Global General parameters enable you to define miscellaneous parameters and unit of measure (UOM) defaults for all of your organizations.

1. Select the Enforce Ship Method check box to enforce that a ship method (carrier) is entered and recorded for each shipment. This is recommended if your business practices require a record of the ship method/carrier for each shipment.
Selected: During order processing, if a ship method has not been entered, then an error message is displayed at ship confirm and you are prevented from ship confirming until a ship method is entered. You can enter the ship method in the Confirm Delivery window, the Delivery tab of the Shipping Transactions form, or the Sales Order window.
Cleared: The ship method is not enforced at ship confirm and an error message is not displayed. For example, if your organization uses the same ship method (carrier) for all shipments, you may not want to enforce the selection of a ship method.

2.  Allow Future Ship Date.
Selected: You can enter a future date as the Actual Departure Date while ship confirming the delivery
Cleared: you should not enter a future date as the Actual Departure Date while ship confirming the delivery because you receive an error

3. Select the Defer Interface check box if you want to defer shipping interfaces from initiating updates to the Oracle Order Management and Oracle Inventory interface tables.
Selected: You must manually run the interface to update the interface tables. For example, if you defer the Inventory Interface, the inventory tables are not updated until you manually run the Inventory Interface in the Shipping Interfaces window.
Cleared: The interfaces are run automatically at ship confirmation.

4. Select Consolidate Backordered Lines if you want to consolidate a line that was split and subsequently backordered. The line will be automatically consolidated with other backordered lines that it was part of originally.

5. Within the Global UOM Defaults region,
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• Default weight UOM in deliveries, stops and containers for their respective weights
• Default handling UOMs for facilities
• Default weight UOM in Carrier/Carrier Services Rating/Mode Limits tab

The Volume Class default controls:

• Default volume UOM in deliveries, stops and containers for their respective volumes
• Default handling UOMs for facilities
• Default volume UOM in Carrier/Carrier Services Rating/Mode Limits tab

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