Define Delivery Types (SAP Library

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Define Delivery Types

In this menu option you define your delivery types which represent the different business transactions in shipping.

You have the following possibilities:

Change an existing delivery type.

Copy an existing delivery type and adapt it according to your requirements.

Create a new delivery type.

In this menu option you do not make specifications concerning the following functions:

Statistics

Output

Text determination

Route determination

Picking

You will edit these functions later in the respective menu options.

This means that the definition of a delivery type is only complete when you have edited all of these menu options.

In this menu you have to make or check the following specifications:

Delivery type

Specify an alphanumeric key for a delivery type that can have up to 4 characters.

Enter text to describe the key.

Document category

With the document category you allocate a document type to a certain business transaction. This way, an SD document is clearly identifiable, for example, as a delivery or a free of charge delivery.

Specify a single-digit alphanumeric key. The keys you may use can be found under "Possible entries".

Number assignment

Specify a number range for internal or external number assignment. To define a common number assignment for different delivery types, you have to specify the same number range in each case.

To do this, you must already have defined the number ranges. For more information on this subject, see the section "Define number ranges for delivery types" .

Increment of item numbering

Here you have to specify the increment of the item number assignment. Keep in mind that items you add when changing a delivery at a later date have to fit into the consecutive numbering system.

Sales order required

Here you define whether a delivery with or without order reference is concerned.

Default order type

Here you determine the dummy order type which is regarded as a default value if deliveries or delivery items do not have an order reference.

If you create delivery notes without order reference, you have to specify these control criteria for the system. In deliveries with reference to an order, the SAP System copies from from the document header of the sales document into the delivery header.

Requirements for an item independent of an order

You can include items without reference to an order, that is, items independent of an order, into a delivery. You can, for example, enter packaging materials later.

In the standard SAP R/3 System you can check for items independent of an order, whether goods issue and the billing document for a delivery have already been posted completely. If this is the case, you cannot include additional items in the delivery.

Transaction procedure

You can define the transaction procedure for a sales document type individually:

Group screen sequence header

Here you determine the screens which the SAP System should display for a certain transaction (for example, creating a delivery) and the sequence in which they are displayed.

Amount of data displayed for items

Here you determine the items to be displayed by the system during document processing, for example, you can limit the display to all selected items.

FCODE overview screen

Here you determine the overview screen which is to be displayed first during delivery processing after you have entered data on the initial screen.

The keys which you can used can be displayed under "Possible entries". At present, you cannot change the keys in Customizing.

SAP Recommendation

If you define your own delivery types, the keys should start with the letter Z since SAP reserve this name convention in the standard system.

If you define your own delivery types, you should copy similar delivery types defined by SAP and make the appropriate changes.

In this case, all specifications in the existing delivery type are copied. In particular, data, for example, concerning partner determination, or document flow is copied, which you do not edit in this menu option. As a result, you can test your new delivery types with regard to defaults set here without having to edit the other menu options.

When copying delivery types and item categories, the SAP System automatically creates a log with the copied data. Using the log, you can check whether all the copied data applies to your delivery type or whether you have to make changes.

Actions

If you only have to make insignificant changes to the existing delivery types, do so as appropriate.

Insignificant changes include a changed description, a different number range or another increment for item numbering. They refer to parameters that are not used for controlling purposes.

If you have to make further changes, define new delivery types. In this case, you can, for example, define different output controls for different delivery types. Alternatively you can define a separate delivery type for a new sales document type.