Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Other Shipment Functions
Shipment Cost Document Header
The header of the shipment document contains information that is generally valid
for the entire document. In the header, you find the overall processing status but
also administration information (for example, who created and last changed the
document when) and reference data (to which shipment document does the shipment
cost document refer).
Because you can process different shipment types in the SAP system — for example,
individual shipment, collective shipment, and transportation chains (preliminary,
main, and subsequent leg) — you may also require different settlement procedures.
Therefore, the shipment cost document contains a shipment cost type at
the top level.
Technical Information About the Shipment Cost Type
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Field Length: 4 places
Path in Customizing: Logistics Execution • Transportation • Shipment Costs• Shipment
Cost Document • Shipment Cost Types and Item Categories (Define Shipment
Cost Type Folder)
Specific Transaction: T_56
Table: TVTF and TVTFT (language-dependent name)
The shipment cost type has general control parameters. On the one hand, they
define a document number range for the shipment cost documents, and on the
other hand, the status a shipment document must have before you can create a
shipment cost document (see Figure 13.34).
Figure 13.34 Control Parameters in a Shipment Cost Type
Items in the Shipment Cost Documents
The items of a shipment cost document contain the basic data that is required for
calculating the freight (see Figure 13.35). The data may be the forwarding agent,
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