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Function documentationProcessing of Direct Outbound Delivery Orders

 

If you want to use direct outbound delivery orders in any of the scenarios listed under Direct Outbound Delivery Order, on the SAP Easy Access screen choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Delivery Processing Next navigation step Outbound Delivery Next navigation step Maintain Outbound Delivery Order End of the navigation path and choose the function Create. Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) starts the standard goods issue process (see Goods Issue) and generates - if required - the necessary documents for billing and shipping.

Prerequisites

  • If you are using a corresponding SAP ERP. Only then does EWM give information about direct outbound delivery orders and perform an availability check. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Interfaces Next navigation step ERP Integration Next navigation step General Settings Next navigation step Set Control Parameters for ERP Version Control End of the navigation path.

  • You have assigned sales organizations. For more information, see Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management under Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Interfaces Next navigation step GTS Integration Next navigation step Assign Sales Organization to Warehouse Number End of the navigation path.

  • If you want EWM to perform automatic determination of the goods movement bin for delivery items that are not pick-relevant, you have defined the goods movement bin determination. EWM defines the goods movement bin depending on the following:

    • Document type

    • Item type

    • Warehouse number

    • Combination of the two product master attributes product group type and product group

    On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Extended Warehouse Management Next navigation step Settings Next navigation step Maintain Goods Movement Bin Determination End of the navigation path.

Features

For direct outbound delivery orders, all the functions are available to you that you can perform for outbound deliveries. The following list describes the additional functions or functions that vary:

  • You can also use direct outbound delivery orders for goods issue in the scrapping process (see Performing Scrapping).

  • You can delete a direct outbound delivery order in EWM. EWM only sends a deletion message for direct outbound delivery orders to SAP ERP.

  • You can add new delivery items with reference to a reference document to a direct outbound delivery order. EWM sends these added delivery items to SAP ERP, and SAP ERP copies these to the relevant SAP ERP outbound delivery. An availability check is also performed for the added items (see Availability Check).

  • If you want to increase the outbound delivery quantity of an item manually, and SAP ERP has already generated an item for this in the SAP ERP outbound delivery, EWM does not perform another availability check for the difference quantity. When you generate a new item or direct outbound delivery order, EWM can perform an availability check for this quantity.

  • If you want to reduce the outbound delivery quantity, you can do this directly in the direct outbound delivery order. In this case, no further availability check takes place. Only when SAP ERP copies the quantity change into the SAP ERP outbound delivery does SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) adjust its planned quantity.

  • When you generate a direct outbound delivery order from the user interface of the outbound delivery order, you can manually assign stock to a delivery item that does not have a picking status. Display your direct outbound delivery orders in the form view of the user interface of the outbound delivery order. Choose the input help for Goods Mvt Bin and look for a bin in which stock exists.

Constraints in SAP ERP

  • You cannot use credit management for direct outbound delivery orders.

  • The price determination in SAP ERP does not provide you with the same functions as the price determination in the sales order.

  • You cannot use any configurable products in direct outbound delivery orders.

  • You cannot perform billing in SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) for direct outbound delivery orders.

  • You cannot extend bills of materials in direct outbound delivery orders.

  • SAP ERP does not send messages for a direct outbound delivery order to EWM.

Constraints in EWM

  • If you are adding packing items to a direct outbound delivery order, EWM cannot perform an availability check for these new delivery items.

  • The kit-to-order process does not support direct outbound delivery orders.

  • Direct outbound delivery orders are not relevant for backorder processing in SAP APO.