When a Group Shipment is processed, each shipment is processed one at a time in the same order as contained in the group. Since a group is a list of addresses, individual shipments are created corresponding to each address in the group. The processing continues until all addresses in the group are picked up for shipping. The Group Shipment processing cannot be stopped until completion. You can specify the time-out duration for individual shipment processing in a Group in Shipment time out period (sec) field on the Application tab.

Warning: When you carry out the following procedure, menus remain active during this process. However, do not attempt to select any other options from the menus until Parcel has finished processing the group shipment.
To process a Group Shipment, do the following:

1. From the Warehouse page , click the Receiver tab.

2. On the Receiver tab, complete the following:

   In this box...	Do this...
   Customer Code	Type Group ID as entered in address book or click Search to select a Group ID from the address book.
   Country	The field gets auto-populated with the value 'Group' to indicate that the value entered in Customer Code is a Group ID.
   Company/Name	The field gets auto-populated with Group Name as per the Group ID entered in the Customer Code field.

   The remaining address fields on the Receiver tab are disabled as addresses contained in the group are automatically picked up from the address book.

3. If you want the group shipment to act as a template shipment, then check To Batch to create the shipment as a Batch Shipment . Select the batch name in which the shipment will be added from the scroll-down list. For more information on this, see Including Group Shipments in a Batch .

4. Click SHIP to start Group Shipment processing.
   Parcel displays a progress bar that enables you to track the progress of the group shipment. (Note that Parcel processes the entire group as a unit for greater efficiency.)
   After group processing has completed, the current status and results of Group Shipment processing are displayed in a separate window known as the Processing Group window.

5. Optionally, use the buttons at the bottom of the Processing Group window as follows:

   Click this button...	To...
   Show Failed	Display all failed shipments. This check box is checked by default.
   Show Successful	Display all successful shipments.
   EDIT	Edit the details of a failed shipment. This [EDIT] is enabled only for failed shipments.
   CLOSE	Close the window. On clicking [CLOSE], following pop-up windows appear: To put the Group Shipment on Hold: This pop-up window prompts you to choose whether you want to add the failed shipments "To Hold". Make the appropriate selections based on your requirements. Such a shipment can then be opened and shipped later on. Refer to topic Release a Shipment From Hold for steps to follow to release a shipment that is put "On Hold.