Multiple shipments against single order line with qty of 1

Hi @greg.eickmeier,

I'm curious why you need multiple shipments.  I understand there is a need for 3 flat bed trailers.

If you can elaborate on the business requirement, that may be helpful.  For example, are the trailers coming to pick up the material on 3 separate days and you are hoping to avoid decrementing inventory after day 1?

Also, can you please share what IFS version you are using?

@astfarazt My IFS vernacular is probably not right yet (we aren’t going live with IFS cloud until the spring).  I don’t need three separate shipment records, I am just looking for a way to specify that we are shipping the building on 3 different trucks/trailers with unique paperwork for each load (packing list/BOL).  The customers and our teams need to know which parts are on which trailer. It can all be the same shipment number.  The order may ship in phases due to the sizes (sometime 2-3 weeks apart).  

​@greg.eickmeier Sorry, I did not see that a reply was posted here.

Hmm, this is a bit of a tricky scenario.

Have you considered just partially reserving the line prior to each Shipment?  

Document Text could be added to indicate what physical items are being delivered with the Shipment.

A rule could be added to the Report Layout to modify the quantity or remove it so that it is not confusing to your end customer.   

Another alternative could be setting up “dummy” inventory parts that represent what is being shipped out.  For example, a part number that represents the 1st portion of the Building you’re shipping.  You could keep this in inventory at zero cost and add it to the customer order. Each line could be connected to a separate Shipment.  

Once all the “dummy” parts are shipped, you could “ship” out the actual Sales Part to decrement inventory and invoice the customer.  

​@greg.eickmeier - What did you end up doing?  I have a facility running into the same issue where they produce a large product against a single customer order line, but needs to make multiple shipments.

We decided to take a different approach to how we create the customer order.  We create a non inventory part for the top level part that holds the revenue dollars.  Then we create (through an integrated program) part lines for all of the lower level shippable parts at $0 on the sales order.  These parts hold the cost and allow us to ship all of the components that make up the non inventory part.  We then add these lower level parts to shipment many different shipments (could be as many as 4 or 5 shipments (truckloads)).  We add the Non Inventory Part to one of these so the revenue is recognized.   It’s not the prettiest way to do it but it works.