The term Inbound compliance refers to the enterprise conforming to the buyer's conditions about consolidation and delivery.
The buyer can have required conditions which must be met when shipping to that buyer. For example, a buyer require orders with different order numbers be shipped in separate shipments. Similarly, a buyer may require orders with different department numbers be shipped in separate shipments.
In the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation, conditions for inbound compliance are established in Participant modeling.
You can establish these conditions for inbound compliance:
Category | Description |
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Consolidation | Describes if items can be placed in the same shipment. Criteria include: different PO numbers, different order number, different departments, different "Mark For", and different Order Types. |
ESP | Whether to use Economic Shipping parameters, and the conditions of those parameters. |
Carrier Preferences | A list of preferred carriers. These carrier preferences should be honored, if possible, but a shipment can be made using an alternative carrier, if no matching preferred carrier can be used. |
Routing Guide | A guide which describes criteria for how to route deliveries. |
Packaging | Describes conditions about mixing items within the same case
or pallet. For example, do not mix items with different UOMs in the
same pallet. Also provides conditions about when to apply Shipping Container Marking. |
Value Added Services | Value Added Services define additional processing or handling used to provide inventory that meets the buyer's requirements. |