A delivery consists of set 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 as well as back orders. You can either manually or automatically group delivery lines to create a delivery. If a delivery is autocreated, the delivery lines are grouped together by the mandatory default criteria, ship-from location and ship-to location. However, additional grouping criteria can be included.

1.1 In operating unit level we can control the auto create delivery in shipping parameter.

1.2. Deliveries can be automatically created during the process of pick release by enabling autocreate delivery in pick release form.

1.3. we can manually create the delivery number in shipping transaction form.

• Customer
• Freight Terms
• FOB Code
• Intermediate Ship To location
• Ship Method

The delivery attributes determine how delivery lines are grouped into deliveries when auto-creating deliveries. For example, if the grouping attribute Customer is selected, the delivery lines are grouped into deliveries by customer: for example, deliveries for Customer A are grouped into Delivery A, deliveries for Customer B are grouped into Delivery B.

You can select more than one grouping attribute to refine your grouping criteria further: for example, if you select Customer and Ship Method as grouping criteria, delivery lines with the same customer and carrier criteria are grouped into deliveries.
If each optional grouping attribute is checked, the delivery's corresponding field cannot be updated if delivery lines are assigned to the delivery. This ensures that the delivery lines' grouping criteria is not broken by a different attribute value: for example, if someone tries to select a different ship method.

If each optional grouping attribute is unchecked, its field in the delivery record can be updated until the ship confirm stage.
For example, if you want to change the Ship Method in the delivery and do not need to enforce it as a grouping attribute, you can unselect Ship Method. Do not change these options if you have deliveries that are not ship confirmed.

• Select Within An Order to autocreate deliveries whose lines all belong to the same sales order and match on the Delivery Grouping Attributes.
• Select Across Orders to autocreate deliveries across orders. All selected delivery lines that match on the Delivery Grouping Attributes are eligible to appear on one delivery.

• Do Not Append
• Start of Staging
• End of Staging
• Start of Packing (Oracle WMS enabled organizations only)
• Start of Shipping (Oracle WMS enabled organizations only)