General Rules:
Aggregation occurs during shipment processing and batch processing.
The following fields must match exactly for aggregation: Company or Name, Street, City or Town, Postal Code, and Country/Territory. In addition to these fields, the Reference Number, shipment Quantum View Notify, Handling Charge, and Delivery Confirmation fields must match exactly only if you select each item under World Ease Child Shipment Aggregation on the World Ease tab (see Aggregate UPS World Ease Child Shipments.).
In PGXY mode (that is, print X of Y values as you process each package in a child shipment), several fields in the Shipping window become inactive when you add a package and the new child shipment matches an existing child shipment on the selected master shipment. See Inactive Fields in PGXY Mode.
When you combine a new child shipment with an existing child shipment, some of the existing child shipment fields overwrite the new child shipment fields.
Both the new and existing child shipments either must have commodities or not have any commodities. The commodities for both shipments will be combined during aggregation.
The Shipment History window shows the aggregated child shipments and the final aggregated cost. (The Shipping window only shows the pre-aggregated costs of the child shipments.)
If you repeat an aggregated child shipment with different numbers for Reference Number 1 and Reference Number 2, the numbers on the first package are also shown for all other packages in the shipment.
Printing Labels and Documents:
When printing labels, the numbering is relative to the number of packages before aggregation of the new child shipment with the existing child shipment. For instance, if the new child shipment has three packages, the labels are numbered 1 of 3, 2 of 3, etc. regardless of how many packages are on the existing child shipment.
When reprinting labels, the numbering is relative to the number of packages after aggregation (that is, the labels are renumbered). For instance, if the original child shipment has two packages and the new child shipment has three packages, the labels are numbered 1 of 5, 2 of 5, etc.
The child invoice prints with the information from the new child shipment only before aggregation occurs.
The Electronic Export Information (EEI) prints with the aggregated shipment information from both the new and existing shipments.
Shipment and Package Options:
The chart shows what happens to shipment and package options when a new child shipment and an existing child shipment are aggregated.
|
Option |
Existing |
New |
Aggregation Result |
|
Quantum View Notify (QVN) |
Y |
N |
Existing child QVN kept. |
|
N |
Y |
New child QVN added to existing child. |
|
|
Y |
Y |
New child QVN added to existing child. (Limit of 5; no more than 2 fax.) |
|
|
Handling Charge (HC) |
Y |
N |
Existing child HC kept. |
|
N |
Y |
New HC not added to existing child. |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Existing child HC kept. |
|
|
Delivery Confirmation (DC) |
Y |
N |
Existing child DC kept. |
|
N |
Y |
New DC not added to existing child. |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Existing child DC kept. |
|
|
Reference Numbers |
Y |
N |
Each package retains its own value; Use on All Packages cleared. |
|
N |
Y |
Each package retains its own value; Use on All Packages cleared. |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Each package retains its own value; Use on All Packages cleared if different and kept if the same. |
|
|
Special Commodities |
Y |
N |
Existing child Special Commodity kept. |
|
N |
Y |
New child Special Commodity added to existing child. |
|
|
Y |
Y |
New and existing child Special Commodity types are combined. |