Print Orders by Ship Via will allow you to mass print Pick Tickets according to their designated Ship Via. Pick Tickets may be printed for a particular truck or route, along with  groups of Pick Tickets within the same Ship Via. You may also assign a printer at the time of printing. An additional feature in this program allows you to finalize all Invoices based on the criteria selected.

IMPORTANT: Only Debit Orders (DI) and Internal Transfers (TI) are processed by this program.

The Current Invoice Date for the Port will be displayed above the criteria.

The Ship Via is a free-form item listed at "POS Order Entry” (1.1 field 4) or you may set a default Ship Via for the individual customer in "Customer Entry" in ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (6.1.1 field 21).

IMPORTANT: It is very important that you create standard Ship Via's to use or you will not print some vital Orders. If ALL Ship Via's are chosen, it will also choose those Orders that do not have a Ship Via listed.

You may set a default “Ship Via” to be displayed on this screen. The default entry is created at TCL: U MASTER SHIP.VIA.IP.DEFAULT. Enter the value into attribute 1. This value will then come up automatically in the “Ship Via” field.

You may select this report for a particular Owner’s Name, Shipto Customer, and/or Billto Customer.

The Begin and End Dates are mandatory entries. This prevents every Order ever being created from being printed.

This report may be Sorted by either the Ship Via, Customer Name, Invoice, Order Number, or Shipto Customer Sort Code.

NOTE: Will print the "Customers Part Number" on the invoice print if the customer's part numbers are setup in Customer On Line Setup (10.6.X.1 field 15)

You may Finalize and Print the Selected Orders. You have the opportunity to Finalize a batch of Invoices, based on the selected criteria. This is especially useful to Warehouses and Jobbers who create Hold Orders rather than Finalized Orders during the day and want to finalize all of the Orders at one time.

Sorting by Invoice Number and choosing the <F>inalize or <P>ick options will actually sort by customer name since there is no invoice number at that time.

You may choose a different Invoice Print Program when printing batch orders. See POS Defaults and Comments option for more detail in (10.2.6.2 field 77):

Note: This can be useful if you want to reprint invoices on plain paper.

WARNING: Once an Order has been finalized, Line Items and prices may not be edited. Please refer to "Unposted Invoice Maintenance" in ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (6.3.1) for information on Voiding Orders.

NOTE: The Date, Time, and Who Finalized the Order will be recorded in the ORDER record. This data is displayed at "POS Order Entry" (1.1).

You may print Pick Tickets for the Debit Orders (DI) or Internal Transfers (IT) on Hold with the selected criteria. Throughout the day, you may be adding on to the Hold Orders. You have a choice of printing just the items that have been added-on to the Orders since the last printing or to print the entire Orders.

Print Orders by Ship Via will automatically calculate freight during the Print Pick Ticket function if forced freight is <Y> or forced freight on Haz Mat is <Y> and the order minimum has not been met. If Freight has already been charged or overridden by the salesperson, no additional freight will be computed. This will only be done if the order type is "DI" (Debit Sales Order). The Freight rate, Freight Surcharge rate, Forced Freight, Forced Freight on Haz Mat and Minimum Order value are stored in "Customer Ship Via Entry" in ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (6.1.9.1). This process does not require any user intervention.

When placing a Debit Invoice (DI) or Transfer Invoice (TI) on Hold, all items will increment the Quantity on Hold in the Inventory File. This amount may be viewed in “Inventory Entry” in INVENTORY (5.1.1 field 27) and “Inventory Inquiry” in POINT OF SALE (1.1 & 1.5) and PURCHASING (3.3.1).

WMS-generated shipping labels will check for the MASTER ALT.SHIP.PRINT flag used for packing slip printing, and use the same logic (if necessary) to show the Billto as the Ship From Address, and the Alternate Shipto or Free Form Shipto as the Ship To address.

Shipping Address Labels (ship from address) will no use the Alternate Shipto logic for customers using the MASTER ALT.SHIP.PRINT flag. This only affects non-VMI orders

You also have the option of reprinting Finalized Invoices.

You may choose the printer to print your Finalized Orders or Pick Tickets. The default printer assignment from "Port Entry" (1.10) for the port will be displayed. The default printer assignment for Finalized Orders will be taken from the "Debit Invoice Printer” (field 8). The default printer assignment for Pick Tickets will be the "Pick Ticket" (field 8) printer.

There is an Inter-Order delay that may be setup if there are problems when batch printing a large amount of orders. The delay is setup at TCL with the editor. The item is setup in the MASTER file and the item name is INTER.ORD.DELAY concatenated with the location number so that this can be setup by location. The following will perform an 8-second delay between each invoice print generated from the "Print Orders by Ship Via" program:

       U MASTER INTER.ORD.DELAY1

       01 8

The program will generate only one print file when <R>eprinting multiple invoices. This is helpful only when generating a listing to a file using a PDF printer assignment. In order to use this feature, a flag in the MASTER file must be manually turned on:

MASTER SHIP.VIA.IP.REPRINT.FLAG

Enter a 1 in attribute 1 and file the item. This feature will only work with the <R>eprint option, and additional programming will be necessary within the Invoice Print programs for customers interested in utilizing it.