Delivery Consolidation enables you to join a new delivery line, or a line released from backorder, to an existing delivery. You can also group deliveries with similar attributes into trips.
Rather than creating a new delivery when Auto-Create Deliveries is executed, through batch or Pick Release, delivery consolidation functionality systematically assigns delivery lines to qualified existing deliveries.
The Process Deliveries - SRS concurrent program is another method used to consolidate delivery lines into deliveries, and to consolidate deliveries into trips. See: Process Deliveries SRS
The following is required to utilize delivery consolidation:
Delivery status is Open.
Appending Limit is not Do Not Append (Shipping Parameters window)
Autocreate Deliveries is enabled (Shipping Parameters window)
Ship Confirm Rule is Null (Shipping Parameters window)
Auto-pack Options is No (Shipping Parameters window)
Append Deliveries is Yes (Release Sales Orders for Picking window)
Organization is selected (Release Sales Orders for Picking window)
Customer and Ship Method Delivery Grouping Attributes must be selected (Shipping Parameters window)
Note: When a line is appended to a delivery, the appending shipping exception is logged if this exception type is enabled. If this line is later unassigned from the delivery, the shipping exception is not removed. Further, when ship confirming the delivery, the exception will still be displayed despite the fact that the appended line was previously unassigned.
See Oracle Order Management Implementation Manual, Shipping Execution Setup chapter.