Outbound Delivery Order
Definition
The outbound delivery order is a document containing all the data required for triggering and monitoring the complete outbound delivery process. This process starts with the first planning activities for the outbound delivery and continues until the finished goods have been loaded and sent.
Use
You either use the outbound delivery order to preview the planning of pending warehouse activities or to execute the actions required to create the delivery.
You can use the outbound delivery order to execute the following actions:
Creating the delivery and therefore creating an outbound delivery
Picking the delivery
Canceling the “delivery picking”
Loading the delivery
Canceling the “delivery loading”
Setting the status
Leave Yard
Adjusting the delivery quantity to the picked quantity
Posting a goods movement
Canceling a goods movement
Creating items
Deleting items
You can save, validate, delete and archive an outbound delivery order.
Structure
For a description of the structure for an outbound delivery order, see Documents in Delivery Processing .
Integration
The execution of the actions depends on the settings in the Post Processing Framework (PPF) .
The following configuration exists in the standard system:
The outbound delivery order is created automatically after activating the outbound delivery request . Here, all the relevant data is copied from the outbound delivery request.
One or several outbound deliveries are created from the outbound delivery order.
The outbound delivery order has the status
Locked (Preceding Document)
when only used as a preview for planning warehouse activities. This status is determined via the corresponding outbound delivery request from the reference document. In this case, you cannot create a delivery.