Transportation Management with SAP LES

Sales Orders 4.1
Document Types
As you can also see in Figure 4.1, there are different business procedures within
the individual sales documents. A sales order has a different document flow than
a free-of-charge delivery, even if there is no difference from a logistical point of
view. A free-of-charge delivery is usually not relevant to invoicing, that is, the
document flow ends with the delivery or goods issue posting.
In order to map and control all these processes in the SAP system, the different
transaction types are differentiated by different document types. The document
type in the SAP system controls which processes must take place for this transaction
type. For example, for the sales order there are the corresponding order types,
for delivery the delivery types, and for invoicing the invoicing types.
Status in a Sales Order
Every sales document within the process has a certain processing status. This status usually
refers to subsequent processes. For example, the sales order has a delivery and an
invoice status. You can see the meanings of the individual status values in Table 4.1.
Status
A
B
C
_
Meaning
Not yet processed
Partially processed
Completely finished
Not relevant
Table 4.1 Definition of the Document Status
If the sales order has delivery status C and invoice status A, this means that the delivery
of the sales order is completely finished, but no invoice has been sent. If the invoice
status were “_” (instead of A), this sales order would not be invoice-relevant. In this
case, no invoice is created.
For detailed information on the individual statuses, see Chapter 11, Status Tracking.
Application Areas of a Delivery
Even though shipping and transportation activities at many companies focus on
sales orders, there are also some other application areas that demand the shipping
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