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Function documentationMaintenance of Planned Shipping Handling Units

 

You can use this function of cartonization planning to carry out the following tasks:

  • Display the result of a previous cartonization planning

  • Change the result of a previous cartonization planning manually to handle exceptional situations, for example, if pick denial reduced the delivered quantity or delivery items are to be shipped with other transportation units

  • Simulate or carry out automatic cartonization planning for selected unpacked outbound delivery items, for example, to test different algorithms

    For more information about automatic cartonization planning, see Automatic Cartonization Planning.

Prerequisites

  • You have specified a work center layout for cartonization planning.

    For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Work Center Next navigation step Specify Work Center Layout End of the navigation path.

  • You have selected a work center layout for your warehouse number.

    For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Goods Issue Process Next navigation step Cartonization Planning Next navigation step Configure Cartonization Planning on Warehouse Number Level End of the navigation path.

Features

Selection of Outbound Delivery Items and Planned Shipping Handling Units

You can use the following selection criteria:

  • Organizational data: warehouse number

  • Planned shipping handling unit (PSHU)

    If you want to display a single PSHU, enter its ID. The ID must start with the prefix $_ followed by a number. You can skip the leading zeros.

    Example Example

    To select PSHU $_000000000000001234, enter $_1234.

    End of the example.

  • Outbound delivery orders and delivery items

  • Status

  • Waves

  • Partners: ship-to parties and carriers of the outbound delivery orders

  • Shipments: vehicles and transportation units

From the selection, you can exclude unpacked delivery items for which you have already posted a goods issue.

Application Log

You can activate the application log to store information about the execution of cartonization planning.

Activities

To maintain PSHUs, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Work Scheduling Next navigation step Cartonization Planning Next navigation step Maintain Planned Shipping Handling Units End of the navigation path.

On the selected delivery items, you can carry out the following activities:

  • Create PSHUs

  • Repack PSHUs

  • Repack products

  • Change PSHUs

  • Display stock data

  • Start automatic cartonization planning

    Select an unpacked delivery item with an open quantity greater than zero and choose Automatic Cart. Planning. The system automatically determines the algorithm profile for cartonization planning.

  • Simulate automatic cartonization planning

    Select an unpacked delivery item with an open quantity greater than zero and choose Test Cart. Planning. You can manually select the algorithm profile for cartonization planning.