Creating Shipment Stages Manually 

Procedure

You can use the following functions when you create a shipment stage:

Create a shipment leg

To create a leg in the shipment document:

  1. On the initial shipment screen or any of the shipment overview screens, choose Overview ® Stage overview.

    2. Choose Stage ® New stage ® Leg. You can now see how a location can be defined (entry of a transportation connection point, shipping point, customer, etc.) by looking at the Departure and Destination point data fields.

  2. Now enter the departure point and destination point (shipping point 0001 and customer K1, for example).

    3. This departure point must be defined as a transportation connection point in Customizing for Shipping.

    · The location definition must be unique, meaning that only one of the following fields should contain a value:

    – Transportation connection point

    – Shipping point

    – Customer

    – Plant

    – Vendor

     

    · An exception is made for transportation connection points that refer to shipping points, customers, plants, vendors, etc. In such a case, only the transportation connection point and the shipping point (for instance) may contain values. Except for the transportation connection point itself, all other fields are not available for entry and are only displayed.

    · Some fields are optional, meaning that they do not have to be maintained. They may only be maintained in the following situations, however:

    – Loading point: The shipping point must have been maintained

    – Storage location: The plant must have been maintained

    – Unloading point: The customer must have been maintained

    – Warehouse: The shipping point or the plant must have been maintained

    – Dock door: The warehouse must have been maintained

    – Additional info: can always be maintained

    · You can always maintain the address:

    – As a newly-defined, independent address without any other field having been filled in. Example: Delivery to a construction site

    – As an alternative address for an object (alternative customer address, for instance).

    After entering the locations and pressing a key, the entry fields for departure and destination point are automatically reduced in size, since now the Transportation planning point field may not contain a value for the departure point, for example, according to the above rules. You can make these fields available for input once again by either deleting the shipping point or choosing Change for the destination point.

    This screen compression serves to display only the important location information so that the lower data area remains accessible, even on small screens. Choose Address to change an existing location address or add a new one.

  3. Maintain other data about the stage on the various tab pages.
  4. The system automatically inserts the agent’s name in the header of the shipment document. Enter the name or number of a service agent in the Service agent field if you are working with an agent other than the one defined in the shipment header.

    5. Default values for the shipping type and leg indicator are suggested by the system depending on the shipment type, but you can change them if necessary.

  5. Maintain the planned and actual transportation deadlines if needed.
  6. Save your data.

To create another leg immediately following this transaction, you can choose Stage ® New stage ® Leg again from the details screen. This takes you directly to the entry screen for the next new leg.

The shipping document currently contains no scheduling. Planned deadlines on the leg level can therefore only be maintained manually.

The shipping document also has no distance determination. You therefore have to maintain the Distance field manually. If you still want to have an automatic distance determination function, you can activate customer enhancement V56DISTZ.

Creating a load transfer point

To create a load-transfer point in the shipment document:

  1. On the initial shipment screen or any of the shipment overview screens, choose Overview ® Stage overview.
  2. Choose Stage ® New stage ® Load transfer point.
  3. Enter the transportation connection point for the load transfer point.

    4. The same rules as for definition of a departure or destination point are valid for definition of a load transfer point.

    The specified transportation connection point must be classified in Customizing as a load transfer point.

  4. Enter the name or number of a service agent in the Service agent field if you are working with an agent other than the one defined in the shipment header.
  5. Maintain the planned and actual transportation deadlines if needed.
  6. In many cases, the costs calculated for a load transfer depend on where the shipment is being transported (load transfer at the harbor, for instance). If this is the case, you can define a destination point for a load transfer point by choosing Stage ® Load transfer point ® Define destination. A dialog box appears in which you can enter a destination point (following the same rules as for the load transfer point).
  7. Save your data.

Creating a border crossing point

To create a border-crossing point in the shipment document:

  1. On the initial shipment screen or any of the shipment overview screens, choose Overview ® Stage overview.
  2. Choose Stage ® New stage ® Boarder crossing point.
  3. Enter the transportation connection point for the border crossing point.

    4. The specified transportation connection point must be classified in Customizing as a border crossing point.

  4. Enter the name or number of a service agent in the Service agent field if you are working with an agent other than the one defined in the shipment header.
  5. Maintain the planned and actual transportation deadlines if needed.
  6. Save your data.