Transportation Management with SAP LES

Incompletion Check 6.2
You have seen scheduling at a daily level of detail (forward and backward) and
looked at options for the related settings. You can also schedule to the minute, but
that capability will not be shown here. Up-to-the-minute planning is complicated
and can be affected by shift schedules.
6.2 Incompletion Check
To ensure a smooth flow of all steps within the shipping and transportation processes,
the shipping documents must contain specific information. If the information
is missing, certain processes cannot run. That’s why it’s advantageous to
notify employees of missing data when they work with upstream process steps.
You must decide if the missing data is relevant to all of the downstream processes
or only for certain subprocesses. For example, missing prices are unimportant for
creating the delivery document, but prices are crucial to invoicing.
For such cases, the SAP system offers you the option to activate an incompletion
check. The standard SAP system provides you with various preset variants that you
can adjust to the needs of your company. The system checks for the existence of
specific information at the level of the header and the item, information that is
important for the downstream processes. If the information is missing, the field
that contains the information is blank and the status of the document is set to
incomplete.
6.2.1 Incompletion Status Group
When information is missing, the user entering the sales order is notified that the
document is incomplete. The user can then decide to save the document anyway
or to enter the missing data. If the user decides to save the document, the system
blocks certain downstream processes based on the incompletion status group.
For delivery documents, the user receives a notification during the save, but a block is
set for downstream processes.
The status group provides information about which downstream processes are
blocked from further processing (see Figure 6.9). The downstream processes
include:
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