Delivery Confirmation
Purpose
The delivery confirmation process is used to confirm the delivery of actual quantities in a bulk shipment. The following diagram shows the underlying processes involved with delivery confirmation.
Delivery confirmation is the final step in processing bulk shipments. It enables you to enter the final quantities delivered and to process the differences between quantities delivered and loaded. Several options exist for processing product that has been loaded but not delivered.
Delivery confirmation must be completed for each vehicle in the shipment. The vehicles in the shipment each have an individual status, however, it is not until the shipment has a Shipment Status of 6 that shipment processing is complete and the final postings are made. Delivery confirmation is also a prerequisite for Shipment Costing.
Processes involved in Delivery Confirmation
Within the delivery confirmation transaction, there are several methods of confirming the delivery, depending on the level of accuracy required for the information, and the amount of time you wish to spend performing the process.
Rapid Delivery Confirmation does not require you to view the quantities delivered, and can be performed for one specific document or all documents within the shipment.
Fast Delivery Confirmation enables you to change the quantities delivered from those which are proposed.
The delivery confirmation process includes functions for handling unplanned deliveries, and several options for dealing with undelivered materials. You can enter delivered quantities manually or by using vehicle meters during delivery confirmation.
You can select the Final Delivery indicator to manually close a shipment and prevent further deliveries from being generated. You can set the Final Delivery Indicator in the
FD
field for each line item in the
Fast delivery confirmation
screen or for each line item in the
Document Detail
screen (from the
Document Overview
screen select
Goto
Document Detail
).
When you select the Final Delivery indicator and confirm the delivery, no further deliveries are processed for the shipment and the relevant sales orders and purchase orders are updated accordingly. At that point, no additional deliveries are possible for the order items. Subsequent documents, such as Goods Receipts are also generated when you set the Final Delivery indicator and perform delivery confirmation for the shipment. Deliveries that are automatically generated by
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
in the component
Materials Management (MM)
are also updated when the indicator is selected.
Process Flow
You enter the number of the shipment for which you want to create the delivery confirmation.
You can display the default data from loading confirmation in the delivery confirmation. It consists of the:
Vehicle number
Transport units for the vehicle
Driver
Delivery or deliveries for the shipment.
You can:
Enter the quantities actually delivered for each delivery item
Take into account unplanned deliveries
Account for balance quantities which remain in the vehicle as well as return quantities
Carry out rebranding of the material.
(Optional) you can carry out a fast confirmation of the documents without having to use detailed data.
You save delivery confirmation.
Results
After you have completed delivery confirmation, the shipment is fully processed and you can print the shipment documentation. A possible next step is to carry out Shipment Costing.
Procedure:
Creating/Changing a Delivery Confirmation
See also: