Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Delivery Documents
Partners such as customers, vendors, and internal company employees, must be
assigned to a delivery document. The function of these partners (for example, shipto
party, shipping company, special stock partner, responsible key account manager,
etc.) is referred to as the partner function. You can find the definition of the partner
function in Section 3.2. You must assign these partner functions to the delivery types
via Customizing. In addition to that, you must also specify which partner functions
in the delivery document are mandatory and which are not.
In Customizing, you must also specify what text types you want to permit for the
individual delivery types. For example, texts or instructions for picking would not
be necessary for customer returns.
During the course of the shipping process, delivery documents are combined into
shipments. You must determine, using the delivery type, whether it is sensible for
certain delivery types to be processed further in shipments. A consignment withdrawal
would not be shipment-relevant, for example.
You can configure the characteristics of a delivery type in Customizing. If you want
to define your own delivery types, you must copy an existing delivery type from
the standard SAP system. SAP software recommends that custom delivery types
begin with a Z. Figure 5.6 shows the functions that you can enter for each individual
delivery type. The settings are described in detail throughout the course of
this book.
Figure 5.6 Definition and Characteristics of a Delivery Type
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