Definition

A document that enables you to send equipment, materials (resources) or packages with information on quantity and activity type.

Use

You can perform the following with a shipping document:

Send Equipment , material or a package to a usage site for the first time → acquisition

Send equipment, material or a Package from one usage site to another usage site → shipping

Change the activity type of equipment → Change of activity type

Send equipment from a usage site for the last time → retirement

Clearing a Usage Site

Reset delivery → park document

Transfer confirmed requirements from planning

Perform adjustment postings → inventory

Prerequisites

The equipment must be allowed for the document category “shipping document”.

The equipment can only be entered in a shipping document once.

The equipment type must have been assigned to an inventory management type (chronological inventory management, chaotic inventory management or no inventory management at all).

If you want to ship materials (see: Shipping of Materials ), you must have entered an Intermediate Recipient .

Structure

Header and item data

Data relevant to billing

General data

Document-specific data

All item detail data in the shipping document is passed as read-only to the BAdI /SAPCEM/SHIPDOC.