Delivery Orders (SAP Library - Scheduling Agreements for Component Suppliers (SD-SLS-OA))

Delivery Orders

Use

You create a delivery order in the R/3 System from a pick-up sheet sent in by the customer. This can be done automatically from a pick-up sheet IDoc or manually.

The delivery order contains information detailing the material(s) to be picked up by the customer’s forwarding agent and the pick-up date and times. It is based on one or more scheduling agreements for delivery orders.

The pick-up sheet and its corresponding R/3 document, the delivery order, are used in a similar way to the just-in-time (JIT) delivery schedule.

Features

Since the delivery order has been modeled after the sales order, you can create a delivery order with the full range of sales order functions.

The R/3 System contains a sales document type and item category specifically for processing delivery orders:

Sales document type TAM
Item category TAMA

The following characteristics are specific to delivery orders:

The system sets the pick-up date as the delivery date. Although you can enter several materials in a delivery order, there can only be one "delivery" date for all of the items. You can view this date in the schedule line item detail.

The system sets the pick-up date as the pricing date in the sales overview.

There are special conventions for copying packing instructions.

In scheduling agreements with delivery orders, deliveries are created from delivery orders. To be able to copy packing proposals from the scheduling agreement to the delivery, you must first copy them to the delivery order.

In delivery order processing, packing proposals are either copied directly from the pick-up sheet, or you enter them manually. When you save a delivery order, the system determines if there are any packing proposals to consider.

If there are none, the system accesses the scheduling agreement and copies any proposals there to the delivery order. It only does this, however, when at least one of the following applies:

You have specified in Customizing that proposals are to be copied to the delivery

Choose Logistics Execution ® Shipping ® Copying control ® Specify copy control for deliveries and maintain the Data transfer ShUn (data transfer shipping unit) field.

There is a packing proposal for at least one other item in the delivery order

When the customer gives you packing instructions on one item in the pick-up sheet, they usually want all items in the pick-up sheet to be packed.

You can influence how the system copies packing proposals with a user exit.

You cannot use items that are not attached to a scheduling agreement for delivery orders. The different types of cumulative quantities used in delivery order processing require that they be recorded and updated centrally in scheduling agreements of this type.

The delivery order generates new requirements, which the delivery reduces from those generated by the related scheduling agreement(s).

Cumulative quantities in the scheduling agreement are based on the delivery order, not the delivery.

For a change of year, you can post cumulative quantities to another period by maintaining a date field in the delivery order header.

You cannot enter or change data in the delivery tolerance section for shipping (item detail). This is because the customer specifies in the pick-up sheet exactly how much of a material is required. It is this exact quantity that is, as a rule, delivered to the customer.