Shipping list

A delivery (also accompanying the goods) is a document that gives information about the delivered goods. In the ideal case, the goods documented agree both with the actual goods receipt and the invoiced on the bill approaches. Delivery notes contain, for example, the number of pieces, weight, and the delivery date. In addition, a delivery note is a legal document. In Germany it must be retained for six years at merchants in accordance with § 147 AO. In the case of a mixture between invoice and delivery note on a document reaches the higher retention period of the bill of ten years.

For the issue of delivery notes, there are no legal requirements. There is an obligation to timely billing, but not to give the recipient of the goods is also a delivery note.

In many industries, continues in the shipping business between the electronic delivery through. Pioneer of this type of evidence is the automotive industry, where this is carried out for years. When electronic delivery, the data are already using the electronic exchange of data transmitted immediately after the shipment of goods to a flow pattern exactly agreed directly to the recipient, so that it is informed in advance which goods are delivered accurately.

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