Shipping, crates & finishing

How to build a shipping list for a curtain wall job

A curtain wall shipping list should be project-level and grow as products are scanned into crates — not rebuilt in Excel the night before the truck. Spectr manages outgoing shipments that way and can produce bills of lading and packing documents from the same list.

See this on your jobs Shipping lists

Key facts

Retyping a fabrication complete list into a ship list is how marks go missing.
Spectr’s shipping dashboard shows crate counts, packing progress, and carriers without a meeting.
Sequence should match install, not shop convenience.
Service-provider returns (paint, anodize) have to land on the list before you promise a truck.

How shops handle this

Open the shipping list when the phase is real
Do not wait until the dock is full.
Scan products into crates on that list
The list is an outcome of packing, not a wish.
Assign the carrier and the site window
The dashboard should show what is loaded vs ready.
Print logistics docs from the list
BOL and packing paperwork should not be a third spreadsheet.

Common questions

Multiple trucks for one elevation?

Multiple shipments on the same project list. Each needs contents.

Who closes the list?

Shipping. Production should not mark “shipped” because they boxed it.

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