Outbound shipment pipeline

The actual processing of a outbound shipment flows through a set of transactions and statuses until its completion. This chain of transactions and shipment statuses is called the outbound shipment pipeline.

The outbound shipment pipeline provides Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation with a means to perform actions, such as sending notifications or logging alerts, dependent on the location of the outbound shipment in its pipeline. It also provides you with a means to track an outbound shipment from creation to delivery.

The outbound shipment pipeline from which your business runs is unique to how your system administrator has set up your business environment. However, every outbound shipment pipeline generally begins with a transaction that creates an outbound shipment and ends with a transaction that indicates an order has been delivered.

A transaction is an occurrence that needs to be tracked and can call certain actions to be performed. A shipment status describes what state an outbound shipment is in and moves it from transaction to transaction.