Road Map: Sales Shipment Approval Inquiry

Use the Sales Shipment Approval Inquiry (APPHQ) program to display the status of sales shipments that require approval and who needs to sign off.

Before you run this program each time

You may have run these programs in this sequence:

  1. (Conditional) Order Shipment Selection (OSS) to select sales orders or order lines to obligate and create shipments, if you have not done so with Sales Order Maintenance.

OR

Sales Order Auto Processing (OAP) to obligate sales orders and create shipments.

  1. Sales Shipment Confirmation (OC) or Secured Confirmation (SOC) to create a shipment, if you have not already done so, and confirm the shipment.

AND/OR

Bill of Lading Maintenance (BLM) to create a bill of lading and confirm the shipments and bill of lading.

You may also have run this program:

  • Approvals Signoff (APPV) to approve a sales order that requires approval.

Before you run this program the first time

You should run these programs:

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Order Processing Options) to set the Sales order approvals required? option.

  • System Options Maintenance (XM) (Enterprise Options) to select a date display format for your enterprise, Branch Maintenance (TBM) to select a date display format for your branch, or User Maintenance (UIM) to select a date display format for an individual user.

  • Approval Hierarchy Maintenance (APPHM) to set up a hierarchy that determines approval cycles for sales order shipments.

  • Approvals Maintenance (APPM) to enter approval cycle records for each level in the hierarchy.

After you run this program

You will most likely run these programs:

  • Approvals Signoff (APPV) to approve sales order shipments that require approval.