Working with Outbound Deliveries

An outbound delivery document contains all the data required to trigger and monitor the complete outbound delivery process. It is the document representing the goods that to be delivered together to a goods recipient.

The outbound delivery process allows you to stage products in the staging bay and to post goods issue from the warehouse. The system determines a staging bay using the production supply area. The outbound delivery takes place in the following processes:

  • Processes in which the destination storage location is not an Extended Warehouse Management-managed (EWM) storage location, but an inventory-managed (MM-IM) storage location. The EWM system executes the staging.

  • Processes with a two-step stock transfer using two EWM-managed storage locations and two warehouse numbers, such as shuttle processes.

In SAP Inventory Manager, both of these outbound delivery scenarios are covered for an inventory-managed storage location and for a two-step stock transfer for a warehouse managed storage location.

The main outbound delivery document list provides the following information:

  • Total number of items in the delivery document list

  • Item number

  • Ship-to party

  • Document date

  • Total number of items in each collection

For each added outbound delivery document, you can:

  • Post the selected goods issue

  • Discard the selected goods issue

Outbound Delivery Documents with Warehouse Stock Enabled

The outbound delivery documents feature is supported at the warehouse level.