In Warehouse‑only mode (WOM), outbound shipment orders created from different legal entities and source systems cannot be consolidated into a single shipment when released to the warehouse. This limitation persists even when:
- Goods physically reside in the same WOM warehouse
- They share the same destination postal address
- They belong to the same outbound load
- Operationally, the warehouse ships them together in one physical container
Currently, WOM enforces mandatory consolidation keys such as:
- Account number
- Delivery recipient
- Inventory owner
- Source system
This strict enforcement prevents warehouse operations from consolidating outbound work into a single shipment when the orders originate from different financial owners or different source systems.
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This behavior contradicts the core operational intent of Warehouse‑only mode, which is designed to centralize physical warehouse execution across multiple legal entities.
From an operational standpoint:
- The warehouse should be able to pick, pack, and ship items together when they are physically identical in their logistics flow.
- Financial ownership should not restrict physical execution.
- Current logic forces unnecessary shipment splits, additional containers, extra documentation, and redundant scanning and picking processes.
Customers find this behavior not operationally logical, as WOM is intended to abstract away company‑level financial differences from warehouse users.
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- Increased warehouse workload
- Duplicate picking and packing processes
- More containers and packing materials used
- Higher transportation costs
- More load lines and shipment documents to manage
- Reduced efficiency and slower outbound processing
- Complexity in carrier integration scenarios where one physical shipment must map to multiple system shipments
This significantly undermines the efficiency gains expected from Warehouse‑only mode.
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Requested Enhancement:
Introduce an option or parameter in Warehouse-only mode that allows outbound shipment consolidation based on:
- Warehouse + Postal Address
- (allowing consolidation across different inventory owners and source systems)