Transportation Management with SAP LES

At one time or another in every subprocess, it is necessary to print information,
such as labels for handling units, delivery notes, and packing lists.
This chapter describes the settings you need to make in the system to enable
printing, and explains how you can create and manage your printouts.
10 Shipping Papers and Documents
Printouts are required to complete individual tasks throughout the entire process
chain. Paperless picking and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) document transfer
notwithstanding, statutory requirements sometimes make it necessary to print
documents and papers. In the case of dangerous goods, for example, the carrier
has to have an exact declaration of the materials he is to carry. Printed documents
are also required for customs processing purposes in the case of export transactions
outside the European Union (EU). Pallets are another example; even though
the relevant data is transferred to the goods recipient by EDI, pallets still have to
have a label that uniquely identifies each one.
In the SAP system, a document (such as a delivery note or an export declaration) is
referred to as output. This chapter also uses the term output and avoids the terms
printout and document as much as possible. SAP software opted to use output
because the documents in question are not only printed, but are also transferred in
the form of EDI messages. EDI output has its own format, but is created by means
of the output determination function.
The output control function is based on the condition technique in sales and is
the same for all messages. The sole exception is the printing process for pick lists,
which was dealt with in Chapter 7, Picking. The basis of output is the delivery
document, the group, or the handling unit. There is a separate output control process
for each of these three objects.
The first part of this chapter will look at the relevant Customizing settings in detail.
Then, you will learn how to handle the output in the delivery document; in other
words, how to create it manually, how to print it if required, how to send it, and
how to repeat it. The final part of the chapter deals with printer determination.
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