Sales Order Grouped Delivery Lines - Ship Sets

[Former Member]

We have a need to ensure that groups of lines on our sales orders are all created on the same delivery. The order is entered into VA01 and the ATP check is run to schedule. This is fine. However, at the time of delivery creation, a line may not be copied to the delivery for some reason (e.g. no stock in the storage loc). All the other lines pass the requirement check and are created on the delivery.

How do we prevent a delivery from being created with these grouped lines. Is there such a concept as Ship Sets in SAP?

What is the best way to prevent the delivery from being created if certain groups are not complete.

As additional information:

1. There may be several groupings of products on one line. As an example, Group A consists of lines 10, 20 and 30 that must all ship together. Group B consists of lines 40 - 70 that must all ship together.

2. We can identify the grouped lines by the POItem field -- all grouped lines have the same POItem value.

3. One group of lines should not prevent the other from shipping. In our example, Group B must be shipped even if Group A cannot be delivered.

Thank you in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If all the Group items are not delivered at a time eventhouh the Delivery date is same that means you dont have stock for the materials which are not coming into delivery.

You cant stop total group for not being delivered if some lines are not delivering. You have to ensure the stocks of all the line items of that group. If you have the stock ( Which are not confirmed by any other order or delivery ) then you can delivery all the group items at a time.

Some times eventhough stock is there it will say that there is no stock for that material. That means whatever the stock is available for that material which is already confirmed by other orders / deliveries but PGI is not done.

So you have to ensure the stock for all the group items for at a time delivery. ( When the delivery date and shipping point and ship to party is same)

Hope this gives you some idea.

REWARD IF HELPFUL.

Regards,

Praveen

[Former Member]

Thanks for the clarification. It looks as if standard SAP cannot do what I need. In Oracle there is a concept called "Ship Sets" which will not allow a delivery to be created for a defined set of materials unless they are all available and error free.

[Former Member]

hi Pam,

You could write your logic in requirement 108 (the delivery due index) in transaction vofm - requirements - subsequent functions.

rgds

Jitesh

[Former Member]

Than you for the response, Karan. All these things are the same, however, there are times when certain order lines in the same group are not carried onto the delivery even though they are scheduled for the same date. (stock in the wrong storage loc, for example) In that case the group is incomplete and we do not want the delivery to be created until all the grouped lines are created on the same delivery note.

Any help for this?

[Former Member]

Hi Pamela,

The splitting of delivery depends upon the delivery date,ship to party and incoterms.

If all these things are same for all the items the delivery will be same otherwise different.

Regards

Karan