Transportation Management with SAP LES

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(for example, how to determine the preliminary, main, and subsequent legs, and
how to determine load transfer points) on the shipping document and stages, and
conclude by explaining the shipment cost settlement.
Chapter 14, Shipment Status, describes how you can track individual steps in
transportation planning and processing using shipment documents. You can assign
different statuses to describe the end of a particular action (for example, the Loading
end or Shipment start statuses). Moreover, for each status, certain activities can
automatically be applied in the SAP system. This chapter explains how you can
configure these activities.
Chapter 15, Transport Papers and Documents, explains how to create these documents.
Because the processes involved are similar to those used for shipping documents,
this chapter will only cover the processes that are different.
Chapter 16, EDI and IDocs, covers the electronic exchange of data, which is increasingly
gaining importance. This does not only apply to EDI solutions with your
business partners. Many years ago, SAP already developed a standardized interface
to external application systems to provide a uniform and integrated platform for
external systems. I will explain how the IDoc interface works, and how the actual
IDocs are structured, and how IDoc processing can be started from delivery and
shipping documents. I will also discuss the monitoring function of the interface.
Chapter 17, Goods Issue, covers the last step in the shipping process. I will describe
the various options for carrying out goods issue postings of your processed delivery
documents, and will explain how you can cancel Goods Issue (GI) postings.
Often, a subsequent delivery split has to be performed shortly before the GI posting.
This chapter explains how you can do this and which conditions you must
meet to perform a split. Finally, I will briefly cover account determination.
The processes covered in this book are based on Release SAP ERP 2004 (ECC 5.0).
The book can also be used for Release 4.6C.
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