Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Delivery Documents
5.5.1 Shipping Conditions
When you hear the term shipping condition, you probably tend to think first of
the familiar incoterms (international commercial terms), such as FOB, CIF, and so
on. In the SAP system, however, the shipping conditions have another meaning.
In this case, they refer to special requirements that are made for the shipping of
goods, for example, whether the goods have to be sent in a refrigerator truck or
a thermal truck as they are sensitive to either heat or cold, or whether the goods
have to reach the customer quickly (express shipping).
Figure 5.54 provides an overview of the shipping conditions provided by SAP that
you can adopt for use in your company. If these do not suffice, you can also define
your own shipping conditions via Customizing.
You can enter the shipping condition itself in the distribution area data of the soldto
party (customer master data) in the Shipping tab. From here, this information
is transferred to the header data of the sales order. You can also assign the shipping
condition to the sales document type. This assignment can only be done via Customizing.
If the shipping condition has been entered in both places, then the assignment
to the sales document type has highest priority. To specify a shipping condition
via the sales document type can, for example, be a good idea if you have to
arrange the return transports for your returns orders. You could then find the
return transports again via a shipping point of your own.
Figure 5.54 Shipping Conditions in the Standard SAP System
If the shipping condition has not been entered in your SAP system, then no shipping
point determination can take place either. However, the shipping point is a
prerequisite for the creation of deliveries. In that case, you must make a compromise
in that you simply use shipping condition 01.
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