the application by entering and updating records through a handheld device.