Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Goods Issue
Figure 17.7 Detailed Information in the Document Header
The document header only provides a few statistical details, that is, when, by
whom and at what date the goods issue document was created. The Trans./Ev.
Type “WL” is fixed and identifies this posting document as a goods issue posting.
Actual Goods Issue Date
You have the option to specify the date of the goods issue in the delivery document.
If there is a delay, for example, and you are unable to perform the GI posting
until a few days after, you can specify the actual goods issue date in the header
of the delivery document. This means that the material document has three dates:
the creation date (when your material document was created), the goods issue date
(when your materials left the plant), and the posting date (the posting period in
which your posting is made to the G/L accounts).
17.1.2 Performing Goods Issue Posting Collectively
In many cases, you may have many delivery documents per day for which you
want to perform goods issue posting. It would be too time-consuming to perform
posting individually for each of these delivery documents. Collective processing
is the solution if you need to perform goods issue manually for several delivery
documents simultaneously.
Selecting the Delivery Documents
Collective processing provides you with various options for selecting the delivery
documents for which goods issue posting needs to be performed (see Figure 17.8).
You can, for example, enter a shipment document number so that the system dis-
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