Legal Control in Deliveries 

Use

Often a long time elapses between the creation of the sales order and the delivery. During this intervening period, the legal control situation may have changed. For example, the ship-to party may now appear on a boycott list. This function performs legal control on the delivery to ensure that they pass current legal control requirements.

In the delivery, the date of goods issue at the header level is important for legal control. The differences between legal control in the sales order and the delivery are

The system does not store the results in a separate segment because it performs legal control automatically during delivery creation, picking, packing and during goods issue if you made the appropriate settings in Customizing when you create a delivery on the basis of an order.

Because legal control is a physical goods check, the system must perform it when the goods are still at your plant. Thus the latest time when the system can perform legal control is when you post goods issue for the delivery. It is too late for the system to perform legal control at the time of billing, for example, when the goods have already left the plant.

See also

For more information on legal control in SD documents, see Legal Control in Sales Orders.