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 Delivering Documents Due for Delivery

Use

As an alternative to Delivery of Individual Sales Orders in the foreground, you can deliver several documents at the same time.

Prerequisites

You can tailor the user roles and the delivery scenarios in the standard system to your needs in order to better adapt processing of documents due for delivery to your business processes. In order to make these adjustments, carry out the following steps in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Logistics Execution Next navigation step Shipping Next navigation step Worklists: End of the navigation path

  • Configure list profiles

  • Assignment of list profiles to delivery scenarios

Procedure

To process a delivery list in the foreground, proceed as follows:

  1. From shipping , choose Start of the navigation path Outbound Delivery Next navigation step Create Next navigation step Collective Processing of Documents Due for Delivery Next navigation step Delivery scenario of your choice End of the navigation path .

The Selection criteria entry screen appears, where you can select criteria according to which the delivery list is to be limited.

  1. Specify the shipping point for which you want to create the delivery. The system will propose a default value if you use user parameter VST.

  1. Set a range for the delivery creation date .

Normally, the default value for this field is defined for determination of the delivery creation date and can be specified in the user role.

The delivery creation date of a document due for delivery is a result of scheduling. It defines when a document must be created in order to keep the entire delivery on schedule, ensuring that the goods arrive at the customer's place of business on time. Time is also allotted for picking and transportation activities.

  1. Fill in the selection criteria that will be most helpful for you. Depending on which user role the delivery scenario is carried out with, different selection criteria (taken from the complete list) may be active. You can define which criteria appear in the user role and can be overridden (to some extent) on the User role tab page.

Note Note

The following selection criteria are important for performance in the following order:

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  • Shipping point

  • Delivery creation date

  • Delivery priority

  • Route

  • Forwarding agent

  • Goods issue date

  • Ship-to party

  • Document number

  1. Make sure that there is an entry for displaying the delivery list in the user role specifications in the function code profile.

  1. To start the search, choose Start of the navigation path Program Next navigation step Execute. End of the navigation path

The delivery list either appears or the system issues a message that no documents due for delivery meet the given selection criteria.

  1. Select the lines that you want to deliver and then choose Create delivery in background .

After you create deliveries, the Log for delivery creation function appears in the status bar of the delivery list. Use this function to check the deliveries that were created and the messages added to the log. The delivery items that were generated and their delivered items are displayed in item or schedule line processing mode. You can check the results of the delivery right in the delivery list.