Transportation Management with SAP LES

1 Introduction ... 1

2 Organizational Structures in Logistics ... 23
... 2.1 Logistic Organizational Structures ... 23
... 2.2 Warehouse-Related Organizational Structures ... 33
... 2.3 Organizational Structures in Sales ... 37
... 2.4 Summary ... 42

3 Master Data ... 43
... 3.1 Material Master Data ... 43
... 3.2 Customer Master Data ... 50
... 3.3 Vendor Master File ... 56
... 3.4 Batch Master Data ... 57
... 3.5 Dangerous Goods Master Data ... 59
... 3.6 Summary ... 61

4 Documents ... 63
... 4.1 Sales Orders ... 64
... 4.2 Purchase Orders ... 92
... 4.3 Summary ... 101

5 Delivery Documents ... 103
... 5.1 Task and Structure of the Delivery Document ... 104
... 5.2 Delivery Types and Item Categories ... 107
... 5.3 Creating Deliveries ... 115
... 5.4 Copy Control ... 138
... 5.5 Shipping Point ... 142
... 5.6 Routes ... 149
... 5.7 Goods Receiving Points ... 159
... 5.8 Availability Check ... 162
... 5.9 Delivery Combination, Delivery Split ... 171
... 5.10 Summary ... 175

6 Other Functions in Delivery Documents ... 177
... 6.1 Scheduling ... 178
... 6.2 Incompletion Check ... 185
... 6.3 Partner Determination ... 190
... 6.4 Texts in the Delivery Document ... 193
... 6.5 Export Data ... 202
... 6.6 Batches ... 207
... 6.7 Serial Numbers ... 224
... 6.8 Registration, Means of Transportation, and Persons ... 229
... 6.9 Summary ... 233

7 Picking ... 235
... 7.1 Picking Goods ... 235
... 7.2 Door, Staging Area, and Loading Point ... 244
... 7.3 Overdeliveries and Underdeliveries ... 251
... 7.4 Lean WM ... 254
... 7.5 Wave Picks ... 273
... 7.6 Summary ... 280

8 Packing ... 281
... 8.1 Packing Prerequisites ... 281
... 8.2 Manual Packing ... 291
... 8.3 Inventory-Managed Packing ... 301
... 8.4 Packing Proposal ... 305
... 8.5 Handling Unit Monitor ... 314
... 8.6 Summary ... 315

9 Dangerous Goods Management ... 317
... 9.1 Dangerous Goods Master Data ... 317
... 9.2 Basic Settings for the Dangerous Goods Check ... 321
... 9.3 Dangerous Goods Check in the Delivery Document ... 327
... 9.4 Dangerous Goods Check in the Shipment Document ... 337
... 9.5 Dangerous Goods Documents ... 342
... 9.6 Summary ... 345

10 Shipping Papers and Documents ... 347
... 10.1 Standard SAP Printouts ... 348
... 10.2 Output Determination ... 349
... 10.3 Output in the Delivery Document ... 357
... 10.4 Output Per Handling Unit and Group ... 363
... 10.5 Printer Determination ... 364
... 10.6 Summary ... 367

11 Status Tracking ... 369
... 11.1 Description of Statuses ... 369
... 11.2 Delivery Monitor ... 378
... 11.3 Summary ... 382

12 Shipment ... 383
... 12.1 Shipment Documents ... 383
... 12.2 Creation of Shipments ... 393
... 12.3 Selecting the Delivery Documents ... 404
... 12.4 Shipping Deadlines in Shipment ... 412
... 12.5 Partner Determination ... 414
... 12.6 Texts in Shipment ... 418
... 12.7 Routes ... 423
... 12.8 External Transportation Planning System ... 428
... 12.9 Summary ... 430

13 Other Shipment Functions ... 431
... 13.1 Packing ... 432
... 13.2 Stages ... 440
... 13.3 Shipment Cost Settlement ... 454
... 13.4 Summary ... 490

14 Shipment Status ... 491
... 14.1 Shipment Status ... 491
... 14.2 Activity Profi les ... 494
... 14.3 Summary ... 502

15 Transport Papers and Documents ... 503
... 15.1 Standard SAP Printouts ... 504
... 15.2 Output Determination ... 504
... 15.3 Output In Shipment Documents ... 507
... 15.4 Printer Determination ... 509
... 15.5 Summary ... 511

16 EDI and IDocs ... 513
... 16.1 EDI for Delivery Document ... 514
... 16.2 EDI for Shipment Document ... 516
... 16.3 IDocs ... 517
... 16.4 Errors in EDI Outputs ... 524
... 16.5 Summary ... 526

17 Goods Issue ... 527
... 17.1 Types of Goods Issue Posting ... 528
... 17.2 Cancelling a Goods Issue ... 536
... 17.3 Retroactive Delivery Split ... 540
... 17.4 Account Determination ... 548
... 17.5 Summary ... 553