Receiving Shipping Notifs. via EDI (MM-PUR-GF-CON) (SAP Library

Receiving Shipping Notifs. via EDI (MM-PUR-GF-CON)

Use

Shipping notifications that you receive from your vendors via EDI confirm the delivery dates and quantities of materials set out in your previously issued scheduling agreement releases or purchase orders. (Note that outside SAP shipping notifications may also be referred to as "advance shipping notices" (ASNs), "ship notes", "advice notes", or "despatch advices".)

The receipt of a shipping notification from your vendor via EDI causes an Inbound Delivery to be generated in your system.

Prerequisites

Customizing and Application

To permit the generation of an inbound delivery on the basis of an incoming shipping notification, you must define a confirmation control key in Customizing for Purchasing under Confirmations ® Set up confirmation control (SAP transaction OMGZ).

You should set the following indicators in the confirmation sequence:

- MRP-relevant

- GR-relevant

- GR assignment

You must previously have assigned the relevant confirmation control key to a scheduling agreement or PO item (on the item overview screen).

IDoc Interface

The partner profiles of the IDoc interface must be maintained for vendors from whom you wish to receive shipping notifications.

You must have maintained the following fields in the partner profiles (Purchasing ® Messages ® EDI ® Set up partner profile):

Parameters for Inbound Messages
Field	Value
Message category	DESADV
Partner type	LI (vendor/creditor). In the ALE scenario (IDoc arrives from SAP system via tRFC): LS (logical system)
Process code	DELS (from Release 4.0, IDoc type DELVRY01)
Processing	Immediate processing
Authorized processor	Organizational unit (e.g. an SAP user)

Note

In order to test your settings, you can generate an outbound IDoc using the Test Tool and subject this to inbound processing in your system. For more information on this topic, refer to Sending Shipping Notifications via EDI.

Activities

When a shipping notification is received via EDI, the system creates an inbound delivery with its own system document. If the inbound delivery was classified as MRP-relevant via the confirmation control key, the notified quantity of the material is taken into account in the MRP procedure.

Note

Inbound deliveries generated automatically against shipping notifications cannot be changed manually in the PO or scheduling agreement. They can only be changed using the Change inbound delivery function.

For more information on inbound deliveries generated on the basis of shipping notifications received via EDI, refer to the MM Purchasing documentation (sections Confirmations from the Purchasing Viewpoint and Receiving Confirmations via EDI).