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Transportation Management with SAP LES

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The delivery document contains information that is required for the different<br />

steps in shipping processes. This chapter introduces you to this information:<br />

how it can be determined, what its functions are, and how you can<br />

manually intervene in processing.<br />

6 Other Functions in Delivery Documents<br />

The delivery document manages various data that supports employees in the shipping<br />

department and warehouse when they process logistics tasks. Such tasks<br />

include the determination of dates a step must begin for various shipping activities<br />

so that deliveries reach customers when required.<br />

Individual process steps depend on the data in the upstream document. If important<br />

information to start a process step is missing, incompletion checks notify the<br />

user of the missing data. The incompletion programs check specific fields for missing<br />

content and prohibit starting the downstream processes by setting a block.<br />

The delivery document itself requires partners. To find the correct partners that<br />

have any kind of involvement in shipping and transportation in the delivery document,<br />

partner determination is integrated <strong>with</strong> the <strong>SAP</strong> system.<br />

Free-form texts that employees can use to inform a customer or other employees<br />

about a matter are linked to the delivery document <strong>with</strong> word processing.<br />

Because you undoubtedly work <strong>with</strong> exports, your shipping and transportation<br />

processes must also be able to execute a few functions that are required only for<br />

export. Exclusively export-related information is also managed in the delivery<br />

document.<br />

Batch determination is a comprehensive topic <strong>with</strong>in shipping activities. If you<br />

have material that must be managed in batches, you must set your <strong>SAP</strong> system to<br />

define the point in the shipping process the batch should be determined and the<br />

criteria that the <strong>SAP</strong> system should use to determine the correct batch.<br />

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