Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Shipment
The special processing indicator must be entered manually in the sales order or
delivery document. You can store this indicator in the route (as for shipping types)
so that the indicator is copied to the shipment document. Note, however, that the
same route can also be found via other ship-to parties. You have to decide whether
the special processing indicator is also valid for this case. If certain customers
require a special processing for shipment, initiate another route determination
(special route only for this customer). Now, assign the special processing indicator
to this route.
In the delivery document, all fields in the delivery header are maintained in the
Shipment tab (see Figure 12.28). All three (strictly speaking, four) fields are displayed:
MnsTransTy, Ship.type, and SpecProcId. The fourth field is Shp.Cond.
Figure 12.28 Description of Shipment for Selecting Delivery Documents
So far, I have not had a customer that observed this SAP specification. In most cases,
a wide variety of indicators is used, shipping types are defined as shipping conditions,
special processing indicators as shipping types, and so on.
As only shipping conditions from the customer master can be predefined during
the entry of sales orders, and all other fields must be entered manually or via
user exits, you should consider carefully for which process steps the indicator is
required and what you want to control.
All of these indicators can be used to select your delivery documents or to create,
bundle, or separate your shipments. For example, if you have to plan a thermal
shipment, you can view all delivery documents due that must be processed using a
temperature-controlled truck. If you have to settle shipment surcharges with your
forwarding agent because special shipment requirements have to be met (truck
with a tail-lift), you can bundle shipments that have the same requirements.
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