Shipment Consolidation

There is an easy and powerful way to manage logistics tracking and visibility within Anvyl. We understand that you coordinate closely with suppliers to maximize logistics efficiency and minimize shipment costs. Use Shipment Consolidations to track how your orders or individual line items are grouped and shipped within Anvyl. 

What's a Shipment Consolidation?

Think of a Shipment Consolidation as place where you can add multiple orders or line items across multiple orders, and track them all as with one or many tracked shipment requests. 

In a Consolidation, you will be able to:

• Link one or many orders
• Link line items across one or many orders
• Link multiple tracking references
• Attach shipment-related documents
• Add data related to shipments

If an order has been linked to a Consolidation, then the Consolidation detail will show up on the purchase order. 

• An order can have multiple shipment consolidations linked to it
• A shipment consolidation can contain more than one tracking reference

Adding a new Shipment

Create a new Shipment from the global actions menu

1. From the global actions menu, click Shipment
2. Select option to Add Shipment From Scratch
   • Note: Clicking Add Shipment Tracking Location will take you through the flow to initiate an ocean or air shipment lookup using a container number, bill of lading or master airway bill. Once completed, you will be landed on a Shipment detail page where you can proceed with steps 3 - 7 below to fill in more detail.
3. You’ll be landed on a new Shipment detail page, where you can then fill in details about that shipment in the fields and add order items to the shipment
4. To add order items, select Add Orders/Items
5. Select or search for the orders you’d like to add to this shipment
6. On the next screen, determine which line items from the selected orders you’d like to be included in this shipment. You can choose to either:
   • Add all line items from an order and automatically add any future line items that may be added to that order
   • Add all line items from an order without automatically adding any future line items that may be added to that order
   • Add a subset of line items from an order
7. Click Finish to confirm your selections and add the selected order items in question to the shipment

Note: Any line items added to a Shipment will reflect the ship date, delivery date and shipment status of the linked Shipment on the order detail page

Create a new Shipment from the order detail page

1. From the order detail page, click Shipment
2. On the next screen, you can either choose to create a new shipment or link an existing shipment to this order
3. Select option to Add Shipment From Scratch
4. You’ll be landed on a new Shipment detail page, where you can fill in shipment details and add order items to the shipment
5. To add order items, select Add Orders/Items
6. Select or search for the orders you’d like to add to this shipment
7. On the next screen, determine which line items from those orders you’d like to be included in this shipment. You can choose to either:
   • Add all line items from an order and automatically add any future line items that may be added to that order
   • Add all line items from an order without automatically adding any future line items that may be added to that order
   • Add a subset of line items from an order
8. Click Finish to confirm your selections and add the selected order items in question to the shipment

Note: Any line items added to a Shipment will reflect the ship date, delivery date and shipment status of the linked Shipment on the order detail page

Learn more about Shipments here.