Determining Output in the Shipment Document 

Use

The output determination function enables you to perform tasks for shipping and transportation output for delivery and transportation processing with your customers and within your company. You can create shipment output and output for handling units. Staff members in your company can send messages. For example, the system automatically finds the message that a bill of lading is to be printed.

Integration

The output control checks whether the application data matches the condition records (that were defined in Customizing). If this is the case, one or several messages are "found", and they can then be processed (for example, sent electronically). The condition records are searched for during output determination on the basis of a predefined hierarchy.

The Output determination function is used in output control. You can use the output control function to exchange information with internal and external partners. Output control consists of the following functions that are described in the cross-application documentation CA – Output Control:

Prerequisites

For output determination, the condition elements and condition records need to be defined since the output determination runs using the condition technique.

In Customizing, you can define the conditions in which the output types you define will be selected. For more information on output control, see the Output section of the Implementation Guide.

Features

The system can propose output automatically for a document. You can change this output in the document.

Output determination occurs when:

See also:

For more information on output, refer to the following documentation:

Application

Documentation

Basis

BC – SAP Communication: Configuration

Cross-application functions

Output Control

SAP Business Workflow

You will find Customizing settings and examples in the above documentation.

Example

Bill of lading

  1. Output determination starts in V7STRA with output type CMR1 and the assigned access sequence.
  2. The access sequence defines the fields with which the key for the condition table is read. (for example, condition table B017: shipment type of the shipment is read)
  3. If the condition record is found, the system proposes an output with the output attributes found in the table.
  4. The output proposal (possibly not yet processed) is stored after the document is posted as an output status record in the NAST table.