Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Picking
You can also define your own conditions: simply use numbers 500 to 999. After
entry of a condition, the SAP system generates a sample ABAP with the corresponding
name — LV07A500 to LV07A999 — that you can then program with
your special queries.
7.1.7 Entering Picking Quantities
The individual steps of picking are stored in a status in the delivery document. A
field in the delivery item stores the picking status and the delivery header stores
the overall status. If an item is completely picked, the picking status is “C.” If it
is partly picked, the status is “B.” If no picking activities have begun, the status is
“A.” The status remains empty for delivery items that are not relevant to picking.
In the context of a tolerance limit for over- and underdeliveries, the status can be
set to “C,” even when the entire quantity has not yet been picked.
The picked quantity is closely related to the status. The SAP status updates the
quantity if you use WM or lean WM. You must enter it manually if you do not
use either system.
If you have decided to enter the picking quantity in the delivery document manually,
you must proceed as follows.
Before you enter the picking quantity in the delivery document manually, you
can print a picking list for warehouse employees. But because you don’t have any
indication of the related storage bin yet, you must be satisfied with a simple picking
list that shows all of the materials to be picked with the desired quantities. For
more information on how to control the list, see Chapter 10, Transport Papers and
Documents. You simply have to select an appropriate message type or program a
list program for your own needs and control it with a new message type.
Employees can check off the individual items that they have picked on the picking
list. They must indicate any difference in the list so that the picked quantity can be
transferred to the delivery document later on. Start Transaction VL02N to change
the delivery document or follow menu path Logistics • Sales and Distribution
• Shipping and Transportation • Outbound Delivery • Change • Single Document.
The overview screen for changing the delivery document is displayed.
Select the Picking tab. An overview of the individual items from the viewpoint
of the picker is displayed. Now enter the quantities in the Pick quantity column
(see Figure 7.6).
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