Organisation structure - Shipping points

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are about to implement SAP for one of our factories, and we are in business modeling stage.

Question: is there any general rule when mapping the needed number of shipping points in a plant, except for "geographical" (if the shipping points are located far away from each other in the warehouse)? Also, is there any way to use LE to minimize the number of shipping points needed? They all have the same factory calendar so there is no need to create multiple shipping points because of that.

The plant would need at least one shipping point for the purpose of shipping/receiving returns/inbound delivery.

Thanks,

Lars

[Former Member]

Hi,

A reason for more than 1 per physical location can also be the transit time which is used in ATP. We've once used 2: 1 for normal order processing and 1 for rush orders which had no transit time. By setting it up like this, we could get orders confirmed 1 day earlier.

Also keep in mind that many customizing tabels have the shipping point as key so when having more, you can differentiate more.

MdZ

[Former Member]

Hi,

As you know Shipping point is also used in determination of Picking location.

In a plant there might be more than one storage location and some of them might be warehouse managed. In case if you are shipping the material from SLOC which is not warehouse managed and also from the SLOC which is warehouse managed; in that case better to have 2 shipping points.

So that in Sales document once you have Shipping Point1 then the SLOC is 0001 which is warehouse managed and when Shipping Point2 is used then the SLOC is 0002 which is not warehouse managed.