You create a delivery order in the SAP System from a pick-up sheet sent in by the customer. This can be done automatically from a pick-up sheet IDoc or manually.
The delivery order contains information detailing the material(s) to be picked up by the customer’s forwarding agent and the pick-up date and times. It is based on one or more scheduling agreements for delivery orders.
The pick-up sheet and its corresponding document in the SAP system, the delivery order, are used in a similar way to the just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedule.
Since the delivery order has been modeled after the sales order, you can create a delivery order with the full range of sales order functions.
The SAP System contains a sales document type and item category specifically for processing delivery orders:
Sales document type TAM
Item category TAMA
The following characteristics are specific to delivery orders:
The system sets the pick-up date as the delivery date . Although you can enter several materials in a delivery order, there can only be one “delivery” date for all of the items. You can view this date in the schedule line item detail.
The system sets the pick-up date as the pricing date in the sales overview.
There are special conventions for copying packing instruction s .
In scheduling agreements with delivery orders, deliveries are created from delivery orders. To be able to copy packing proposals from the scheduling agreement to the delivery, you must first copy them to the delivery order.
In delivery order processing, packing proposals are either copied directly from the pick-up sheet, or you enter them manually. When you save a delivery order, the system determines if there are any packing proposals to consider.
If there are none, the system accesses the scheduling agreement and copies any proposals there to the delivery order. It only does this, however, when at least one of the following applies:
You have specified in Customizing that proposals are to be copied to the delivery
Choose
Data transfer ShUn
(data transfer shipping unit) field.
There is a packing proposal for at least one other item in the delivery order
When the customer gives you packing instructions on one item in the pick-up sheet, they usually want all items in the pick-up sheet to be packed.
You can influence how the system copies packing proposals with a user exit .