The Shipping Order document and Supplier Shipping Process are mainly used for imported goods that you may have paid for in advance. Abel’s Shipping Order provides visibility in Abel of Goods on Ships which typically have long delivery times. The “On Ships” quantity is shown in Abel in selected stock enquiry screens and reorder screens.
You can split additional costs such as customs or freight charges across the inventory lines on the Shipping Order.
A typical workflow looks like this:
- Create Supplier Purchase Orders using Abel’s normal workflow
- Create Supplier Invoices for the shipping process
- Create a Shipping Order document for the manifest with the expected ship date and arrival dates.
You can split duty, freight and other fees across the inventory lines on the Shipping Order. - Stock can be put away directly from the Shipping Order document (or optionally, you can also create a Supplier Delivery document to put the stock away).
This example shows a Shipping Order with fees being spread in proportion to the value of the inventory lines:
