AI(401) Consignment Number.

Data Title: CONSIGNMENT

Checksum : No

Date : No

Digits Support : Yes

ISO Country : No

ISO Currency : No

Letter Support : Yes

Min. Length : 1 digit/letter

Max. Length : 30 digits/letters

Month : No

Time : No

Year : No

FNC1 Reuired: Yes

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AI(401) is assigned to identify a logical grouping of goods (one of more physical entities) that has been consigned to a freight forwarder and is intended to be transported as a whole. The consignment number must be allocated by a freight forwarder (or carriers acting as a freight forwarder) or a consignor, but only if the prior agreement of the freight forwarder is given.

- A freight forwarder is a party that arranges the carriage of goods including connected services and/or associated formalities on behalf of a shipper or consignee.

- A carrier is a party that undertakes the transportation of goods from one point to another

- A consignor is the party that sends the goods

Normally AI(401) is used in conjunction with AI(00) - Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC). The SSCC individually identifies each parcel being part of a shipment. The consignment number may be marked on the different components of a shipment to provide a common reference. The GS1 Company Prefix used is the one belonging to the carrier. If you have obtained a prefix to allocate twelve-digit GTINs either directly from GS1 US, GS1 Canada or via GS1 Australia, you must add a filler zero to the front of the prefix after the Application Identifier.

The Consignment Information is assigned at the discretion of the organisation issuing the number. The consignment number may be processed as stand-alone information where applicable or with other identification data appearing on the same unit.

Note: If a new consignment is created, previous consignment data must be removed from the physical units.

For more information please contact your GS1 office in you country.

Please Note!

FNC1: All GS1 Application Identifiers of variable length shall be delimited unless this Element String is the last one to be encoded in the symbol.