Transportation Management with SAP LES

Packing Proposal 8.4
You now have to plan the same functions for this item (plant and storage location
determination, relevance for goods issue, billing, and so on), as you would for a
normal item that you dispatch to your customers.
8.4 Packing Proposal
You are now familiar with the manual packing function in the delivery document.
You also have the option of defining packing instructions in the SAP system. In the
packing instructions, you specify how a certain material is packed. This does not
only depend on the material, but can, for example, also depend on the customer.
You may therefore have customers who want their materials delivered in wire
boxes, whereas you would normally deliver the same materials on Euro-pallets.
You can define these rules in the SAP system using packing instructions. However,
the SAP system cannot formulate any packing proposals if you always only pick small
quantities and produce mixed pallets for shipping. In the case of small quantities, packing
depends on what is be packed on the lowest level of the pallet, which materials are
at all stackable, how the individual materials or boxes fit together, and so on.
The picking order also frequently impedes automatic packing for small quantities.
To submit a packing proposal, you must take into account the picking strategies
and shortest path for picking the materials in the warehouse.
The extent to which your company will use packing instructions must depend on
your business process. If most of the time you ship complete load carriers, it might
be useful to map packing proposals in the SAP system.
To do this, you must carry out the following steps:
1. Make the required Customizing settings
2. Enter packing instructions in the SAP system
3. Enter the determination rules via the condition technique
8.4.1 Customizing Settings
Let us start with the Customizing settings. You must first specify which criteria you have
to define in the system in order to find packing instructions. In principle, these rules are
simple as the majority of them depend on the material itself and on the customer. The
criteria are grouped via a key, known as the combination of characteristic values.
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