Many to One Delivery Overview

In the typical scenario you have for example 8 similar inventory lots from different purchase that you are shipping all together to fulfill (a part of) a single sales contract delivery line. The shipping company gets instructions to make a single B/L (bill of lading), as you want to sell it to the buy as 1 item.

However, in Agiblocks all these inventory lots are separate items and also recorded as 8 separates sales delivery lines, each with their own P&L. And this is considered correct: you still want to know per item what the results are. For the logistics user however this means they need to split the B/L quantities again in 8 separate line quantities and record them line by line each on their own form. Next when the invoice is being made, it will add only 1 of the items to the invoice, and they need to find and select the other 7 items manually.

When you create a shipment with multiple inventory lots going to the same sales contract delivery line, then Agiblocks will group these lines together visually and allow you to use a single execution form for the entire group. Agiblocks will offer the same grouping when you ship multiple purchase lots to the same sales contract delivery line, but not for a mix of inventory items and purchases (then it makes 2 groups).

The execution form for such a group will show on one form for each line the same quantities that are also shown on the individual line execution-forms. Under these lines it shows also an extra line with the totals of these quantities across all these lines.

•	Users can edit the totals: Agiblocks will then distribute each total over the lines, proportional to the reserved quantities.

When the required numbers are entered, all the lines can be executed at once, either on the left, and later on the right, or both at the same time. The effect will be identical to doing all the actions on the individual lines: in fact the lines are executed and not the group.

While there is a group execution form, you still have the forms for the individual lines as well. The group form and the individual line forms can be used next to each other and also be mixed. Changes on one are reflected also on the other one.

To avoid conflicts there is a special rule for when you use the line forms to partially execute a group:

•	When a group is in a state where the group is partially executed (some lines are executed and others not), then the group form becomes read-only. So in that case further actions need to be done on the individual line forms.

•	You can arrive in this partially executed state by executing some but not all lines on the individual line forms, or when the full group is already executed, by un-executing one of the lines on its own form.

•	You can get out of this partially executed state by executing the not yet executed lines or by un-executing the already executed lines

Three improvements were made to make it easier to create the invoices for multiple delivery lines to the same sales contract or counterparty.

1.	Agiblocks will now automatically allocate all Sales cost items for deliveries within the same shipment for the same sales contract delivery line as the selected item to the invoice.

2.	Agiblocks will automatically show in the list of unallocated items, all Sales cost items within the same shipment for the same counterparty (but another sales contract delivery line). So you can more easily add all those on the same invoice.

Earlier, when allocating an item to the invoice you would first get a little form to supply details, and only when this form was filled and accepted, the item would be added to the list of invoice lines. Now when allocating a cost item to the invoice, it is immediately added as a line to the invoice. Optionally you can still edit that same form with an edit button on the invoice line. Obviously when required information is missing then editing the form is not optional. In a previous release, a mechanism to configure defaults for VAT/GST related topics was added, so this is often not needed.

When generating logistics documents, there is a new merge field on each sales delivery named GroupedDeliveryLines. This object has exactly the same properties as the individual delivery lines, but only the properties related to the group-execution form are filled. Most important is that there you find the totals of that form.