Transfer of Delivery Dates to Shipments 

Use

You can have planned dates proposed in the shipment for the individual transportation activities. You can copy these from the outbound deliveries that belong to the shipment. You can use a copy routine to copy dates and times into the shipment document. There are two copy routine options: you can either accept the default copy routine or create your own copy routine.

Integration

In order to copy proposals for dates and times from the delivery, you must create a connection between the shipment dates and delivery dates. Copy routines serve this purpose.

Copy routines link shipment dates and times to previous documents, such as deliveries. In other words, date and time entries in the shipment can use date and time entries in previous documents as references.

Prerequisites

A copy routine must be set in the Implementation Guide (IMG) for copying the dates and times. You can choose a suitable copy routine as a standard default or create your own copy routine to use as a default in the Define shipment types activity under the path Logistics Execution ® Transportation ® Shipments.

Features

You can use this function to have the system propose shipment dates and times from the delivery. There are two methods to choose from:

When this indicator is set, dates and times are copied from deliveries into the shipment. There are a few rules that apply to standard defaults. First, the loading date and time in the delivery becomes check-in time and loading start in the shipment. The delivery's planned goods-issue time becomes the loading end, shipment completion and transportation start time for the shipment. If the goods-issue date and time (loading time) is unclear in the delivery, the latest goods issue date that appears in the delivery is copied into the shipment. The delivery date and time is copied into the shipment's transportation end.

When shipment planning is complete, set the Planned status. At this point, the dates and times are copied from the delivery into the shipment.

Activities

In shipment processing, choose Planning. Shipment dates and times appear as defaults. A dialog box appears, in which you can choose whether you want the system to copy the default dates and times into the shipment or whether leg determination should be re-run.