shipping point

[Former Member]

Hi,

What is meant by shipping point, and can we have more than one shipping points assigned to a single customer, and how and where the assign the shipping point

[Lakshmipathi · Accepted solution]

Dear rakesh

Shipping points are independent organizational entities within which processing and monitoring of the deliveries as well as goods issue is carried out. A delivery is processed by one shipping point only.

Criteria for Proposing a Shipping Point

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

This plant is determined per order item either from the customer master record or from the material master record. However, you can also enter it manually for each order item.

You can only carry out delivery processing for the items in a sales order for which a shipping point has been defined. If different shipping points have been assigned to the various items in a sales order, the deliveries have to be processed for each shipping point.

If you create a delivery for a sales order that contains several shipping points, the system reacts as follows:

• If you create an individual delivery, you receive a note in the log that the items with different shipping points have not been included in the delivery.

You can view the log by choosing Edit -->Log.

• If you process a delivery via the delivery due list, no note is entered in the log. When you process the delivery due list, the system only informs you of errors that occur during processing.

If the customer requests complete delivery of the sales order, it does not make sense to define different shipping points for the order items since this would lead to the sales order being split into several deliveries.

thanks

G. Lakshmipathi

[Former Member]

Hi Rakesh,

Shipping pts is the location from where the physical product or virtually service is shipped.

e.g. Laptop is produced from one plant X1 but will have 3 shipping pts viz., Y1 for Air, Y2 for Sea and Y3 for road. This is because the way the unit is transported will have different physical location from where the unit will get dispatched. We can have same shipping pts for all the modes but genrally business prefer different for ease of work.

Now shipping pts are never assigned to customer. Shipping pts are assigned to plants.

Shipping pt determination happens through Plant + Shipping conidion + Loading group.

Plant determination happens at three levels --> Customer material info record (VD51) or Customer master (XD01) or material master (MM01). Now if we have different shipping pts for customer or assign it to customer then we will define plant assignment at CMIR or CM. Then according to customer shipping condition we can fix the shipping pt to it.

Hope this clariifies shipping pt and its relation to customer.

Kind regards

sandeep

[Former Member]

hi rakesh

• The responsible shipping point is determined for each order item.the system automatically proposes a shipping point , which we can change within given limits.

The shipping point Depends following criteria

The delivering plant that is determined for each order item( from CMIR,Customer master of ship to party or material master) The shipping requirements (for example, express) contained in the Shipping Conditions field

The required loading equipment contained in the Loading Group field in the material master

*The shipping condition is proposed from the sales document type if a shipping condition has been assigned to it. If not, the shipping condition is proposed from the master record of the sold-to party.

*An outbound delivery is always issued from one shipping point only. The shipping point cannot be changed in the outbound delivery.

*When an order is processed for delivery by the shipping point, the system only copies into the outbound delivery those order items that are defined for this shipping point.

Order items with different shipping points are therefore not copied into the same outbound delivery.

with regards

Rajkumar

Edited by: Raj Kumar on Mar 8, 2008 12:00 PM