Quick guide for MachShip - Convert an Order into a Consignment and Manifest – Machship

Below you will find links to the major functionalities related to the conversion of orders into Consignments.

What are Pending Consignments:

One of the key efficiency targets for any business is to cut out manual tasks and automate as many processes as possible. In the Supply Chain and Logistics sector, a key blocker to this achievement is having prior knowledge of the final shipping dimensions and weights of a consignment. In order to allow for partial automation of the consignment creation process, MachShip has the Pending Consignment feature which will enable a user to pass through Order Data or incomplete consignment data.

With this incomplete consignment or order data, despatch teams can:

Finalise and create consignments with correct and accurate shipping dimensions. By utilising already pre-loaded pick-up, delivery, reference and if possible, carrier data, the time it takes to create a consignment can be cut down significantly.
Consolidate orders or orders with pre-created consignments in a more efficient process than via the Edit Consignment method.
Store consignment data that enables you to finalise and automatically print labels at a convenient time.

Data can be fed into MachShip to create a Pending Consignment via any of the integration methods which are available.

If this is the best method for you and you would like a full end to end set of instructions on how to provide data to MachShip via Pending Consignment there are multiple methods and these are outlined below:

Once the Pending Consignment has been created the below will describe the various methods you can finalise this order into a Consignment and Manifest them.

Via Querying Available Carriers and Prices: