Order Combination
Implementation Options
You can group together entire orders, order items of different orders or partial deliveries of individual order items in one delivery but only if this has been agreed with the customer.
Prerequisites
Order combination can only be carried out if the orders concerned have the appropriate indicator in the order header.
The orders or the order items and schedule lines must have identical shipping criteria. This includes the following data:
Shipping point
Ship-to party
Incoterms
Sales organization
If you try to combine items that have different goods issue dates, you receive a warning message. You can ignore this warning message. The earliest goods issue date of all the items is selected automatically as goods issue date of the entire delivery.
Entering the Indicator
You can enter the indicator that makes order combination possible in two places:
In the customer master record, you can give a customer general allowance for order combination. The indicator depends on the sales organization, the distribution channel and the division as it is entered for a particular sales area.
You can specify that all orders for one particular customer can be combined by entering an
X
in the
Order combination
field on the
Shipping
screen of the customer master record. The indicator is copied from the customer master record into the order header.
You can specify manually that individual orders can be combined and then revoke the combination allowance later, if necessary. You can specify that orders can be combined by entering an X in the
Order combination
field of theShipping
tab page on theOrder Header
screen. If you want to block order combination, deselect this indicator (the checkbox should appear blank).
Process Flow
During delivery creation, you must distinguish between the following two situations:
Creating an individual delivery
You can manually add additional orders or order items to this delivery if the customer allows combination and order items fulfill the criteria for order combination.
Processing a delivery due list
The system automatically combines the order items in one delivery if the customer allows this and if the order items fulfill the criteria for order combination.
See also:
Information about creating outbound deliveries can be found in