The provides shipment selectors that groups shipments of similar attributes. A shipment selector consists of shipment item attributes used to distinguish and group shipments. A shipment group defined can have multiple shipment selectors assigned to it. For example, an emergency shipment group has shipments with Priority Code as 'E' or shipments expected to ship in four hours from now.
Shipment selector criteria includes:
A shipment selector is a combination of all defined attributes. For example, the 'Urgent Orders' shipment selector includes attributes such as order type, priority code, and requested ship date.
A shipment selector’s ability to filter appropriate shipments for a customer or for an item classification is utilized to optimize the processes in a warehouse. For example, a warehouse may have a special group for its largest customer or for the most stringent customer or carrier.
Order releases are combined into shipments by either or by an external system.
A shipment group also considers physical constraints specified at a warehouse level or at the group level for a shipment. For example:
These constraints applied to each shipment are rolled up to a shipment group level in order to limit the number of shipments released together. A wave is created based on the defined constraints.