Shipment building based on delivery points

Shipment building is the process that automatically creates shipments based on (picked) outbound advices.

The value of the delivery point is passed from Sales to Warehousing by the Delivery Point field in the Sales Schedule - Lines (tdsls3107m000) session. The delivery point is passed to the warehouse order outbound line when a schedule line is transferred to Warehousing.

These shipment building criteria are available:

  • Ship-from Type, Ship-from Code, Ship-from Address
  • Ship-to Type, Ship-to Code, Ship-to Address
  • Planned for Load Plan (Y/N)
  • Manual Shipment (Y/N)
  • Office
  • Office Company
  • Route
  • Delivery Terms
  • Point of Title Passage
  • Motive of Transport
  • Carrier
  • Planned Delivery Date
  • Delivery Point
  • Shipment Reference

Originally, in LN, the ship-to business partner and related ship-to address is the most detailed level at which the destination of goods is defined. However, often the premises of customers / Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) are huge and goods can be received at multiple delivery points. For efficient goods handling, the supplier / shipping company must know the specific delivery point at which the goods must be unloaded. This objective is achieved by adding delivery points to delivery addresses and including them as shipment building criteria.

LN groups the outbound advices that have the same Delivery Point as shipment lines in one shipment. You can use the Single Delivery Point per Shipment check box in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session to group the shipment lines by delivery points during shipment building. If this check box is selected, LN groups the outbound lines in the following manner :

  • Outbound lines that have the same delivery point are put on the same shipment, as shipment lines, provided other shipment building criteria allow this. Otherwise, outbound lines are put as shipment lines on separate shipments. This effectively means that the creation of multiple shipments for the same delivery point is permitted in specific cases.

  • Outbound Lines that have different delivery points are put on different shipments.

The following example explains the scenario in which shipments are created based on delivery points:

OrderPositionShip-to BPDelivery PointShipment
SSC00012310VWDock ASHP000234
SSC00012320VWDock BSHP000235
SSC00012410OpelDock ASHP000236
SSC00012510VWDock ASHP000234
SSC00012610OpelSHP000237

 

Freight Integration

In case a delivery point is present on an outbound order line and the Single Delivery Point per Shipment check box in the Warehousing Order Types (whinh0110m000) session is selected, the delivery point is passed to the corresponding freight order (if Freight is implemented). The Single Delivery Point per Shipment check box cannot be modified in Freight. In other words, Freight load building always follows the shipment building instructions from Warehousing. This implies that the planning engine in Freight builds separate shipments per delivery point instead of per delivery address, which may result in multiple shipments per unloading address within one load.

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