Generating a shipping manifest

Shipping manifests contain an overview of the contents of a shipment, and are intended to be printed and included with shipments.

About this task

A shipping manifest should be printed and included with all shipments. This will help the laboratory receiving the shipment to identify its contents and match it to the shipping file that you provided to them. You can also save the manifest as a PDF file, and then send it to the receiving laboratory long with the shipping file.

The shipping manifest can be generated before or after a shipment is sent.

Figure: A typical shipping manifest. (1) The shipment number, (2) The date that the shipment was initially created, (3) Sending laboratory’s contact information, (4) Shipment carrier and tracking information (5) Receiving laboratory’s contact information, (6) Name of shipping container, (7) Specimens in the shipping container

1. Do one of the following:
   • For pending shipments, click Shipping > Pending Shipments from the menu bar.
   • For sent shipments, click Shipping > Shipment History from the menu bar.
2. Locate the shipment for which you want to generate a manifest.
3. Click the arrow next to the View button to the right of the shipment, and then click Generate Manifest.
4. Select PDF from the File type box.
   Because manifests are intended to be printed, they have been designed with PDF output in mind only. If you select a different file format for the manifest, you may experience formatting issues.