Ship Material#

Material.Ship

Overview#

This operation is used to send a Material, with or without its Containers, to a different Facility (local or remote). When a Material is shipped, all its SubMaterials are shipped along with it.

Setup#

In order to be able to ship a Material, it is necessary that:

1. The property Shipping Allowed is set to true at the Step where the Material is currently located.
2. The Facility to which the Material is to be sent is defined in the ShippingToAllowedFacilities property of the current Material Facility.

Preconditions#

• Material is Active, not on hold and not in transit.
• Material is in state Processed or Queued.
• In case that the user chooses to ship the Containers, all Containers will only contain Material which is part of the Material being shipped (that is, they are Sub or SubSubMaterials of the Topmost Material).
• Material is a Topmost Material, that is, it has no parent Material.
• The Material is currently at a Step that has the Is Shipping Allowed property set to true.
• The Material must not belong to any Protocol Instance with the Inhibit Ship property set to true.
• If the Material is associated with a Production Order and shipping to a local Facility with Terminate On Ship set to true, the Material must have the property Is Production Complete set to true.
• There must not be any Material Time Constraint violated for the Material, at the current context and transaction.
• Material must not be associated with a required Future Action.
• The Main Material and all of its SubMaterials must not have any open defects (Open Defect Count is zero).
• For all the selected Materials to be shipped with a Material Package Count greater than zero, considering the complete hierarchy (consider only Active Packages) of all the Packages that reference those Materials, those Packages in their hierarchy must not include other Materials, and the Top-Level Packages must be in System State Closed.

Sequence of Steps#

Step 1#

This screen captures all the necessary information for the transaction. Note that it is possible to select multiple Materials before entering the wizard.

1. Verify the Material information.
2. Select the Facility to which the Material should be shipped.
3. Optionally, enter or select an existing shipping label.
4. Check the Ship Containers option to ship the Containers along with the Material. Note that this setting applies to all Containers of the SubMaterials as well.
5. Optionally, enter a comment.
6. Select Ship to complete the operation.