what is the shippement

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plse tell me about shippment process and its customizations

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Shipment is an essential element in the logistics chain. It affects both incoming and outgoing goods. Effective shipment planning and processing ensure that shipments are dispatched without delay and arrive on schedule. Transportation costs play an essential role in the calculation of the price of a product. It is important to keep these transportation costs to a minimum so that the price of a product remains competitive. Efficient transportation planning and processing helps to keep these costs down.

IntegrationAs illustrated in the following graphic, you can use the SAP transportation functions to plan and process:

Incoming shipments in Materials Management based on purchase orders and shippingnotifications

Outbound shipments in Sales and Distribution based on sales orders and deliveries

Transportation planning and processing is based on the shipment document. This document facilitates the flow of information from the shipper to the customer and to any service agents who are involved in the business transaction.

Features

The transportation component includes basic transportation processing functions:

Transportation planning and shipment completion

Shipment costs calculation

Shipment costs settlement

Shipment costs calculation for individual customers

Billing of customer freight

Service agent selection

Management of means of transport and utilities

Follow-up and supervision of shipments

Management of shipment costs

These transportation functions can handle planning and processing for both inbound and outbound shipments. You can control and monitor the entire transportation process from the planning stage to goods issue at your shipping point (for outbound shipments) or vendor location (for inbound shipments), through to goods receipt at the customer location or your plant.

Other available functions include: shipment costs calculation and settlement with the service agent, transfer to accounting, credit memo creation and invoice verification.

This documentation describes procedures in outbound shipment processing. Unless specifically stated otherwise, the information here also applies to inbound shipment processing. Differences between the two will be pointed out where necessary.

For information on creating and processing inbound deliveries, see the Confirmations section of the R/3 Library documentation for Purchasing (MM-PUR).

Here is the step by step to configure shipment or transportation planning

<b>Step: 1</b>

Maintain Purchase Organization

Path: Spro—Enterprise Structure—Definition—Materials Management—Maintain Purchasing Organization.

<b>Step: 2</b>

Create Purchasing Group

Path: Spro—Materials Management—Purchasing—Create Purchasing Group.

<b>Step: 3</b>

Maintain Transportation Planning Point to Company Code.

Path: Spro—Enterprise Structure—Definition—Logistics Execution—Maintain Transportation Planning Point

<b>Step: 3A</b>

Assign Transportation planning point to company code.

<b>Step: 4</b>

Assign Purchasing Organization to Company Code.

Path: Spro—Enterprise Structure—Assignment—Materials management—Assign Purchasing Organization to Company Code.

<b>Step: 5</b>

Assign Purchasing Organization to Plant.

Path: Spro—Enterprise Structure—Assignment—Materials management-- Assign Purchasing Organization to Plant

<b>Step: 6</b>

Create Vendor Account Group

Path: Img—Financial Accounting—Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables—Customer Accounts—Vendor Accounts—Master Data—Preparations for Creating Vendor Master Data--Define Account Group

Step: 8

Create Vendor

T-Code: XK01

Step: 9

Define Modes of Transport

Path: Spro—Logistics Execution—Transportation—Basic Transportation Function---Routes—Define Routes—Define Modes of Transport.

Step: 9A

Define Shipping Types

Path: Under the Same Menu path---Define Shipping Types

Select New Entries and Assign the Shipping Type (e.g. Road or Train) and Assign Mode of Transport (Mdtr) and Assign Shipping type Procedure group.

Step: 9B

Define Transportation Connection Point

Path: Under the Same Menu path--- Define Transportation Connection Point.

Step: 9C

Define Routes and Stages.

Path: Under the Same Menu path--- Define Routes and Stages.

Select the New Entries and Enter the Details

Then Select the Routes stages and define

Step: 9D

Maintain Stages for all Routes.

Path: Under the Same Menu path---Maintain Stages for all Routes.

Step: 10

ROUTE DETERMINATION

Define Transportation Zone

Path: Spro—Logistics Execution—Transportation—Basic Transportation Function---Routes—Route Determination—Define Transportation Zone.

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Step: 10A</b>

Maintain County and Transportation Zone for Shipping Point.

Path: Under the Same Menu path--- Maintain County and Transportation Zone for Shipping Point.

Select the Shipping point and enter the Country and Transportation Zone

<b>Step: 10B</b>

Define Transportation Groups.

Path: Under the Same Menu path---Define Transportation Groups

<b>step: 10D</b>

Maintain Route Determination

Path: Under the Same Menu path--Maintain Route Determination.

Select New Entries and Define the Route Determination.

<b>SHIPMENTS</b>

Path: Spro—Logistics Execution—Transportation—Basic Transportation Function—Shipments

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Step: 11</b>

Define Shipment Types

Path: Spro—Logistics Execution—Transportation—Basic Transportation Function—Shipments—Define Shipment Types.

Select the New Entries and define Shipment Type

<b>Step: 12</b>

Go to Customer master data.

In Address of General data. Enter the Transportation Zone id. and save

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