Mass Shipment, adding lines with no Inventory OnHand

Epicor ERP 10
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Hi!
We are using Mass Shipments in Customer Shipment Entry. Our system is set up to Stop if the transaction will result on a negative quantity.

Our process is that we create a New Pack > Type the Order Number > Press the Mass Shipment button > Ship All > Update (Save).

When you hit update (or save) and if there’s a line that will result on a negative quantity, you’ll get the following error:

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If I change the quantity on the line to 0, and click update/save, then the line is removed.

I know and tested, that we can manually add an Order Line to the Pack and set the Ship Quantity to 0 just to note that this line will Ship, but the material is not available yet.

Once we get the material, we go back and adjust the quantity and then Ship Confirm. If we try to Ship Confirm with a line with Ship Qty = 0, we get an error until we fix the Quantity or delete the line. This seems to work for us and prevent us of forgetting steps in the process.

So the question is:
Is there any way, setup parameter to make these lines with 0 pcs stay on a Mass Shipment?

Thanks!!
Luis Heredia

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Possibly you could turn off the setting… and replace the stop logic with a BPM, and allow certain ProcessIDs?

Hmmm… as I remember you could not do this in V8 or E9.
I never tried in E10, wonder if Epicor intended to allow ship qty of zero “by design” now or if it would be considered a bug?

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We figure out a way to do a Paste Insert on the Pack Line with the folllowing fields Order, Line, Rel, and OurInvQty = 0. That allowed us to add all the lines we needed for the shipment. When everything gets into Stock then we go to the CSE > Summary screen and click “Ship All” and “Update”.