I’m looking for some ideas. We will ship one part number on multiple trucks due to size and weight. We need a way to create multiple packing slips and track each truck shipment in Epicor.
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So are you saying that you’re shipping pieces of a part? Or are you shipping the completely assembled part?
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So the single part number is in multiple pieces? If that’s the case, I would probably create that part as a Sales Kit, with the individual pieces making up the components on the BOM. If you make sure Ship Kit Complete is set to false, you could add the kit components to different shipments.
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We are shipping pieces of a part.
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Do you think @kve 's suggestion is viable or no?
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A very dirty way to do it is to create a UOM in there that is 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 or 1/5 of EA and then you can ship off 1 qty of “1/3 UOM” which will account to .333333333333333333 ea… Again… very very very dirty.
Or if your UOM allows decimals already you could ship off 0.5 or 0.25 EA… Again not clean.
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@hackaphreaka , I have always wished for the enhancement to be able to ship subassemblies from a job because all the logic is there to account for what each subassembly equates to in terms of the final assembly quantity (the part on the sales order/0-level part).
In a way it’s sales kits as @kve points out.
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I don’t know anything about sales kits so I can’t visualize it. 
If I understand @Bfabus 's issue correctly, they want to sell and bill for the finished good part, but the fg part is so large it doesn’t realistically fit inside one logistical shipping unit so it also does not fit inside one pack ID.
Because of that, I don’t believe putting the FG part in the Pack ID is technically correct.
If I were trying to solve this I think I would broach the subject of selling/shipping/billing for the component parts.
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@hackaphreka That is correct. We sell and bill for the finished good part and it is so large that it won’t fit on one trailer or we need to disassemble pieces due to size to ship. The parts that we disassemble to ship have been issued to the job or they might be part of a sub assembly that doesn’t have a part number.
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My old boss used to say ‘I should have gotten into the jewelry business’ all the time, I really get it now.
e: @Bfabus are you assembling the part and then taking it apart again to ship it?
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So, this is a workaround to keep you from have to getting into the Sales Kits, which will make your shipping from a Job much more complicated:
You could try adding Parts-on-the-fly (or even “placeholder” parts) to the same sales order for the additional shipments. Make the order lines $0.00 total value, and add line descriptions for what “component” of the main job part. When you’re shipping, add each one as a separate pack with it’s own tracking. The additional packs should invoice at $0, and they’d all be related to the same SO # for reference purposes.
Optionally, you could use the Master Pack Shipment Entry to combine all of those packs into a single Master Pack. I’ve never used Master Pack so I don’t know if this is necessary, but it’s a way to group your Packs.
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Straight out of the box, all we have are not-so-great to terrible solutions.
Another not-so-great idea (and I’m running into this issue right now with a similar situation, “qty 1” items the size of a jumbo jet) might be to have the Customer Shipment pack slip show the quantity of 1 (which will relieve WIP of the quantity and make the invoicing available), and then use Miscellaneous Pack Slips to create the “actual” shipping docs. On the Misc Shipment form you can link Order number.
I have NOT tested this out, and it probably has holes the size of the aforementioned jumbo jet, but it can probably be a workable solution.
This would work with the Master Packs as well, I believe.
Master Packs (or Phantom Packs) require a part number and a quantity.
They don’t allow POTF?
You’d still have the problem of WIP relief and shipment invoicing IF the “original” customer shipment didn’t show the full quantity. Those issues can also be worked around, but it would need to have a different process.
I used to work for a company with this requirement. The way we did it was to go ahead and ship the one part as a single line on customer shipment entry. Then we would go create a separate misc shipment for each truck load. The misc shipment would list the individual materials/assemblies on each particular truck, and we could get a detailed packing slip that way. It worked because the misc shipment doesn’t trigger an inventory transaction.
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