Enterprise shipping is not some mysterious corporate function. In fact, it is exactly what it sounds like. It is the process of shipping performed at a level visible to any management person or employee who has been given the permissions to perform the shipping task, or see the shipping information at a corporate level.
Enterprise shipping goes beyond the normal, “I have a package and now I need to ship it” type of processing. In this situation, shipping is not a just a function of the warehouse, it is a process driven by the enterprise. There must be planning in place for how to get the information required for shipment processing, how to use the information to create business rules to ship the order properly, and how to route correctly the results of what has shipped to the appropriate data storage locations in the enterprise.
A new enterprise shipping system needs to be able to handle existing company requirements and processes as well as being scalable upward and across the enterprise. An enterprise shipping system purchase should be the last purchase required by any company. The ability to handle the work load to an infinite level is an important requirement of any enterprise shipping system.