Shipment
A shipment refers to a collection of goods or items being transported from one location to another. It typically involves packaging, labeling, and documentation for transportation by air, sea, rail,…
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A shipment refers to a collection of goods or items being transported from one location to another. It typically involves packaging, labeling, and documentation for transportation by air, sea, rail,…
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Shipment contains information such as expected quantity and type, weight, volume, goods description, order reference from warehouse, customer reference from forwarder, etc. Depending on the type of shipment, it might also contains e.g. MAWB number for import or export delivery preparation, HAWB number for import or export shipment, limit boarding time for export delivery preparation,…
Shipments are accessible only for theirs operators (warehouse, forwarder, shipper, etc.) during their lifespan.
Many shipment information are stored in related objects.
represent societies operating on the shipment with their role such as FORWARDER
, WAREHOUSE
, SHIPPER
or CONSIGNEE
.
follow the time line of the shipment, from ORDER
to DELIVERY
.
give extra information for every pieces of the shipment, typically after MEASUREMENT
event, such as length, width, height, weight, dangerous class and UN classification for dangerous goods.
is used when forwarder will ask extra operations on the shipment like WOOD PALLET, FILM WRAPPING, etc.
tell what type of securities method were applied to the shipment, typically after SECURITY
event, such as X-Ray, Explosive Detection Dog,…
provide information about files attached to the shipment such as URL to download the security manifest pdf.
Preparations allow to group multiple shipments together like for an export delivery order where the shipment will store the MAWB number, limit boarding time and destination and linked shipments representing the HAWB in the grouping.
Deliveries make possible to track the different order numbers attached to the shipment through its life cycle, from import/export number, to delivery preparation number in grouping/ungrouping , to delivery number.
store customs numbers related to the shipment.
give information about anything that went wrong with the shipment such as problems at import reception, rejected MAWB at export, etc. with the details like deficit, broken package,…