Special Features for Outbound Delivery Objects 

Use

Depending on the outbound delivery object, route determination works differently to the function described under Route Determination in the Delivery. The differences for the individual outbound delivery objects are described below.

Features

Outbound Delivery Request

With route determination in the outbound delivery request, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) can execute a delivery split in different outbound delivery orders.

If you have activated route determination in Customizing, EWM attempts to determine a common route for all delivery items.

●      If route determination determines a common route, the system does not execute a delivery split.

●      If route determination cannot determine a common route, EWM reexecutes route determination. This time, route determination determines one route for every route-relevant delivery item (see Execution of Automatic Route Determination). If route determination determines varying routes for the delivery items, delivery processing creates an outbound delivery order for each route. In this way, you can, for example, transport heavy and also smaller products in two outbound delivery orders via separate routes within the same outbound delivery request. However, EWM always processes logically corresponding delivery items together (for example, because of Delivery Groups).

If you have deactivated route determination in Customizing, or if an external system manually specifies the route, route determination no longer determines the route. Route determination specifies the same route for all delivery items.

Outbound Delivery Order

Route determination in the delivery only finds a route for an outbound delivery order if you do not enter a route manually. If you manually enter a route, delivery processing only checks if the manually entered route is valid. The only exception is route determination in transportation cross-docking (see Route Determination in the Delivery, section Route Determination in Transportation Cross-Docking).

Route determination for an outbound delivery order does not take into account any delivery items that are already assigned to an outbound delivery.

Outbound Delivery

Delivery processing copies the route and the route status from the outbound delivery order to the outbound delivery, meaning that it does not execute route determination, nor does it check if the route is valid.

As soon as you change delivery item data or delivery header data that is route-relevant, delivery processing checks if the route is valid. If, however, you manually approve the route, delivery processing does not check the route (even with the data change described above).

If you change a route in the outbound delivery, route determination only adjusts the dependent data to the outbound delivery header. The dependent data of the delivery items remains unchanged.