Alternative handling unit structuresIn various industries, goods are picked from an anonymous stock, which means that no handling units are present in the stock, and moved to the staging area. At the staging area, final preparations are carried out to make the goods ready for shipment. Goods are packed in packaging materials such as crates and pallets. In this business scenario, handling units are created automatically during the confirmation of the pick. LN creates handling units based on the package definition of the warehouse order outbound line. The packaging definition defaulted at the warehouse order outbound line is usually a packaging definition which is applied for the item or item/business partner combination under normal conditions. At times there can be shortage of packaging materials. In most cases the shipment of goods cannot wait until the correct packaging materials are available. In practice, alternative packaging materials are used, for example, another type or size of box or another pallet can be used. This means that an alternative package definition or handling unit template must be used. For this purpose, on the appropriate menu of the Shipment Lines (whinh4131m000) session, select Handling Units and either of these options:
Both options are unavailable if:
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