Transportation Management with SAP LES

Sales Orders 4.1
Now save the standard order. The SAP system either informs you of the order
number or provides information on incorrect or missing entries.
The system should now be set so that all important information for planning the
delivery is provided. Next, I will cover where you can find this information based
on this standard order.
Shipping-Specific Data in the Sales Order Header
You learned at the beginning of the chapter how a sales order is structured. Let’s
have a look at this standard order. You can go directly to the overview screen via
Transaction VA03. The shipping-specific data can be found in the Shipping tab. In
Figure 4.8, various blocks are marked for you: the calculated total weight and volume
of this order, the overall status and the delivery status (the various statuses are
dealt with in more detail in Chapter 11, Status Tracking), the various dates for an
ordered item (the dates are treated in detail in Section 6.1), the plant, the shipping
point, and the route for each individual item.
Figure 4.8 Overview Screen with Shipping Data
You can reach the header data by selecting Goto • Header • Shipping from the
menu. The screen that appears contains the following data (see Figure 4.9):
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Unloading Point
This field specifies the unloading point where the goods are to be delivered to
the ship-to party. The unloading point is either suggested by the system on the
basis of the customer master of the ship-to party or can be specified manually.
Receiving point
The unloading point at the ship-to party can be subdivided further into receiv-
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