You can create an allocation table referencing a shipping notification. This has the advantage that the quantities you are splitting up have been confirmed by the vendor.

You can only reference a shipping notification item if the order item has been flagged as being relevant to a stock split (the Allocation table relevant indicator in the additional item data). The indicator is adopted in the shipping notification item from the order item.

When you create an allocation table, you can select shipping notifications using a number of criteria:

• Shipping notification number
• Vendor
• Notified delivery date
• Person who created the purchase order
• Receiving site
• Article or merchandise category (any hierarchy level)
• Purchase order number

You can only refer once to a shipping notification item when creating an allocation table item. You select the items from one or more shipping notifications you wish to copy to the allocation table. The system then converts the shipping notification item to an allocation table item and all you have to do is enter the data specific to the allocation table.

You can enter a unit of measure that differs from the unit of measure entered in the shipping notification. If a conversion rule has been defined for the units of measure in the article master, the system automatically converts the quantity to the new unit of measure.

You cannot create a purchase order for an external vendor as a follow-on document for an allocation table item that you are entering referencing a shipping notification item. This is because a purchase order already exists in the system. Consequently, you can only use those item categories that do not allow purchase orders to be created as follow-on documents. Since goods are to be delivered from a vendor to a distribution center and then to the recipients, the system generates merchandise distribution data for these allocation table items.

Certain data from the shipping notification is set by the system in the allocation table and cannot be changed. This includes the article, vendor and distribution center numbers (the DC number is the same as the receiving site in the purchase order).