Transportation Management with SAP LES

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ever, the status is displayed in plain text in the display screens, for example, “Not
delivered.”
A purchase order consists of a purchase order header and one or more items. General
data that is valid for the entire purchase order is stored in the purchase order
header, such as the address data of the vendor, the conditions worked out with
them, and so on. In the purchase order item, you can find the materials that you
ordered from your vendor and all associated data, such as the material number,
material name, purchase price and any discounts, the receiving plant and, if applicable,
the receiving storage location, a delivery address, and so on.
4.2.1 Stock Transport Order
Now that the basic structure of a purchase order has been examined, let’s look at
the special features of a stock transport order. Even if you yourself do not create
any stock transport orders in the shipping department, it will be very helpful if
you are familiar with this type of purchase order and know what to pay attention
to if there are problems in shipping.
Customizing Settings
In the previous sections there was no talk of data that you absolutely need to
create deliveries, such as customers, delivering plants, shipping points, shipping
conditions, routes, etc. Some settings in Customizing are necessary in advance to
close this interface between the purchase order (in the SAP environment, the
purchase order belongs to the MM component) and the delivery (which belongs
to the SD component). To better explain these settings, Figure 4.25 illustrates the
relationships.
If you order from one of your vendors, you are the receiving plant for the goods
your vendor sends. However, for a stock transport order, the receiving plant orders
from your company, the delivering plant. If we now look at the delivery, we
see that the ship-to party is the receiving plant and the shipping point is your
company, the delivering plant. Relationships between the purchase order and the
delivery must now be linked because this organizational shipping data is not available
in the traditional purchase order for performing the transport.
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