Regarding Shipping conditions

[Former Member]

Hi

Can anybody tell

shippingpoint determinatoin takes place with the help of shipping conditionsdelivering plantloading group , in that shipping conditions are taken from customer master or sales document type. If shipping conditions are assigned to customer master & sales document type , the system takes shipping conditions from sales document type by priority . My question is why system takes shipping conditions from sales document rather than from customer master record. from where is the control lies

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Bhavana

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hi,

the purpose we are configuring related to SD should determine at the sales order.

So whatever we customize interms of shipping conditions etc., should be linked to sales document type. then according to the order type it will act.

So once you have assigned to sales document type is at the header level.where as in customer master data what you are maintaining the shipping condition is upto item level for the particular customer.

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regards

KR

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

Why system takes shipping conditions from sales document type.while determining shipping point.

[Former Member]

hi,

1. shipping point is basically a delivery unit (it means start of the route), - it can be many in plant but delivery can happen at one shipping point.

2. where as shipping condition, it differs according the sales document. (we will assigning the shipping condition to the plantloading groupshipping point)

ex: in normal sales order OR, generally u will find a option shipping condition is blank, it means standard. whereas in the cash order (CS) or rush order (RO)u will find a shipping condition as 10 - means immediate. so these kind of purpose only we maintain shipping condition and assign it to sales document header level thru VOV8.

i hope ur issue will be resolved

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regards

KR

[Former Member]

Hi Bhavana,

Assume a customer with the shipping condition as "next day" in the customer master record requesting a rush order. Also assume a plant with multiple shipping points, one used to dispatch the immediate deliveries and the other normal deliveries.

When the customer request for a rush order the delivery should happen immediately irrespective of the shipping condition assigned to the customer. So instead of changing the customer master record, SAP has given us an option to maintain the shipping condition at the document types also.

In scenario like rush order and cash sale this shipping condition would come in handy. This is a case used in one of my previous project too.

Regards

Nadarajah Pratheb

[Former Member]

Hi Bhavana

There are three main types of "source of truths" ( ie. source of data) in SD.

1. Customizing data.

2. Master data.

3. Manual Data.

Customizing data has the highest priority over master data. This is not only true for shipping conditions but any other field common in both customizing and master data.The manual entry can override the default entries.

Then there are fields which are linked to other modules like FI . The fields are controlled through FI module. for eg : Payment Gaurantee Procedure (PGP).

PGP is used both in Order types during customizing and maintained in customer master record.Now which of them to be used is decided by receivable srisk management.

[bcrao]

hi,

priorities like shipping conditions, plants and credit control area, these are hard coded abap controls given by sap by defaults where we can set multiple assignments in diff areas.

ask abapers if need

[Former Member]

hi

To facilitate the difference between various sales document types the shipping conditions are determined by sales document type rush order should have immediate delivery and sales order doesn't need.

where as in customer master data we can propose only one shipping condition.

so the system takes shipping conditions from sales document type

the system takes shipping conditions from sales document type and have priority than those in CMR it is because useful for returns processing.

To have greater traceability in returns . A returns delivery must be made with a shipping point that represents incoming goods. As it would not be recommended to have same shipping point for returns or receiving goods as u do for out bound deliveries. Hence u can assign a returns sales document type their own returns shipping conditions.

And also a customer can place normal sales order and rush order for this when customer places a rush order the delivery should be immediate so we have to assign shipping conditions to sales document type has priority than CMR

[Former Member]

Hi,

According to me for a particular customer then can be various scenarios. Like the same customer is doing normal sales and also consignment sales, sometimes we may do free of charge delivery that should reach the customer at the earliest. So if for all scenarios we want different shipping points - the rest like plant and loading group being the same then the shipping conditions fetched from the document type will help us to determine the different shipping points because in the customer master we can enter only one shipping condition at a time.

That is why the shipping conditions mentioned in the sales document type have higher priority over the shipping conditions mentioned in the customer master record.

Hope this clears your doubt.

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Regards,

Allabaqsh G. Patil