Managing Shipment Groups
Shipment groups enable you to perform manifest operations on a number of shipments at once. This section explains how to create, edit and use shipment groups.
What is a Shipment Group?
In Ship, a shipment group is a collection of one or more shipments that can be manifested in a single action.
Shipment groups enable you to align your manifest processes with your operational flows. For example, suppose that you allocate 500 shipments to a particular carrier and your distribution centre places those shipments into a cage to be loaded onto the carrier's outbound trailer. By creating a shipment group corresponding to that carrier's cage and then adding the relevant shipments to it, you could manifest all the shipments that the carrier will take on that trailer in a single API call.
Section Contents
- Creating Shipment Groups - Explains how to use the Create Shipment Group endpoint to create new shipment groups.
- Getting Shipment Groups - Explains how to retrieve existing shipment groups.
- Editing Shipment Groups - Explains how to edit existing shipment groups, add and remove shipments from a group, and lock groups so that they cannot be edited.
- Closing Shipment Groups - Explains how to close shipment groups.