Distribution Shipping

Purpose

This process describes the integration of the Advertising Management and Media Sales and Distribution components for distribution shipping.

Prerequisites

Distribution orders are to be entered in the Advertising Management component. Shipping of these orders is however to be managed in the Media Sales and Distribution component.

You have made the following settings in Customizing for integration between these components:

Setting

Menu path

Use

You have selected the M/SD active indicator.

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step General Settings Next navigation step Maintain General IS-M Control Parameters End of the navigation path

Define a distribution zone in the elements for the distribution basic booking units.

See also: Creation of Booking Unit Elements

You have selected the M/AM AI dist.active indicator.

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step General Settings Next navigation step Maintain General IS-M Control Parameters End of the navigation path

Distributions that were entered in the Advertising Management component can be managed in the Media Sales and Distribution component.

You have selected the DT deliveries indicator.

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Advertising Management Next navigation step Sales Next navigation step Order Next navigation step Sales Document Next navigation step Sales Document Item Next navigation step Define Item Categories End of the navigation path

The item category is relevant to production. This means you can generate deliveries in Media Sales and Distribution for distribution orders in Advertising Management .

You have entered a value in the Chk DT shp.prep . field.

Start of the navigation path SAP Media Next navigation step Advertising Management Next navigation step Sales Next navigation step Order Next navigation step Settings for Specific Next navigation step Sales Areas Next navigation step Make General Settings End of the navigation path

You have defined when the system informs you that the shipping lead time in the Media Sales and Distribution component is to be repeated and new deliveries generated.

You have created the distribution and shipping master data in the Media Sales and Distribution component.

To maintain a clear overview, this section only describes the settings that relate to distribution shipping. A general description of the sales and distribution master data is available in the documentation for the Media Sales and Distribution component.

See also: Distribution Master Data

See also: Shipping Master Data

See also: Geographical Structures

Ad inserts for distribution are shipped as separate publications.

The following settings in the Media Sales and Distribution master data are of particular relevance for distribution shipping:

Master data

Settings for distribution shipping

Distribution

 

Truck route/edition assignment

You have defined a valid and active assignment to publications of publication type 2 for the truck route involved. Do not enter any publication and edition for this assignment.

Delivery viabilities

You have defined an active and valid delivery viability for the distribution delivery type and delivery round in the distribution zone affected.

Unloading viability sets

You have defined an active and valid unloading viability set for the distribution delivery type and delivery round in the distribution zone affected.

Shipping

 

Bundling rule

You have created a bundling rule for each ad insert for distribution.

You have entered distribution orders in the Advertising Management component.

See also: Creation of Distribution Items

Distribution items have not been reserved, schedule lines in the items have not been cancelled, the item category is relevant to production and an ad insert has been assigned to the distribution item.

The system ignores any quantity information that was specified during entry of distribution orders in the Advertising Management component when it generates deliveries in the Media Sales and Distribution component if deliveries have not been changed or the system is not modified.

See also: Editing Deliveries for Ad Inserts

See also: Documentation for function exit Exit_RJVCLFRH_001 in enhancement JJVSIRH0

Process Flow

  1. Generate deliveries for advertising media that are distributed without reference to a carrying publication. The system will then set the Shipping started status characteristic in the schedule line status for the distribution items.

  2. You can perform this step prior to the shipping date.

    Your status concept should ensure that an item can no longer be modified if the Shipping started status characteristic has been set. Ensure that no status characteristic for the schedule line has a value lower than 50 once the delivery has been generated.

    You have entered the values 40 (not set) and 60 (set) for the Schedule line published status characteristic and the values 10 (not set) and 60 (set) for the Shipping started status characteristic. The Schedule line published status characteristic can only be set manually in distribution items. If you generate the delivery and do not set the Schedule line published characteristic manually, this characteristic retains a value of 40 and the item can still be changed once the delivery has been generated.

  3. Perform a quantity comparison to ensure that the distribution quantities to be calculated in the distribution order do not differ from the quantities delivered in Media Sales and Distribution .

  4. The system determines the quantities for distribution from the carrier route planned circulation quantity for the carrier routes delivered.

    See also:

    Quantity Comparison from M/SD

    See also:

    Quantity Comparison from M/AM

  5. Perform bundling and container packing for the planned delivery quantities in the distribution item.

You perform this step on the shipping date.

Note Note

It is not necessary to define an order deadline for the distribution item in order to manage shipping.

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Result

Shipping for distribution items has been performed. Distributions can be delivered and settlement can be performed for the carriers for your service.