You can track how suppliers ship purchase orders to your business by configuring shipment types that indicate delivery methods like air freight, sea freight, or courier services. Using shipment types in the PO Manager helps retail operators search, filter, and monitor incoming inventory shipments more effectively, improving purchase order tracking and helping anticipate stock arrival timing based on shipping method.
Setting up shipment types aligned with your supplier delivery methods helps retail operators better forecast inventory arrivals and manage receiving operations across multiple purchase orders and suppliers.
The Shipment Types feature is used to indicate the method that your supplier will use when shipping Purchase Orders to you. Shipment Types are then used when creating a Purchase Order and can be used in the PO Manager to search and filter your orders.
Create a Shipment Type
To create a new Shipment Type:
- Navigate to Settings > Purchase Orders Setup > Shipment Types
- Enter a Shipment Type name
- Click Create
Manage Existing Shipment Types
To manage existing Shipment Types:
- Click the Pencil icon
to edit the name - Click the Trash can icon
to delete an existing Shipment Type
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