When you create shipments, you can use information relevant for transportation as selection criteria. For example, you can group together outbound deliveries with means-of-transport type "Truck" and means of transport "Small truck" into one shipment. In sales orders and/or deliveries, you can specify that the following information is relevant for transportation:

• Means of transport
• Shipping type
• Type of means of transport
• Special processing

In order to copy proposals for dates and times from the delivery, you must create a connection between the shipment dates and delivery dates. Copy routines serve this purpose.

The system uses the copy routine to copy data from sales orders into deliveries and then into shipments. In order for the system to do this, you must first carry out the following activities in the Implementation Guide (IMG):

Information relevant for transportation is copied from the order into the header of the outbound delivery, and thus supplies split criteria for outbound deliveries. For example, two order items with different shipping types, means of transport or means-of-transport types cannot be combined into the same outbound delivery.

However, information can be copied from the outbound deliveries into the shipment, provided it is unique data. You create a handling unit in the shipment for the means of transport (likewise only if this is unique). The copying takes place when you set the status "Planned". Here you must store an appropriate copy routine in Customizing for the shipment type.

The system also checks the capacity of the mode of transport in the delivery. If this capacity is exceeded, you will receive a warning message.

Since the means of transport can also be specified on the Pack screen, the means of transport entries in the sales order, delivery header and the corresponding packing information could vary. Changes made on the Pack screen have no effect on the transportation-relevant information in sales orders and deliveries.