"multiple shipments" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation in which several shipments of goods or materials are sent out, received, or tracked at the same time. For example: "The company was responsible for managing multiple shipments of raw materials each week."
SI.com reported yesterday that Glaus received "multiple shipments" of the steroids nandrolone and testosterone from the same pharmacy from September 2003 to May 2004.
Blue Jays third baseman Troy Glaus reportedly received multiple shipments of steroids from September 2003 to May 2004, and Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis was reportedly sent shipments of steroids during 2003 and 2004.
On Sunday, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Byrd received multiple shipments of H.G.H. and syringes between 2002 and 2005 from an anti-aging clinic for nearly $25,000.
After investigators bought multiple shipments of counterfeit drugs, Mr. Xu traveled to Houston "to consummate an agreement for widespread distribution of his counterfeit products in the United States," according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
Such authorizations may cover a broad range of defined activities in support of such programs including multiple shipments of defense articles and technical data and performance of defense services for extended periods, and re-exports to approved end users.
Others did not, or — as in the case of some municipalities in Bergen County, N.J. — could not because their salt sheds are not large enough to hold an entire winter's worth and therefore require multiple shipments, said Mabel Aragon, a county spokeswoman.
Ha and Kim (1997) further generalized Goyal's (1988) model and presented an integrated lot splitting model of facilitating multiple shipment in small lots.
It is further assumed that a multiple shipment policy is employed and the finished items can only be delivered to customers if the whole lot is quality assured at the end of rework.
Very quickly this caused a myriad of supply issues due to multiple rejected shipments and so we set out to switch to one single, world leading, toothbrush manufacturer".
In this research hub operations are modeled as a GI/G/1 queuing network and the shipments as multiple job classes with deterministic routings.
By the early 1990s, though, it had encountered a powerful new breed of customer with no patience for the multiple salespersons, invoices, and shipments that resulted from doing business with more than one of the company's roughly 200 operating units.
