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.
ExampleBill of lading