Transportation Management with SAP LES

To plan and implement your shipments, you can trace the individual steps
(planning, loading, shipment completion, concluding). This chapter presents
the individual status information in the shipment document. It also
covers how automatic activities can be initiated when certain statuses have
been reached.
14 Shipment Status
Chapter 12, Shipment, and Chapter 13, Other Shipment Functions, presented the
individual functions that can be used to implement shipments. These functions
are executed for specific work steps. The status in the shipment document provides
information about the current status of the work steps, for example, planning,
check-in, loading, completing, starting, and concluding shipment. For this purpose,
additional evaluation functions that are very similar to the delivery monitor
(see Section 11.2) are provided. Using these, shipment documents that have
reached a certain status and have to be further processed can be selected.
The first section of this chapter describes the individual statuses. The second section
provides a description of the so-called activity profiles. In the SAP system,
activity profiles are used to define whether specific activities are implemented
when a certain status has been reached. This includes predefined activities, for
example, to create and implement specific output types in the shipment document,
define certain fields in the shipment document for entry in a pop-up window,
implement goods issue posting, or initiate billing. Which Customizing settings are
required to assign these activities to a specific status are also explained.
14.1 Shipment Status
In Section 12.4, scheduling individual work steps was explained (see Figure 14.1).
Here, the individual work steps are displayed that are concluded by clicking the
corresponding button to set the current status for the shipment document during
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