Processing EDI from Shipments 

Prerequisites

See also: the “Prerequisites” section under EDI Processing for Dangerous Goods Data.

Procedure

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       1.      In the SAP menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Shipping and Transportation ® Shipment ® Create ® Single Documents.  

       2.      Create a shipment and select deliveries for which the partner connection has been entered and that contain at least one material in their delivery items, and a corresponding dangerous goods indicator profile has been set for the material in the material master.

       3.      From the overview screen for shipments, choose the Stages tab page.

       4.      You can enter shipment stages manually (Shp.type for stage field) or allow the system to perform leg determination. To perform leg determination, choose Leg determination.

       5.      Choose  Messages for Current Shipment.

       6.      In the Output Type field, enter SEDI (Trans.EDI: General) and choose  Enter.

The system completes the other fields with the data that belongs to this output type and current partner.

The status is set to Not processed.

       7.      Select the data record and choose Further data.

Check the entries under Requested processing and choose a new send time if necessary.

       8.      Choose  with the quick info text Back.

       9.      Save your entries.

Result

Generating an IDoc of Type SHPMNT03 or SHPMNT04

Example: Immediate Send Time

If you have set up send time 4 immediately (after posting the application) or send immediately (when saving the application), the system creates an IDoc of type SHPMNT03 or SHPMNT04 when you save your entries.

You can re-enter the shipment and check the status in the output screen. For more information, choose  Processing log.

Example: Specifically Requested Send Time

If you have set up send time 3 specific request, through application functions, for example or send with application own transaction, the IDoc is created by a specific request:

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       1.      In the SAP menu, choose Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Shipping and Transportation ® Communication/Printing ® Transportation Output.

       2.      Select the Shipment indicator and enter SEDI as the Output Type.

       3.      Choose  with the quick info text Execute.

The system lists the shipments that correspond to your selection criteria.

       4.      Select the corresponding shipment and choose  with the quick info text Execute.

The system creates an IDoc of the type SHPMNT04.

Checking the IDoc

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       1.      In the SAP Easy Access menu, choose Tools ® ALE ® ALE Administration ® Monitoring ® IDoc Display ® Display (transaction WE02).

The IDoc List screen appears.

       2.      Enter SHPMNT in the Logical messagefield as one of the selection criteria.

       3.      Choose  with the quick info text Execute.

For each IDoc, you can now use the Display IDoc function to display data for the data records transferred.