Transportation Management with SAP LES

Packing Proposal 8.4
If you run the transactions, the Components tab appears (see Figure 8.39). The
top line represents the load carrier (for example, pallet). The next line displays the
material entered as a component — with the quantities for a full load carrier and
the minimum quantity. The rounding quantity provides information on the quantities
that make up one layer. The advantage of this is that the pallets are always
closed with a complete layer and can therefore be stacked.
A crate can hold 20 bottles and a pallet is made up of 5 layers, each with 8 crates. This
results in the following: There are 160 bottles per layer. Now enter 160 bottles as the
rounding quantity. If your customer now orders 400 bottles, the system proposes one
pallet with 320 bottles and another pallet with the remaining 80 bottles. This means
that you would fill two complete layers for the first pallet. You can now easily stack
another pallet on top of this.
Figure 8.39 Components of a Packing Instruction
A packing instruction also includes many additional tabs. The Admin. data tab
tells you who created this packing instruction and when. You can also specify the
check profile here, which tells you how to manage the packing instruction. You
can define language-dependent short texts on the Short Txts tab for each packing
instruction. On the Dim. tab, you can specify the dimensions and weight of a
complete pallet.
It is important to note here that the packing instructions are not only used by
Logistics, but also by Production. This is why all kinds of information are included
here that do not belong to processing in delivery or shipment documents. You may
have noticed that you can access the Customizing settings and the transactions in
both Logistics Execution and Central Functions.
In the packing instructions, you also have the option of specifying multiple packaging
(materials in the box, and the box onto the pallet). Whether this function is
of any use to you will depend on your particular business process.
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