Purpose

Repeat delivery functions allow you to return material from a remote location to the base location for storage until you are prepared to receive the material. You use returns functions to send the material back to the base location. Once the material arrives at the base location it can be added to a new outbound delivery (or repeat delivery) and moved to a loading area, using functions within the returns document.

You can block the repeat delivery, using a hold flag on the returns document, and, if appropriate, on the original request document, which is usually a Plant Maintenance (PM) work order or a Project System (PS) network order. When you remove the hold flag, you unblock the delivery and it can be shipped back to the remote location. You can repeat the cycle of return delivery and repeat delivery as often as required.

Returns Document with Reference

You can create a returns document with reference to a PM order, a PS network order, or a transport requisition. A link is maintained between the material return item and the order component. This link is used to control the release of repeat deliveries. It is also used for navigation in the Material Tracking .

During configuration, you can choose whether or not the returns delivery or repeat delivery should be created with reference to a transport order. You can also specify whether or not a repeat delivery should be generated automatically upon shipment receipt, for a particular supply process.

Automatic Packing

A subsequent process function allows a delivery item to be packed into a default loading or holding area. The function selects a loading area or holding area automatically, based on a configuration that assigns a default loading or holding area to each RLM relevant plant and, where required, store location. Delivery items must be packed in a container. Therefore, the automatic packing function creates a unique container, with a container number that corresponds to the returns document number. This allows you to identify easily the repeat deliveries from a returns document, when you need to load them onto an outbound shipment.

Holding

A hold flag on the material returns item is logically linked to any reference document, including the PM order, PS network order, or purchase requisition. For material returns created with reference to a document, the hold flag on the reference document is set from the returns item when the returns document is saved. Once an item is created with reference, the hold flag cannot be changed in the returns item, but must be changed in the reference document itself. This changes the hold flag in the returns item in the same way as the delivery blocking is changed when releasing the hold flag from a PM order. In this way, the hold flag on the returns item always has the same value as that on the reference document. For manually created returns items, the hold flag will be set manually in the returns item.

Shipment Receipt

Shipment Receipt can call the repeat delivery process, after successful receipt of return deliveries.

You can use tracking program navigation functions to navigate from a PM order or a PS network order component to a material returns item and from material returns item to a repeat delivery item

Prerequisites

To use repeat delivery functions you must first create a returns document.

Process Flow

Once you have created a returns document, you can specify material items for repeat delivery.

On the Change returns document screen, select the appropriate material items and choose  Subsequent Process Delivery Return delivery.