In plain English
It describes an incoming delivery that arrives with fewer goods than expected. The expected amount is the quantity ordered or the quantity shown on the shipping papers.
In context
Here, it classifies the delivery as having fewer goods than the quantity stated on the expected paperwork.
- Situation
- Managing warehouse receiving, inventory, picking, packing, and dispatch
- What it communicates
- classifies a delivery as short against the expected paperwork quantity.
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say why the quantity is lower or whether the stated quantity was correct.
Examples
“The receiver logged a short shipment when the cartons contained 180 valves instead of the 200 shown on the delivery note.”
“Please mark the load as a short shipment if the truck arrives with fewer boxes than the shipping papers list.”