Transportation Management with SAP LES

This chapter familiarizes you with sales and stock transport orders – the
basis for deliveries and transports. You will also learn how to find data
relevant to logistics and how the document and material flow of various
processes looks.
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In Chapter 3, Master Data, you learned which master data is necessary to map
processes in the shipping and transportation system. This chapter introduces you
to the transaction data you will have to deal with in your shipping and transportation
activities.
In classic IT terminology, the term transaction data refers to data that only has
temporary validity and only has a statistical character after expiration. The delivery
document is a good example. It is created to record the data for a delivery and to
accompany the flow of goods to the customer. Once the delivery is complete, the
materials have been posted out, and invoicing is completed, the delivery document
no longer has a meaning in the SAP system. It will only flow into statistics
and evaluations or aid in research for return queries of ship-to parties.
You, of course, have to deal with such transaction data in your shipping department.
Transaction data includes sales orders, delivery documents, invoices, documents
for goods movements, and so on. Among this transaction data, I distinguish
between data that is intended for the actual process sequence in shipping and data
that precedes these processes. It stands to reason that there must be a sales order
for the creation of a delivery document. If there are problems with the delivery
document and its functions, the causes must be sought in the sales order. The basic
data of a delivery document is already determined in the sales order.
However, in addition to sales orders, there are also transports that must be organized
between your branches. SAP software has developed the stock transport
order for this purpose. Although treated exactly like a sales order with regard to
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