Operations (sales orders or purchase orders, for instance) are analyzed and delivered (transferred) for delivery creation according to their planned delivery-creation dates. The analysis gives you an overview of the work required. You can still make manual changes to the planned outbound delivery situation by using the selected delivery list (also called the shipping due date index or shipping due list). This may be used for the following operations:

• Manual selection of documents to be delivered from a larger delivery list
• Manual assignment of actual quantities to be delivered to delivery planning
• In the introductory phase of setting automated outbound delivery creation

Collective delivery of multiple documents in one step may be especially helpful in the following situations:

• If outbound delivery creation occurs regularly in the background. You can create rules for worklist creation in a user role for this delivery and work on the worklist regularly.

• If the length of time needed between creating the transaction and actual outbound delivery (picking, shipment completion) is longer than the time it takes for picking and scheduling.

• If multiple orders are to be combined into one delivery for a certain ship-to party.

Delivery of documents via collective processing is integrated into the following logistics chains:

• Sales order à Outbound delivery à Picking à Shipment à Billing
• Purchase order à Outbound delivery à Picking à Shipment à Billing/internal settlement

Operations that are planned for outbound deliveries (deliveries with a delivery list) are taken into consideration. This is currently the case for sales orders and purchase orders (stock transport orders and purchase order returns items). Taking sales orders as an example, the following criteria must be met:

• Quantity must be confirmed by the availability check of the material in the order
• Corresponding conditions for writing the delivery list must also be met

• Display them

• Select manually, using your own judgement
• Sort and filter
• Total the weights and volumes
• Display existing (open) deliveries for sales orders
• Go from the fast display to the document display and change the quantity to be delivered, if necessary
• Review the deliveries that have been created (view the delivery creation log)
• Go to document processing (sales order, purchase order, delivery)
• Delete deliveries

There are two different ways to process documents:

• Index processing
• Item processing

In index processing, documents that have at least one of the items due for delivery matching the criteria are selected and these documents and all of their items (regardless of if they meet the item criteria) are then delivered. This is the most efficient way to deliver planned deliveries to the customer on time.

You can use this processing form by making a list category setting (Index list) in the user role.

In item processing (list category = item list or schedule line list), only those items that meet the selection criteria are processed. Item processing is meant to be used for manual processing of the delivery list. You must check the consistency of all the items. Pay special attention to delivery groups, bills of material and material substitutions.