About Bill/Ship Complete

Bill complete and ship complete are features that let you improve your customer service and warehouse flow.

Bill complete lets you delay a customer's invoice from automatically flowing to accounts receivable until the order ships. After the order ships, you release the bill complete invoices to A/R. Set the Hold Invoices box in the Customer Order Entry tab to C. After the merchandise has been shipped, you must release the bill complete invoices to accounts receivable.

Ship complete gives you control over when orders ship. To have orders ready for delivery at a particular time, you have to give your warehouse workers time to pull and prepare the orders. However, you may have several large, complicated orders due at the same time, for example, those from school districts. Using ship complete, you can plan for these orders, so your warehouse operates efficiently and the orders are delivered on time.

With the ship complete feature, you can:

Pick and pack an order before the ticket is complete
Batch print or print tickets when you flush them
Verify and print the ship complete orders
View a report by percentage of completion
Change the percentage of completion for the orders included on the report
Include/exclude ship complete orders
Print and verify regular orders.

The message Ship Complete Do Not Deliver prints on the ticket. This text does not print on the invoice, however. Also, the special text displays when inquiring on the order in the Order Entry window. When creating a shipping manifest, you can set parameters to include the ship complete orders on the manifest only when the order is complete. When creating a picking manifest, you can include or exclude ship complete orders, just as with Furniture, will call, or Serialized orders. To be included on the picking manifest, however, ship complete orders must meet the percentage of completion set up in the (LF1) Purchase Order Flushing Parameters screen.

The percentage of completion is set in the (LF1) screen. Although quantities are assigned, the ticket does not print until the order meets that percentage. Previously shipped items hold at a status 6 and flushed items hold at a status 7 until this percentage is met. Once the percentage is met, these statuses move to a status 8 or 9.

To batch print ship complete orders, set the Allow Auto Verifying With Batch Printing (TR-V) field in the (LGØ) Order Entry Parameters screen to Y. To print tickets as you flush them, use the (TR) Order Entry Reports screen.

You can use the ship complete feature with any customer, including bill complete customers. For regular customers (those who are not set up with bill complete), you use the ship complete special in Order Entry. This special enables the ship complete feature for the order you are placing.

To enable the ship complete feature for a bill complete customer, type S in the Hold Invoices box in the Customer Order Entry tab for each customer. You set this parameter by customer. The order prints when it reaches the percentage you set in the (LF1) screen. The customer is not billed, however, until the order ships. You can turn the ship complete feature on and off by order.

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