LM30 shipment status

[Former Member]

Good day everyone,

i've got an issue regarding the loading of a shipment by transaction code LM30 (new functionality which we want to implement).

Here automatically the  status 'planned' is set for the shipment. This means there can be no deliveries added to the shipment without removing the planned status manually, adding a delivery to the shipment and then save the shipment again.

Next to that in the current situation we have an external shipment planning application which sorts the shipments by route in the morning causing a initial planning (no planned status is set) then at the end of the day sometimes a delivery is added to the shipment (this is possible since no 'planned' status' is set) and all the shipments of the day are sent to the external planning application again, including the new deliveries, the the routes are scheduled again and the shipments are send back to SAP again updating the shipmentstatus with 'planned'.

When starting LM30 the planned status is set which causes that the external planning application cannot update the shipments anymore.

Does anyone have a solution for that?

THANKS!!

[MANIS]

it is more towards operation rather then system since as per your external planning application the shipment should not be planned status you need to decide whether you want to use LM30 after the external planning application update the status or

you can design a custom transaction similar to LM30 and before start operation in LM30  write a piece of code to check the status of the shipment if shipment status is not "planned " then it should not allow you to enter the handling unit or

after entering the shipment number it should check the status and populate a error message if the status is not planned

[Former Member]

HI Manish,

it is a combination of process and sap solution indeed. In the morning they create a initial planning with all the deliveries which are assigned to the shipments towards PTV (the external routing application) then the read it back to SAP without setting the planned status. Then they add last minute deliveries in SAP and send it to PTV againg to make a definitive planning. This definitive routing of the deliveries in the shipments are send back to SAP and the planned status is set in the shipment.

With the LM30 solution the planned status is automatically set once a employee starts loading the shipment. Then 2 problems occur, 1 you cannot add last miniute deliveries anyomore without removing the planned and loading statusses and 2 once the planned status is set PTV cannot update the shipments anymore because of this status.

Can you once please share your thoughts about a possible solution?

Thanks!

[MANIS]

The problem statement is " This definitive routing of the deliveries in the shipments are send back to SAP and the planned status is set in the shipment." Here the main question is whether you want to start loading activity (LM30) once you get the route information from PTV or before that. (from operational perspective/ best practice also once you have a definite route plan then only you should start the loading activity)

if the plan is to start the loading activity once the PTV updates the Shipment then there is no change in the system require

if the plan is to start the loading activity before the PTV updates the shipment then you can design a custom transaction similar to LM30 and the moment you enter the shipment number custom program should first check the status of shipment and populate a error message if the status is not "planned" or if you want to go ahead with this then you have to make the change in the IDoc program which updates the status of shipment when you receive from PTV (in this case the program should ignore the value)

[Former Member]

Hi Manish,

would you know a transaction code/report which should the loading status, nr of handling units already loaded in the shipment etc. to be used for monitoring current loadingstatusses?

[MANIS]

you can use Handling unit Monitor(T-code : HUMO) to get that detail

[Former Member]

Thanks Manish,

but i am not certain if i can get all the info i need.

Actually i need a combination of information which is displayed in transactions LM35, LM36 and LM37 so an overview of shipments which shows this information per shipment. So how far the warehouse clercks are with the loading of a specific HU whith in a shipment (LM35), what the loading status of a handling unit within a delivery is (LM36) and what the loading status of the deliveries within the shipment are (LM37). Is there a standard report for that? It seems HUMO is more based on individual shipments right? THANKS

[MANIS]

you can explore this by just entering the shipment number / numbers  in the Tab Assigned to object on the HUM selection screen

[Former Member]

Hi Manish, in the output i dont find all the data displayed in LM35/LM36/LM37. Strange is that there are fields availble about the shipment but not the shipmentnumber???

Is there a transaction which shows something like this:

Shipment

Loadingstatus   shipment

Text status   shipment

Delivery

Nr of HU's

Loadingstatus   delivery

Handling unit

Loadingstatus HU

Total weight

Weight uom

Total volume

Volume uom

Thanks

[MANIS]

with standard no such report format exist,you need to look for custom report