Transportation Management with SAP LES

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Goods Issue
You can now make corrections to your delivery document. Depending on the
corrections you are making, you will also have to reset other activities (if you are
using WM, you can reset the transfer order using LT0G, you can empty and delete
handling units, etc.).
17.3 Retroactive Delivery Split
One task that is useful at several points of your shipping process, but which is
often performed shortly before goods issue posting, is the Retroactive delivery split.
There are several reasons for performing a delivery split retroactively. For example,
during loading you might notice that not all items fit on the truck and you will
have to leave behind some materials or load them onto a different truck.
One reason might be if you have too many items in your delivery document and the
goods issue posting cannot be performed. The database for the accounting document
only has three digits for item numbers. For each item in the delivery document, you
have at least two items in the accounting document, a debit posting and a credit
posting. If accruals are also being formed, there can be three accounting items per
delivery item. You can see how 350 or more items in a delivery document can cause
problems in the accounting document, making it impossible to perform the GI posting.
Cases like these can also require retroactive delivery splits.
While the delivery split may sound simple, unfortunately it is not a program that
is easy to understand and it does not always provide the result that you hoped
for. Therefore, I recommend that you only use the retroactive delivery split when
absolutely necessary. You can call the function with Transaction VLSP or via the
menu path: Logistics • Sales and Distribution • Shipping and Transportation
• Outbound Delivery • Change • Subsequent Outbound Delivery Split.
The outbound delivery split is used to split an existing delivery document into
at least two parts. While the original delivery document is retained, it no longer
retains the split items. The split items form at least one new delivery document.
17.3.1 Prerequisites for a Retroactive Delivery Split
The delivery split requires comprehensive Customizing settings that create a split profile.
It’s easy to see why this is required when looking at the conditions that must be
met for retroactive delivery splits. But first there are a few basic conditions:
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