What if 'Add to basket' indicates 'Add packaging units' when you want to book a slot for a transport order?

What?   

It's good possible that the supplier, your customer, does not know the exact number of packaging units that have to be shipped. In some cases, it's the responsibility of the 3PL/carrier to determine the volumes or even the pick-up date.

Concerns: Transport order functionality on the transport orders tab

When the supplier was not able to pass you the correct N° of packaging units or even NO packaging units at all you can see transport orders in your list with a red bullet with '0' packaging units. 

A transport order without any packaging unit can NOT be shipped. Streamliner calculates the needed resources based upon the N° of packaging units you need to load or unload.  You need to add the packaging units before you can actually create a shipment. 

How: 

Click on the transport order where you need to add the packaging units. See also next article when you need to adapt it. 

Streamliner will change the action from 'Add to basket'

to 'Add packaging units'

Next Step: Adapt the transport order BEFORE you place this in your basket. 

Click on the configuration wheel on the right to edit the transport order of the supplier. Do this with caution and only when you are sure that you have the right data. 

In the section 'Packaging details', you can add or modify any Packaging unit. But you need at least 1 packaging unit before you can use the transport order in a shipment. 

You cannot confirm the transport order if no packaging units are defined. The action 'Assign to carrier' is disabled. 

As soon as you corrected/improved the packaging units, the transport order is ready to be scheduled in a shipment.  The action changes in 'Add to basket.  Well done!