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In this article, I’m going to take a look at how shipments can be entered via the source document. Shipping goods in this way, is done when there is no specific requirement for warehouse processing. This is usually only used by companies operating smaller warehouses or stock rooms.
This configuration is not even part of the basic warehouse functionality as there is nothing on the location which needs to be configured.
When you ships items on a sales order in this default configuration, shipping is as simple as opening the Sales Order page and entering a the quantity of stock being shipped in the Qty. to Ship field; it will default to the remaining amount so you only need to change this if you are shipping less than the remaining amount.
Multiple lines can be shipped at the same time; in fact, if you only want to ship one of several lines, you need to set the Qty. to Ship to 0 for the other lines.
To complete the shipment, click the Posting » Post… action on the page’s main action bar; in the popup dialog, mark Ship and click OK:
If you did a partial shipment of a PO, then additional shipments can be done through the same window, by repeating the actions above..
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