How to Generate a Shipment Manifest

Home/Dynamic Ship/User Guide/How to Generate a Shipment Manifest

How to Generate a Shipment Manifest

You are here:

You can generate a shipment manifest from within Dynamic Ship per carrier per day. You can use this manifest to verify the packages that are set to leave your warehouse.

A carrier manifest can only contain posted shipments for the same day and must be generated daily prior to the truck arriving for pickup. You can add past shipments to a generic manifest and leave unprinted so that they are consumed; the past shipments do not show up as available when generating a new manifest.

Settings:

  • Set up users in Warehouse Employees with warehouse (location) access.
  • Set up users in Insight Works Users to Manage License Plates.

Create a Shipment Manifest

To create a shipment manifest, follow the steps below.

  1. Navigate to Dynamic Ship Shipment Manifest List.
  2. Create a new manifest.
  3. Set the Location Code as all shipments must have the same ship from address.
  4. Set the Shipping Agent Code.
  5. Use the Get Shipment Documents action (opens list of license plates that match the location and shipping agent criteria).
  6. Select license plates that you want to manifest.
  7. Select Release from the Process menu (if you receive an error, see below).
  8. Select Print Manifest Report (opens a PDF of the manifest).

One Scan USPS Manifests

The driver can use a USPS Manifest to receive multiple shipments at once and may even be mandated by the USPS driver. You must first enable this aspect of the integration.

  1. Navigate to the Dynamic Ship Carriers.
  2. Find the entry for USPS.
  3. Set Manifest Report Handling to Carrier to use the API functionality for manifests.
  4. Follow the Create a Shipment Manifest steps above to create the manifest for USPS.

SpeeDee Manifests

The driver can use a SpeeDee Manifest to receive multiple shipments at once and may even be mandated by the SpeeDee driver. You must first enable this aspect of the integration. Complete the following:

  1. Navigate to the Dynamic Ship Carriers.
  2. Locate the entry for SpeeDee.
  3. Set Manifest Report Handling to Carrier to use the API functionality for manifests.
  4. Follow the Create a Shipment Manifest steps above to create the manifest for SpeeDee.

Canada Post Manifests

The driver can use a Canada Post Manifest to receive multiple shipments at once and may even be mandated by the Canada Post driver. You must first enable this aspect of the integration. Complete the following:

  1. Navigate to the Dynamic Ship Carriers.
  2. Locate the entry for Canada Post.
  3. Set Manifest Report Handling to Carrier to use the API functionality for manifests.
  4. Follow the Create a Shipment Manifest steps above to create the manifest for Canada Post.

Known Potential Errors

  • Unable to create manifest. 1 of the specified shipments were not found: shp_xyz123

USPS manifests all shipments at 17:00 PST. Shipments after 17:00 PST cannot be manifested by the system. You must remove them from the manifest to continue. Do not rely on the auto manifesting as you cannot retrieve the corresponding manifests. You can attempt to avoid this by selecting only shipments from the current day, not previous ones.

Was this article helpful?
5 out Of 5 Stars

1 rating

5 Stars 100%
4 Stars 0%
3 Stars 0%
2 Stars 0%
1 Stars 0%
How can we improve this article?
Please submit the reason for your vote so that we can improve the article.
Need help?

Leave A Comment

Go to Top