Value-Added Services in Delivery Documents

Consumption of value-added services (VAS) in delivery documents is necessary for VAS information (data or item) to flow across logistics cycle like order-to-cash (O2C) or procure-to-pay (P2P) scenarios so that they can be applied to the articles before they are delivered.

Prerequisites

In the Customizing for Define Delivery Types for Fashion Management under SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution Shipping Deliveries , you have selected the VAS Active Flag to enable VAS determination option for delivery documents and assigned the Determination Procedure to the document type created using VAS condition maintenance.
In the Customizing for Define Item Categories for Deliveries in Fashion Management under SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution Shipping Deliveries , you maintain the VAS Determination Mode at the item category level.
In the Customizing for Specify Copy Control for Deliveries under SAP Implementation Guide Logistics - Execution Shipping Copying Control , you specify what data needs to be copied when a delivery document is created with reference to a sales document. In this Customizing, along with other data, you maintain a VAS related setting to decide whether VAS data needs to be copied from the sales order or fresh determination of VAS has to take place in the delivery document. Here, you choose between Do not copy VAS Data and Item and Copy VAS Data and Item, No new Determination.

Note Note

The item category and copy control customizing are the prerequisites only for outbound deliveries. They do not apply to inbound deliveries.

End of the note.

Features

Manual Entry of Value-Added Services in Delivery Documents

In addition to the option of defining value-added services as conditions, you can enter the VAS data manually in a delivery documents for line items. This is especially useful for a new customer who requests value-added services. Before you define conditions for such a customer, you probably want to see how business with this customer develops.

The manual entry of VAS data also makes sense for a customer who only requests value-added services occasionally or for one specific delivery, for customers who require differing services for each document, or want identical ticketing/labeling, packing or other services only for part of the items in the document.

You can maintain manual entries of VAS in the delivery documents using the VAS button. VAS item generation is not possible through manual entry in delivery documents.

Inbound Delivery

In case of inbound deliveries, VAS data or items are directly copied from purchase orders.

Outbound Delivery

VAS data or items are either copied to an outbound delivery document based on the settings in the customizing for copy control or fresh VAS determination takes place in the system based on the VAS conditions maintained.

The following are the possible scenarios:

When VAS data is not copied from preceding sales documents, and if the VAS Active Flag in order type is not maintained, and if the VAS Determination Mode is not maintained for item categories, then VAS determination will not happen inside the delivery document.
When VAS data is not copied from preceding sales documents, and if the VAS Active Flag in order type is maintained, and if the VAS Determination Mode is also maintained for item categories, then new VAS determination will happen and the VAS data will be determined in the delivery item. No VAS item will be generated in the outbound delivery even when Req Relevance is selected in the VAS conditions.
If VAS data or item is copied from preceding sales documents using the copy control customizing, VAS determination does not happen inside the delivery as copy control customizing has precedence over the order type customizing.

Deletion of VAS Data or Item

If VAS data or item has to be deleted in the dialog mode, you can do so using the VAS pushbutton. If a main item is deleted, then along with the main item, the corresponding VAS items are also deleted.