The SSCC label prints as the internal package label, a Business Central report that Dynamic Ship produces for each package as it is built in the Package Worksheet. The layout is selected based on the customer and ship-to address, so different trading partners can receive different label formats without the packer choosing. The number carried on that label, the SSCC itself, comes from your own GS1 company prefix or from your EDI provider, not from the shipping app.
Where the Label Fits in the Packing Flow
The label is a step inside packing rather than a separate task. As packages are built in the Package Worksheet, whether by scanning items into boxes, building pallets and cartons in a hierarchy, or entering packages manually, each package is a record with its own contents, weight, and dimensions. Printing the internal package label for that package produces the labeled unit. Every menu action in the Package Worksheet also has a scannable command equivalent, so a packing station operator can print the label without leaving the scanner, and the full command set can be printed as a barcode sheet for the station.
That hierarchy matters for EDI. A pallet that contains cartons that contain items is exactly the structure an advance ship notice has to describe, and building it during packing is what makes the transaction possible later. Dynamic Ship captures package level detail as part of packing, and that detail is what an ASN draws on.
Where the Label Layouts Come From
There are two paths. Dynamic Ship includes a library of trading partner label layouts that can be used as supplied or as a starting point, and connections are available to EDI provider interfaces that expose that provider’s own label library for printing from inside Business Central. If a trading partner is not covered by either, the layout is a standard Business Central report layout: copy the closest existing layout, adjust it in Word to the partner’s specification, and select it for that customer and ship-to address. No report designer work and no vendor involvement is required to add a layout.
What Dynamic Ship Does Not Supply
Be precise about the number itself, because this is where projects go wrong. An SSCC is an eighteen digit GS1 identification key built from your licensed GS1 company prefix, and no software can mint one on your behalf without that license. Dynamic Ship prints the label and captures the package structure behind it. Your GS1 license supplies the number space, and your EDI provider typically supplies both the compliance validated label and the transmission of the matching ASN. Several major EDI providers have built their own integrations to Dynamic Ship for exactly that reason. The label and the ASN are only useful as a pair, since the label carries a serial reference rather than any product data, and the ASN is what tells the receiving dock what is inside the unit.
Relevant Tools
Dynamic Ship builds the package hierarchy during packing, prints the internal package label that serves as the SSCC label, and selects the layout by customer and ship-to address.
License Plating creates the internal license plate for a mixed pallet, box, or container, including nested units and mixed lot or serial numbers, which is the pack structure an ASN has to describe.
An EDI provider integration supplies the compliance validated label formats where required and transmits the advance ship notice that resolves each SSCC to its contents.
In practice, SSCC labeling is a shared responsibility. Dynamic Ship owns the packing structure and the printing, your GS1 license owns the number, and your EDI provider owns compliance and transmission. Projects that map those three responsibilities early tend not to discover a gap during a trading partner test.