This activity is used to block automatic connection of more source lines for a shipment. This is beneficial when you want to prepare and finalize what is already connected to the shipment. This activity can be executed either manually or automatically. Whether or not to block automatic connection automatically, is controlled by the shipment type of the shipment. In the shipment type, you can define that automatic connection should be blocked for a shipment at the execution of a main activity in the shipment flow e.g. reservation, report picking etc. It is still possible to manually connect more source lines to a shipment when automatic connection is blocked.
When you manually block automatic connection of more source lines, this can be done per shipment or for all shipments connected to a consolidated shipment. A consolidated shipment is considered as one departure of several shipments from a specific site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments e.g., multiple shipments are loaded on the same truck and unloaded to each delivery address by the same truck.