Transportation Management with SAP LES

To carry out shipments, you need to print out information, such as bills of
lading, shipping orders, or loading lists. This chapter will present the system
settings that are required and explains how you can create and control
print outputs in shipment documents.
15 Transport Papers and Documents
Printouts are required to carry out shipments. Paperless organization and Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI) document transfer notwithstanding, statutory
requirements still sometimes make it necessary to provide the truck driver with
documents and papers. In the case of dangerous goods, for example, the driver
has to have an exact declaration of the materials loaded. Some countries require
loading lists that indicate which materials are carried in the different means of
transport (such as containers). But customers also claim loading and packing lists
to carry out better incoming goods inspections. Pallets are another example: Even
though the relevant data is transferred to the ship-to party by EDI, pallets still have
to have a label that uniquely identifies each one.
In the SAP system, a document (shipping order, CMR bill of lading, etc.) is referred
to as an output. Outputs are generated via the setting in the output determination
or control.
Chapter 10, Shipping Papers and Documents, already describes the complete output
control. This chapter will only detail the differences that you must consider when
you process outputs in shipment documents. The basis of an output is either the
shipment document or the shipment handling unit. There is a separate output
control process for each of these two objects.
The first section will look at the relevant Customizing settings in more detail. In
the second section, you will learn how to handle outputs in the shipment document;
in other words, how to create them manually, how to print them if required,
how to send them, and how to repeat them. The final section deals with printer
determination. Because these functions are very similar to those of delivery documents,
I will always refer to Chapter 10, Shipping Papers and Documents.
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