Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Other Functions in Delivery Documents
Figure 6.14 Screen with the Missing Loading Point
This example serves only to indicate how you can define your own incompletion
procedure and assign a delivery type to it. In the real world, there is no connection
between the loading point and packing. And please note that SAP software
recommends that you do not modify standard entries. In this case, the correct procedure
would be to create a new delivery type (like ZLF) and link it to incompletion
procedure ZL.
User Exit
SAP supplies a user exit for the incompletion procedure: include module FV50UZXX. It
contains form routine V50UC_CHECK_SLLST. You can execute your own incompletion
check in this form routine. The include module contains the documentation and form
routine V50UC_CHECK_EXAMPLE contains sample coding.
6.3 Partner Determination
In the SAP system, partners are all of the persons, companies, customers, service
providers, and vendors that are involved in a business process in any way. In
shipping and transportation processes, partners include the contracting entity, the
ship-to party, the forwarding agent, and so on.
The data on the partners involved must be stored as master data. For a contracting
entity or a ship-to party, you must store the data in the customer master file.
For a forwarding agent, you must store the data in the vendor master file. These
partners play specific roles within the processes, like the ship-to party, forwarding
agent, and so on. The roles are identified with a role or partner identification (for
example, “SH” for ship-to party).
The partner functions were introduced, in detail, in the context of the customer
master file (see Section 3.2). This section will show you how you have to set the
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