Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Dangerous Goods Management
Figure 9.14 Defining Transit Countries, Part 2 of 2
You can now maintain your transit countries here. Serially number the entries in the
column within a country (Counter column) because different shipping legs may be performed
in the transit country itself (preliminary, main, and subsequent leg). You maintain
these legs in the Leg ID column. You specify the sequence of countries passed through
with their leg indicators in the Sequence column. All that remains now is the indicator
in the Sea/air column. If sea or air traffic is involved, you can specify here whether the
sea/air traffic relates to the destination (ID “02”) or departure country (ID “01”).
Maintain all involved transit countries like this and save your entries.
The second case is easier: you did not define any stages in the route. The transit
countries are now generally read, regardless of whether the Take transit country
table into acc. indicator is set in the route definition or not.
A special case that occurs in determining the transit countries is if the shipment is
national (the departure country and destination country are the same). The transit
country table is only read in this special case if the Take transit country table
into acc. indicator is set in the route header.
Identifying the Shipping Type for Determining the Mode-of-Transport Category
Another criterion is required to read the dangerous goods master data — the modeof-transport
category. The mode-of-transport category is defined in the shipping
type (for more information, refer to Section 12.3). The shipping type must therefore
be determined for the dangerous goods check. You then assign this shipping
type to a country (departure, transit, and destination).
There are different cases, in turn, in determining the shipping type. In the first
case, you use a route with stages in your delivery document. You determine the
transit countries as explained earlier. If there is only one stage in the route, all
transit countries are assigned the shipping type from this stage. If the departure
country (from the shipping point) is not the same as the departure country from
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