NetSuite Ship Central
NetSuite Ship Central enables shipping capabilities and shipping carrier integration within your NetSuite account. It also provides the app that lets you pack and ship orders through a tablet or kiosk device. Based on your fulfillment requirements, you can pack or ship through the app or NetSuite UI. When you ship orders, you can process those packed through the app or NetSuite UI, separately. Without packing capabilities in your account, you can process orders for shipping only.
NetSuite Ship Central, together with SCM Mobile, extends packing and shipping capabilities to enable you to:
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Pack items into cartons and transfer packed cartons onto pallets
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Identify picked items across multiple orders for a customer and pack them at the same time
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Ship through carriers that you integrate with your NetSuite ShipEngine account
If you want to enable shipping on the app, you must create a ShipEngine account within NetSuite. Accounts created outside of NetSuite cannot be integrated with Ship Central. For more information about the NetSuite ShipEngine account, see https://www.shipengine.com/netsuite/.
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View estimated and actual shipping costs for a variety of shipping services and options
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Gain visibility into which items are packed across multiple cartons or pallets and shipped out of your location
NetSuite Ship Central provides the following packing and shipping capabilities through the mobile app, some of which depend on your carrier:
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Ship Central Packing |
Ship Central Shipping |
Carrier-Specific Shipping Options |
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Packing items into cartons ✗ Does not include cartonization, which automatically selects box types for specific items and box sizes ✗ Does not support picking and packing directly into shipping boxes |
Local and international shipping ✗ Does not support LTL/freight, pallets |
Single and multi-package shipping Carrier-provided shipping insurance Saturday delivery Package codes Two additional shipment references Home delivery, with residential address validation Advanced shipping options Shipping to military PO boxes and US territories -Includes USPS domestic shipping to US territories |
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Transferring packed cartons into pallets |
Third-party and recipient billing Rate shopping for shipments -Includes rate shopping for orders or order lines on the NetSuite UI -With option to get the best shipping rate Shipping cost distribution |
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Packing instructions for items or orders Packing by waves created through NetSuite WMS |
Address validation Delivery confirmation Non-delivery instructions for international shipments |
Third-party billing for FedEx Ground COLLECT USPS Canada Delivered Duty Paid |
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* Printing of packing labels, lists, and BOL -Customizable labels and lists |
* Printing of shipping labels, return labels, and documents -Includes certificate of origin and commercial invoice, whether printable or electronically submitted -With option to generate multiple shipping manifests -With option to print default company logo -With option to print return labels during or after shipping |
* Automatic printing of UPS Control Log for packages valued above 1000 USD |
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* Capturing item weights from weighing scales |
Voiding of shipping and return labels |
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* Requires PrintNode integration for capturing of weights, manual or automatic printing, as well as reprinting on the NetSuite UI -Without PrintNode integration, you can save a soft copy of labels or documents. -If available from your carrier and shipping service, shipping documents may be submitted electronically instead, during shipping label generation and printing through the app. |
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For more information about integration with ShipEngine or PrintNode, see NetSuite Ship Central FAQs.
Watch the following video for an overview of packing and shipping:
Availability
The NetSuite Ship Central SuiteApp is shared with accounts that use either Warehouse Management or Advanced Inventory Management. For assistance with licensing requirements, contact your NetSuite account manager.
Supported Transactions and Item Types
NetSuite Ship Central supports the following types of transactions and items:
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Sales and transfer orders in Pending Fulfillment status
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With picking and packing capabilities, item fulfillments in Picked status for packing and in Packed status for shipping
You can ship orders packed through the NetSuite UI or WMS separately from those packed through the Ship Central app.
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Items that belong to the following supported item types:
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Inventory and assembly items, including, matrix, lot numbered, and serialized items
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Kit/package items and item groups
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Non-inventory items and, if you use Warehouse Management, service items
To pack both types, items must be fulfillable and either for sale or for resale.
The following item types cannot be assigned tariff codes, so they cannot be shipped internationally: service item for resale and service item for sale.
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Items that ship individually, if enabled on the item record
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HazMat or dangerous goods items, if enabled on the item record
This option applies to inventory and assembly items only that you want to ship locally through USPS.
For more information about item settings, see Creating Items for Ship Central.
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For more information, see the following topics: