Shipping manages information such as trips, trip stops, deliveries, delivery lines, containers, and freight costs. It archives and purges the Shipping Transaction data.

A trip is an instance of a specific freight carrier departing from a particular location containing deliveries. A trip contains at least two stops such as a stop to pick up goods and another stop to drop off goods, and may include intermediate stops. A trip can consist of pick-ups, drop-offs, or both.

A delivery consists of a set of delivery lines that are scheduled to be shipped to a customer’s ship-to location on a specific date and time. In a delivery, you can include items from different sales orders. You can group one or more deliveries together to create a trip. More than one trip may be required to complete a delivery. For example, a delivery can consist of two trips, the first trip by truck and the second trip by rail.