Delivering the Sales Order 

Use

As soon as the material availability date or the transportation scheduling date for a schedule line has arrived, the schedule line becomes due for shipping. When you create a delivery, you initiate shipping activities such as picking and transportation scheduling. You now create an individual delivery.

Procedure

Creating an Individual Delivery

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Shipping and Transportation ® Outbound Delivery ® Create ® Single Document ® With Reference to Sales Order

    Transaction Code

    VL01N

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Shipping point

    1000

    3000

    Selection date

    The material availability date or the transport planning date of the first item

    The material availability date or the transport planning date of the first item

    Order

    Your sales order number

    Your sales order number

    You can search for your order number, using the F4 input help. For more information, choose Match Code Usage.

  3. Choose .
  4. Select the delivery item, then choose .

    5. You now see the item details. On the Picking tab page, note the following:

    Field

    Description

    Pick. Stat.

    Picking status of the delivery item

    WM status

    Status of the Warehouse Management activities

    Whse no.

    Warehouse number/warehouse complex

    Stor.type

    Storage type

    Picking the Delivery

    You now trigger the picking of the delivery. This is achieved using a transfer order, which is generated as a subsequent function to the delivery. The transfer order is the basis for the picking list, which is used to withdraw the ordered goods from stock.

  5. Choose Subsequent functions ® Create transfer order.
  6. The system asks whether you want to save the data. Choose Yes.

    7. The delivery is saved.

  7. Enter the following data:
    8.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Warehouse number

    010

    300

    Delivery

    Defaulted

    Defaulted

    Foreground/background

    Background

    Background

  8. Choose .

    9. The system generates a transfer order for the picking of the delivery quantities.

  9. To display the individual picking list, choose System ® Services ® Output controller.

    10. The system generates a new session.

  10. Choose Further selection criteria.
  11. In the Further Selection Criteria: Select Spool Requests dialog box, in the Basic settings screen area, select Extended, then choose .
  12. Enter the following data:
    13.

    Field

    Europe

    North America

    Spool request name

    LVS2

    LVS2

  13. Choose .
  14. Select the entry, then choose .

    15. You now see a print preview of the transfer request.

  15. Choose System ® End session.
  16. Choose until the overview tree appears.
    17.

    Posting the Goods Issue
  17. As soon as picking is completed, you can post the goods issue for the delivery. The goods issue document for a delivery is a Materials Management (MM) and Financial Accounting (FI) document, which is used to update stock quantities and stock values. The system also updates a document for account-based Profitability Analysis. Goods issue ends the involvement of the shipping department in the business transaction. Call up the transaction as follows:
    18.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Sales and Distribution ® Shipping and Transportation ® Outbound Delivery ® Change ® Single Document

    Transaction Code

    VL02N

  18. Choose Post goods issue.

    19. The system confirms that the delivery has been saved.

  19. Make a note of the document number. You will need this to create the billing document.
  20. Choose until the overview tree appears.