Processing EDI from Shipments 

Prerequisites

See also: The Prerequisites section under EDI Processing for Dangerous Goods Data

Procedure

  1. Choose Logistics ® Sales and distribution ® Transportation.

    2. Create a shipment, and select deliveries for which the partner connection has been maintained and which contain at least one material in their delivery positions, and a corresponding dangerous goods indicator profile has been set for the material in the material master.

  2. Choose Overview ® Stage overview from the overview screen for deliveries.

    3. The Overview: Stages screen appears. Here, you can enter transport stages manually, or have the R/3 System carry out leg determination.

    For further information on shipment stages, see Help ® R/3 library ® LO - Logistics ® SD - Sales and Distribution ® Transportation ® Shipment Stages.

  3. Choose Header ® Output.

    4. In the Output type field, enter SEDI (EDI shipment: general), and choose ENTER.

    The R/3 System completes the other fields with the data that belong to this output type and current partner.

    The status is set to unprocessed.

  4. Select the data record, and choose Edit ® Further data.

    5. Check the data under Requested processing, and define a different send time, if necessary.

  5. Choose Back and save your entries.

Result

Generating an IDoc of type SHPMNT03

Example: Immediate Send Time

If you have set up send time 4 (immediately after posting the application), the R/3 System creates an IDoc of type SHPMNT03 when you save your entries.

You can re-enter the shipment and check the status in the output screen. For further information, choose Goto ® Processing log.

Example: Specified Send Time

If you have set up send time 3 (specific request, through application functions, for example), the IDoc is created by a specific request:

  1. To do this, choose Logistics ® Sales and distribution ® Transportation, and then Output ® Shipment.

    2. Select the Shipment field, and enter SEDI as output type.

  2. Choose Program ® Execute.

    3. The R/3 System lists the shipments that correspond to your selection criteria.

  3. Select the corresponding shipment, and choose Edit ® Process.

The R/3 System creates an IDoc of type SHPMNT03.

Checking IDocs

  1. Choose Tools ® Business framework ® ALE ® Development, and then IDoc ® IDoc Basis, and then IDoc ® IDoc lists.
  2. Enter SHPMNT in the Logical message type field as selection criteria.
  3. Choose Program ® Execute.
  4. The IDoc lists screen appears. Position the cursor and choose Goto ® IDoc list.

For each IDoc, you can use the IDoc display function to display data for the data records determined.