Shipping is an important part of the logistics chain in which guaranteed customer service and distribution planning support play major roles.
In shipping processing, all delivery procedure decisions can be made at the start of the process by
Taking into account general business agreements with your customer
Recording special material requests
Defining shipping conditions in the sales order
, the outbound delivery supports all shipping activities including picking, packing, transportation and goods issue. During the outbound delivery process, shipping-planning information is recorded, status of shipping activities is monitored and data accumulated during shipping processing is documented. When the outbound delivery is created, the shipping activities, such as picking or delivery scheduling, are initiated, and data that is generated during shipping processing is included in the delivery.
Range of Functions
An outbound delivery can be created as follows:
With reference to a sales order
With reference to a stock transport order
With reference to a subcontract order
With reference to a project
Without any reference
Depending on your requirements, you can create outbound deliveries automatically using worklists, or manually. You can make agreements with your customers for complete and partial deliveries and for order combinations. Outbound deliveries can be combined to form a single group of deliveries.
As soon as the material availability date or the transportation scheduling date for a schedule line is reached, the schedule line becomes due for shipping. When you create an outbound deliver, you initiate shipping activities such as picking and transportation scheduling.
A delivery is processed through one shipping point. Which shipping point carries out the processing for a delivery can be determined automatically during order processing or you can specify it manually in the order.
The system carries out the following activities when an outbound delivery is created:
Checks the order and materials to make sure the outbound delivery is possible (for example, it checks for delivery blocks or incompleteness)
Determines the delivery quantity of an item and checks the availability of the material
Calculates the weight and volume of the delivery
Calculates work expenditure
Packs the outbound delivery according to the reference order
Checks the delivery situation of the order and any partial delivery agreements
Redetermines the route
Adds information relevant for export
Checks delivery scheduling and changes deadlines (if necessary)
Assigns a picking location
Carries out batch determination (if material is to be handled in batches)
Creates an inspection lot if the material must pass a quality check
Updates sales order data and changes order status
A shipping point can be determined for each order item. How the shipping point is determined depends on three factors:
The shipping conditions from the customer master record (Shipping screen)
For example, it might have been agreed with the customer that the goods are to be delivered as soon as possible.
The loading group from the material master record (Sales/Plant Data screen)
You could, for example, specify a loading group that defines that the goods must always be loaded with a crane or a forklift.
The delivering plant
A route can be determined for every order item. Determining the route in the sales order depends on the following factors:
Country and departure zone of the shipping point
Shipping condition from the sales order
For example, it might have been agreed with the customer that the goods are to be delivered as soon as possible.
Transportation group from the material master record (Sales/Plant Data screen)
You can use the transportation group to group together goods with the same characteristics (for example, bulky goods or goods that must be transported in refrigerated trucks).
Country and transportation zone of the ship-to party (Control screen in the customer master record)
You can create a single outbound delivery for exactly one order, if you know the order number. Only the order items from this order that are due for shipment will be included in the delivery. You can make changes to the shipping data, if necessary.
Procedure
To create an individual outbound delivery, proceed as follows:
From shipping, choose Outbound Delivery ® Create ® Single Document ® With Reference to Sales Order.
The initial screen for creating outbound deliveries appears.
Enter the appropriate shipping point.
Specify the selection date.
You can only deliver schedule lines whose material availability date or transportation scheduling date is the same as or falls before the selection date.
The current date is proposed by the system as the selection date.
If you only want to deliver some of the order items, specify the appropriate item numbers in the From item and To item fields.
Select Enter.
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