1. You have an existing outline agreement with the customer, in this case a special scheduling agreement for delivery order processing.
2. On the basis of this scheduling agreement, the customer prepares data for a delivery and transmits it in a pick-up sheet to you (and the forwarding agent).
3. An Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) subsystem receives the incoming pick-up sheet and converts it to an intermediate document (IDoc), which is then stored in your R/3 System.
4. You create a delivery order from the IDoc. Information in the delivery order is supplied either by the IDoc or entered manually from the pick-up sheet. The system determines the related scheduling agreement from this data and generates schedule lines in the delivery order according to the customer requirements. The delivery order is processed in the same way as a standard order.
5. You create a standard delivery to prepare the items for pick-up. A delivery is created for each unloading point.
6. The customer’s forwarding agent picks up the materials at the scheduled time.
7. The delivery is invoiced. The customer refers to the pick-up sheet number in the billing document to settle payment.

The customer reports back in the next pick-up sheet the quantity received on the basis of the previous pick-up sheet. You update the cumulative quantities in the scheduling agreement accordingly and create a new delivery order.