Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Other Functions in Delivery Documents
Figure 6.31 Foreign Trade Data in the Material Master for Shipping
In addition to providing the data introduced here on foreign trade and customs
processing, you can perform other processes in your company, including Legal
control. Some materials may not be exported to specific countries and might
appear on embargo or boycott lists. The control occurs at the material or customer
level. If the checks are active, you might encounter a situation in which you cannot
create a delivery document. As noted, I cannot cover all of the possibilities here.
If you encounter an error message when creating delivery documents that has the
status of FTCn (where n stands for a number) and cannot process the document,
a legal control prohibits further processing. “FT” in the status stands for foreign
trade. It means that a foreign trade check was executed and that further processing
is not permitted.
You can use the sales order to see what kind of problem exists. Call Transaction
VA03 (display sales order) and follow menu path Extras • Export approval •
Log or Export control data from the toolbar. Here you can view the status of the
check for each item. If the light is green, the check was positive. In other cases,
it was negative. Highlight the item and click the icon. A pop-up appears (see Figure
6.32: the pop-up was added to the figure) in which you can quickly see which
foreign trade control led to problems.
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