A shipment pro forma invoice can be printed and accompany goods where for some reason the real invoice cannot be accessed or used. Note that the title itself is only printed as a pro forma invoice, since this is the standard naming for an invoice that is only used for customs purposes. When the shipment is in Complete status, if there is any quantity that is actually delivered, that will be shown as the pro forma invoice delivered quantity, else the picked quantity will be shown as the delivered quantity. For non-inventory parts, the non inventory quantity to be delivered will be shown as the pro forma invoice delivered quantity. The invoice will only state the address where the goods are to be delivered as consignee address. For each line a customs value reflecting the base currency will be printed as well as the customs statistics number and net weight. The net weight, gross weight and volume are also summarized as totals together with the customs value.
This activity can be executed either manually or automatically. Whether or not to print a shipment pro forma invoice automatically, is controlled by the shipment type of the shipment. In the shipment type, it can be defined that a shipment pro forma invoice should be printed at execution of a main activity in the shipment flow e.g. delivery, closure. This activity can be executed manually either per shipment or for all shipments connected to a consolidated shipment. A consolidated shipment is defined as one departure of several shipments from the specified site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments. When executed from the consolidated shipment the shipment pro forma invoice for all connected shipments are printed in reversed load sequence order to get the pro forma invoices in unloading order.