Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Dangerous Goods Management
Identifying Countries for Determining the Validity Area
A validity area is required to read the dangerous goods master data. This depends
on the country. In this case, we differentiate between three categories of countries:
departure country, transit countries, and destination country. The dangerous goods
check is performed for a shipment for all countries involved.
The departure country is determined from the address of the departure point of the
first shipment leg (see Section 13.2), while the destination country is determined
from the address of the destination point of the last shipment leg.
Transit countries are determined from the address of each additional point. In the
following cases, however, the transit countries are determined from the transit
country table:
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There is no route in the shipment header.
There is a route in the shipment header but there are no route stages.
There is a route in the shipment header with route stages. The Take transit
country table into acc. checkbox is set in the route header.
The system first tries to determine the transit countries using all three criteria
(route, departure country, and destination country). If no entries are found, a new
attempt without a route is made to find the transit countries. These access attempts
are first performed with the route from the shipment header and the departure
country and destination country from the shipment legs (stages). If nothing is
found, the same is attempted with the departure country and destination country
from the shipment document.
Identifying the Shipping Type for Determining the Mode-of-Transport Category
In exactly the same way as for the delivery document, the mode-of-transport category
is required for the shipment document as an additional criterion to read
the dangerous goods master data. 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 country).
For the countries from the shipment stages, the route is assigned from the stage
itself. A distinction is made for the transit countries as to whether only an individual
stage or several stages are created in the shipment document. If you have
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