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Revert site shipment to previous status

In IWRS, you can manage all the shipments between the sites and depots involved in your study. Managing a shipment means reflecting its current delivery status in the system on the applicant's and supplier's side: the supplier has to confirm the shipment dispatch from the site, while the applicant must acknowledge full or partial shipment receipt, or that the shipment is lost.

Tip

In IWRS, for the site to be entitled to send items as a supplier, you need to enable site-to-site shipments.

There can be cases when a shipment is mistakenly marked as sent, received, or rejected in IWRS due to a human error or other circumstances. You can fix that mistake by reverting the current shipment status to the previous one.

This helps you avoid situations where items that have yet to be received are already accounted for in the site inventory, taken into dispensation, or included in the shipment to another applicant.

You can revert the following shipment processing actions:

Important

You cannot revert the shipment status if at least one of the items has already been resupplied to another destination or dispensed to the subject.

Status revert error example
Figure 1. Status revert error example

To revert a site shipment to the previous status
  1. In the IWRS application header, select the SITE tab.

  2. On the Site List page that opens, in the table, go to the site for which you want to manage the shipment.

    Selecting site to open its details
    Figure 2. Selecting site to open its details

  3. On the page that opens, in the left pane, select the Shipment subtab.

    Accessing site shipments
    Figure 3. Accessing site shipments

  4. In the Shipment List table that appears, locate the shipment whose status you need to revert and select the Shipment Number value.

    Selecting shipment number
    Figure 4. Selecting shipment number

  5. On the Details page that opens, view your shipment details as explained in the table of the View site shipment details and status section.

  6. Go to the Item Details block and, based on the current shipment status, select one of the following:

    • UNDO DISPATCH: select this button to return the shipment that is marked by the supplier as already shipped to the Requested status, hence, discarding the item dispatch at the supplier's side.

    • UNDO RECEIPT: select this button to return the shipment that is marked by the applicant as already received or lost to the previous status—In Transit or Requested—based on your study configurations. This action discards the item receipt at the applicant's side.

    • UNDO REJECTION: select this button to return the shipment that is rejected by the applicant to the previous status—In Transit or Requested—based on your study configurations. This action also automatically revokes the return shipment generated by the system upon rejection.

    Example of undoing previous action with shipment
    Figure 5. Example of undoing previous action with shipment

  7. In the confirmation dialog that appears, select confirm_button_white_red.png to proceed with the status revert.

    Confirming action reversion
    Figure 6. Confirming action reversion

Once confirmed, the status of the shipment is reverted to the previous one. The items within the shipment obtain their respective statuses—return to the supplier's inventory if the dispatch is canceled or return to being in transit if the receipt is reverted.