Intermediate consigneesVarious customers require their suppliers to ship their goods to an intermediate consignee, where the goods are repacked or redistributed before being sent on to the final destination at the customer's. All logistics, and, if applicable, tax and customs handling are taken care of by the customer. Process flow If intermediate consignees are applicable, the intermediate consignee code is transmitted from the customer (the OEM) to the supplier using EDI and the Schedule BOD. When the Schedule BOD information is transferred to LN, the intermediate consignee code is added to the sales release line details and then transferred to the sales schedule lines in Sales Control. From there, this code is transferred to the outbound-order lines and the loads in Warehousing. Because the intermediate consignee code from the customer's EDI message does not include an address, the intermediate consignee address from the Intermediate Consignees (tccom1161m000) session is added to the sales release line detail when the intermediate consignee code from the BOD is added to the sales release line detail. If the information from the supplier includes a ship-from warehouse, LN looks for a matching ship-from warehouse in the Intermediate Consignees (tccom1161m000) session. If found, the intermediate consignee that is linked to the ship-from warehouse in the Intermediate Consignees (tccom1161m000) session is used. See Ship-from warehouse determines intermediate consignee. Next, when the intermediate consignee information is transferred to the sales schedule line, LN checks whether the intermediate consignee code is specified for the sold-to or ship-to business partner. If not specified, that is, the customer sent an intermediate consignee code that is unknown to the supplier, the sales release cannot be processed. The user must manually specify a matching intermediate consignee code to continue processing. Setup Intermediate consignees are defined in the Intermediate Consignees (tccom1161m000) session. For each intermediate consignee, you must specify the address and the ship-to business partner, sold-to business partner, or both, who require their suppliers to use the intermediate consignee. If a customer has various locations, for example, production plants, and goods destined for these locations must pass through the same intermediate consignee, this setup is required:
Consequently, all ship-to business partners of the sold-to business partners can use the specified intermediate consignee. If not all ship-to business partners of the sold-to business partner use the same intermediate consignee, you must specify the relevant intermediate consignee for each ship-to business partner. Note If intermediate consignee codes are not provided by the customer through EDI, you can manually specify intermediate consignees in the relevant sessions in Sales Control and Warehousing. In these sessions, you can specify an intermediate consignee by zooming to the Intermediate Consignees (tccom1161m000) session:
Warehousing The intermediate consignee is used in load building to consolidate the goods that must be shipped to the same intermediate consignee. Freight In Freight, intermediate consignees are not supported. The pooling points provided by the Freight load building functionality are not used as intermediate consignees. Note For a Warehousing load that includes a shipment line based on a freight order, an intermediate consignee cannot be specified.
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