Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Delivery Documents
stock transport orders due for shipping, while Transaction VL10I displays all
schedule lines for sales orders and stock transport orders due for shipping.
5.3.3 Creating Delivery Documents in a Batch
The third variant I want to present to you is the creation of the delivery documents
in batch mode. The batch mode is characterized by the fact that a batch job runs in
the background and can be scheduled. You can schedule a batch job periodically in
such a way that it starts automatically at certain times and on certain days.
Even though in many companies batch processing is scheduled not by the specialist
department but by the system administration or IT department, it is still
presented briefly here because the specialist department and not the IT department
is responsible for the correct selection and processing.
I also won’t go into great detail about list processing of batch runs as it is assumed
that you are already a little bit familiar with the spool of the SAP system.
You start the selection for the creation of delivery documents using Transaction
VL10BATCH or by selecting Logistics • Sales and Distribution • Shipping and
Transportation • Delivery • Create • Collective Processing of Documents Due
for Delivery • Plan Background Processing. The system displays a selection of
existing variants. However, for batch jobs, you must create your own variants. In
our current example, you can only see the variant we just created for screen processing
(see Figure 5.42)
Figure 5.42 Selection of Variants for Batch Processing for the Creation of Delivery Documents
First, I will demonstrate how you can create a new batch variant.
1. Click on the (Create variant) button.
2. You will be prompted in a pop-up to enter a name for this variant. In the ex ample,
I chose “BATCH AUGSBURG.” Click on the button.
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