Pack Slip – An Overview

Pack slip is a delivery notice sent to the customer along with the shipment of goods or parts. A pack slip is created in the following circumstances:

• For customer goods: The customer goods pack slip is created when you wish to return the core or parts belonging to the customer. This type of pack slip allows you to return the customer-owned goods or parts that are lying in excess in the maintenance shop.

• Against a customer order: A customer order communicates the details of the service to be performed on an aviation asset. It contains details such as the work units, sub-component information, customer-supplied part details, discrepancies and maintenance object details. After the service is performed, a pack slip can be created against the customer order, to return the serviced goods to the customer.

• For sale of parts: You can create a pack slip, to ship parts that are directly sold to the customer.

The pack slip contains shipment information such as the customer details, item details, carrier, vehicle, freight bill number, insurance number, packing information and the quantity of the goods.

Before reaching the customer, the pack slip undergoes various status transformations as explained below:

• Fresh: The status of the pack slip on creation.

• Confirmed: The status of the pack slip on confirmation. When all the details pertaining to the the pack slip is entered it can be confirmed.

• Allocated: When the confirmed quantity specified in the pack slip, has been allocated.

• Issued: When the allocated quantity has been issued from the specified warehouses.

• Shipped: When the issued quantity has been sent to the customer from the specified warehouses to the shipping locations.

You are also provided with the option of short closing a “confirmed” or “allocated” pack slip, so that it is disabled for future references.

In addition to these status transformations, the pack slip can also be ‘held’ or ‘released’ for further processing. Once a pack slip is held, it cannot be used for further actions, till it is released. You can hold pack slips that are in “Confirmed” or “Allocated” or “Issued”” status. The transient status of the pack slip is updated as “Hold”. You can release pack slips that are in “Hold” status. The transient status of the pack slip is updated as “Released”.

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