We will explain the functionality using the following example. Delivery 80001234 contains item 10 with 10 pieces of the material MATERIAL. This material is packed in 2 cartons with 6 pcs and 4 pcs. Both cartons are contained in a crate. This information is to be verified by the external system.

Both packages, carton and crate, are available as materials CARTON and CRATE with material type PACK in the material master. In this way they can be used as shipping materials. The shipping material group INSIDE is assigned to the material MATERIAL; the shipping material group OUTSIDE is assigned to the shipping material CARTON. No shipping material group is assigned to the shipping material CRATE. Therefore it cannot be packed further.

The individual fields of the segments are to be filled as follows:

• E2VPACD

• E2VPACH

• E2VPACH

• E2VPACH

• E2VPACI

• E2VPACI

• E2VPACI

• E2VPACI

The fields EXIDV and EXIDV_OB contain the external identification of a shipping unit. These are required to assign the package contents uniquely. When data is verified, an internal system identification is assigned. Package weight and volume can be assigned to a shipping material. This information is used to make sure that each packaging used is appropriate. In the above example, the material MATERIAL has a gross weight of 0.5 KG, the shipping material CARTON has a package weight of 4 KG. Therefore, 6 pieces of MATERIAL can be packed into shipping unit VP1 (3 KG < 4 KG). The same view applies to the volume. Note that no measurements (width, height, depth) are checked.