You can use this report to select shipments that you want to check in. An employee at the dock door of the plant could select all shipments that are expected to arrive on that day, for instance, so that check-in can occur as the trucks arrive.

The check-in list is compiled using selection criteria. You can control which fields appear as selection criteria on the selection screen. The set of criteria that are displayed are determined on the basis of settings made in Customizing for Transportation. For more information about changing these settings, see the Maintain selection views for lists of shipments section in the online Implementation Guide. Criteria that is especially important for check-in include planned deadlines and service agents, for example.

You can select from two different views on the list screen. The first view list contains general shipping information for the selected shipment documents. You can switch to a second view of the list which provides you with information on the planned and actual deadlines for the documents and the status of the various transportation activities. You can access each shipment document from the list directly and perform the necessary shipment completion activities. There are various functions which enable you to pare down the list to exactly those documents you want to process. In addition, search and sort functions have been designed to help you access the information you need from the list. After you have made changes to a shipment document in the list and then returned to the list, you can use the Refresh function to update the list.

Every morning, an employee stationed at the dock door of the plant creates a list of all shipments expected that day. He or she uses the planned check-in date and status 1 (planned) as selection criteria for this list. When a truck arrives at the dock door, he or she consults the list, finds the relevant document and checks the truck in. During this process the truck’s license plate number and driver’s name are recorded. The system is configured so that a dialog box appears requesting entry of the license plate number and driver’s name as soon as the Check-in status is set.