Transportation Management with SAP LES

To transport materials safely, you have to pack your goods or move them
onto loading equipment, such as pallets. This chapter will provide you with
an overview of the options available in the SAP system for packing your
materials and how you can benefit from these.
8 Packing
The Packing function in the SAP system is being used more and more for shipping
and transportation processes. This is mainly due to the ever-increasing number of
new requirements for data exchange between suppliers and ship-to parties. The
ship-to parties attempt to optimize the receipt of goods. They receive an Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI) output with the pallet information and can use this to scan
and check the inbound goods the moment they are received.
EDI outputs, however, are also exchanged with the freight forwarder. If you register
a shipment with a freight forwarder, you can send this processing step to the
freight forwarder directly as an EDI output. To plan this shipment, the freight forwarder
requires information on the number of load carriers and their weight.
Using the Packing function, you are not only able to assign your delivery items in
the delivery document to a package, but you can also create packing lists. You can
use the print functions included in the SAP standard delivery for packing lists and
pallet labels.
If you use your packaging materials to manage stocks in the warehouse, you can
generate packing items in the delivery document once you have entered the packaging
materials. These packaging materials are cleared from your stock to the
goods issue posting. You can also bill your ship-to party for packaging materials
used in such a way.
8.1 Packing Prerequisites
Before describing the prerequisites for using the packing function, I first want to
introduce you to some of the terminology used in the SAP system.
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