Transportation Management with SAP LES

Delivery Types and Item Categories 5.2
In order to represent different characteristics and process steps in the delivery
document, it is necessary to differentiate the delivery header and item by an identifier.
These are the delivery types and the delivery item categories.
5.2 Delivery Types and Item Categories
Delivery notes, also referred to as delivery documents, can carry out several functions
(for example, the delivery to a ship-to party, a returns delivery note, delivery
to a consignment store, etc.). In the same way, the position in the delivery document
can carry out different tasks (such as the delivery item, text item, batch split
item, etc.). To represent these functions, the delivery documents are differentiated
according to delivery types and the items according to item categories.
The delivery type has the function of mapping various business processes within shipping
processing. The most important business processes are shown in Figure 5.5. Each
delivery document is identified by a document number in the SAP system. This
document number can consist of a maximum of ten places. The number range of
this document number depends on the delivery type. Therefore, it is possible to
represent every delivery type with its own number range, without having the individual
number ranges overlapping. In addition, you can specify for each number
range whether it is generated internally by the SAP system itself (each document
number is increased by 1) or assigned externally by the user.
Number Assignment
Output Control
Permitted
Partner Functions
New Route
Determination,
if necessary
Delivery Note
Delivery Split by
Warehouse Number
(WM)
and Partners
Relevant for Creating
a Shipment
Permitted Texts and
their Copy Control
Figure 5.5 Processes Controlled by the Delivery Type
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