Consolidation: master shipments

The consolidation manifest lists the house shipments of a booking with their shippers, consignees, packages and hazardous materials indication. It is the document that the shipping line or the airline expects with the consolidation.

1. Open Consolidation and Master shipments.
2. Select the booking in the list and press Edit.
3. Go to the Documents tab.
4. Tick Consolidation manifest, choose the format and the language, and press Generate.

By air the manifest carries the house and master documents and the indication of hazardous materials that IATA DGR 8.1.2.4 requires for a consolidation.

The container list gathers the transport units of the booking with their identification, their seals, their masses and their loading state, and says which ones are shared with another booking.

1. Open Consolidation and Master shipments, and edit the booking.
2. Check in the Units tab that every unit of the booking is attached.
3. Go to the Documents tab.
4. Tick Container list and press Generate.

The list only exists for sea and road: a consolidation by air has no transport units in this sense.

The packing list says what went into each unit: which house shipment, how many packages of each line and in what position, so that the receiver knows what to expect when the doors are opened.

1. Open Consolidation and Master shipments, and edit the booking.
2. Go to the Documents tab.
3. Tick Packing list and press Generate.

If a shipment travels split between several units, the list shows each part with the packages that correspond to it, and the totals of the line are kept.

The load sheet groups the load by shipper, with the totals of packages, net mass and gross mass. It is what the terminal uses to know what is arriving and in what order.

1. Open Consolidation and Master shipments, and edit the booking.
2. Go to the Documents tab.
3. Tick Load sheet and press Generate.

The same sheet can be issued from the trip, in the Documents tab of the trip, when what you want is everything that travels together and not only one booking.

The data sheet gathers what has to be typed into the master document —the bill of lading by sea or the master air waybill by air— with each value next to the box where it goes.

1. Open Consolidation and Master shipments, and edit the booking.
2. Check in the Definition tab that the master document number is recorded.
3. Go to the Documents tab.
4. Tick Master document data sheet and press Generate.

The sheet does not replace the master document: it is the summary that lets you fill it in without going back over every house shipment.