The custom shipment is a type of shipment customized by the user in the SCM UI. The user can add Shipment templates, Warning templates, Contacts templates, and customize the Property to simplify the creation process.
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Create a Custom shipment
A custom shipment is created in 4 steps that include:
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To create a Custom shipment, press the Create Shipment button under the Shipments tab and select the Create a Custom shipment Skip Template, as shown in the image below. Press the Continue button to move from page to page and the Back button if you need to go back to the previous page.
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Select the logger(s):
Add loggers by pressing the Add Loggers button. Select You can only Free select free loggers from the drop-down menu since once a logger has been selected, it disappears from the list. The number count in the bracket implies the number of loggers added. On the images below, the numbers in the bracket register 1 logger and 5 loggers.
To narrow down the search for specific loggers, start typing in the logger ID (at least two characters are required to filter results).
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Loggers can also be added manually by scanning the barcode. To scan a logger, press the Scan barcode button and scan the barcode on the logger to use.
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If the scanned logger is free (not assigned to another shipment), the manually assigned logger is visible on the list of selected loggers for the shipment. If the logger is not found, it has already been added to the current shipment, or shipment or is in use in another shipment. An error view appears and suggests to the user to scan the barcode of another logger.
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Basic Info and Shipping & Delivery fields
Fill in the necessary fields, including Basic Info and Shipping & Delivery, in the Info section.
For Basic Info, the user needs to fill in the Shipment name/reference field with the option to add a Shipment description.
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Select a Shipping origin and a Delivery destination. If the applicable locations do not appear in the drop-down lists, see here how to create new locations. Note that only locations from the currently active project, if any, will appear as options. Once the locations have been selected, an appropriate Shipping method and Delivery method is selected (more information about the available methods can be seen here).
Select an Ignore period (start and end) for the shipment.
Optionally, set a delivery deadline in the Deliver before field. After the deadline passes, the shipment is marked as being late.
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Warnings templates and manually set Warnings
In the Warnings section, you can choose between the following 3 options:
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Set the temperature threshold by setting the Upper boundaries and Lower boundaries
Set alarm boundary delay (°C for at least)
Set warning Severity (Low, Medium, or High)
Following The following restrictions apply to the temperature boundaries:
Maximum number of boundaries is 6 per upper and lower, i.e., maximum of 12 boundaries
Temperature boundary can be set to a maximum of 300°C
Temperature boundary can be set to a minimum of -273.1°C
There cannot be a crossover between upper and lower temperature boundaries. That means the upper boundary cannot have a lower temperature value than a lower boundary and vice versa.
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Contacts template or manually added contacts
User Users can select a pre-defined contacts template, define custom contacts, or not add any contacts for the shipment.
In the Contacts section, you can choose between the following 3 options:
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