Report Shipping Order Bundles 

Use

This function allows you to send report shipping orders with the same shipping reason and communication type to the same recipient bundled together instead of separately. This therefore enables you to reduce shipping costs. Manually generated report shipping orders can also be bundled together.

The function module is created as a user exit so that you can define your own function modules for bundling.

Prerequisites

·        The shipping order has been successfully checked, and thus has status In work (IW) (see Report Shipping Status Network).

·        Bundling indicator

In Customizing for Product Safety under Specify Shipping Reasons, you have set the indicator for bundling. If the indicator is not set, the SAP system creates a separate bundle for each report shipping order.

·        Defining the bundling method

In Customizing for Basic Data and Tools under Manage User Exits, you can find the user exit EHS_BUNDLE of user exit category SRE_DIST.

·        Assigning the bundling method

In Customizing for Product Safety under Assign Names for User Exits, the user exit EHS_BUNDLE is assigned to the exit category BUNDLE in accordance with the communication type. The exit category BUNDLE defines the point in the program at which the user exit is called.

Features

Bundling Criteria

Whether a number of report shipping orders are bundled together does not just depend on the control indicator in the shipping reason, but also on whether the bundling routine is assigned to the communication type that was selected for this shipping reason.

In the standard system, report shipping orders are grouped according to the following criteria within one bundling method:

·        Recipient

·        Communication type

·        Report shipping order initiator

·        Business process

Bundling Organization

The SAP system collects all report shipping orders that were not rejected by the check routine. Using the bundling criteria, the system checks if bundles already exist to which these report shipping orders can be assigned.

If no suitable bundles exist, new bundles are created.

Bundling According to Bundling Criteria Recipient and Communication Type