Shipments
Goods going out — one posting model serving sales orders, returns, and transfers.
A shipment moves goods out the door. One shipment model serves several source documents: a , a purchase order, an outbound transfer. Each is tagged by what it came from, so the same posting logic handles them all.
Creating a shipment changes nothing on hand. it is the event that matters: it relieves inventory, advances the source document, and, when accounting is enabled, books the cost of what left. A shipment can be partial, so an order can go out in several.
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Status
Posting decrements inventory and bumps the source line's sent quantity; a sales order line's sent complete flag flips only once the cumulative shipped quantity reaches the ordered quantity. Posting a shipment does not create the — billing is a separate step.