This book is the must-have resource for using SAP Logistics Execution System (LES) to efficiently manage your transportation and shipment requirements. In it you'll find detailed, practical information on all of your delivery process issues: from the creation of deliveries, to transportation planning, to settlements with your forwarding agents.

Using an ongoing example throughout the book, you'll learn how to create delivery and shipment documents, control picking, and transfer packing data, as well as how you can control shipments and how to post the goods issue. You'll also learn about interfaces to other areas, such as dangerous goods management, plus availability checks and much more. Finally, the author explains how you can overcome the limits of the standard SAP system by leveraging user exits. The practical, hands-on approach helps you master key transactions, paths, and best practices for transportation management that you'll be sure to reach for time and time again.

Based on Release SAP ERP 6.0, this book can also be used for older releases without any problem.

Highlights

• Organizational Structures
• Master Data
• Documents
• Delivery Documents
• Picking
• Packing
• Dangerous Goods Management
• Shipping Papers and Documents
• Status Tracking
• Shipment
• Shipment Status
• Transport Papers and Documents
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and IDocs
• Goods Issue

About the Author(s)

Othmar Gau has worked as an IT consultant and developer for SAP Logistics since 1997. He specializes on WM, SD, and LES Transportation Management and has developed real-world, hands-on solutions based on his experience.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction ... 17

2 Organizational Structures in Logistics ... 23
... 2.1 Logistic Organizational Structures ... 23
... 2.2 Warehouse-Related Organizational Structures ... 33
... 2.3 Organizational Structures in Sales ... 37
... 2.4 Summary ... 42

3 Master Data ... 43
... 3.1 Material Master Data ... 43
... 3.2 Customer Master Data ... 50
... 3.3 Vendor Master File ... 56
... 3.4 Batch Master Data ... 57
... 3.5 Dangerous Goods Master Data ... 59
... 3.6 Summary ... 61

4 Documents ... 63
... 4.1 Sales Orders ... 64
... 4.2 Purchase Orders ... 92
... 4.3 Summary ... 101

5 Delivery Documents ... 103
... 5.1 Task and Structure of the Delivery Document ... 104
... 5.2 Delivery Types and Item Categories ... 107
... 5.3 Creating Deliveries ... 115
... 5.4 Copy Control ... 138
... 5.5 Shipping Point ... 142
... 5.6 Routes ... 149
... 5.7 Goods Receiving Points ... 159
... 5.8 Availability Check ... 162
... 5.9 Delivery Combination, Delivery Split ... 171
... 5.10 Summary ... 175

6 Other Functions in Delivery Documents ... 177
... 6.1 Scheduling ... 178
... 6.2 Incompletion Check ... 185
... 6.3 Partner Determination ... 190
... 6.4 Texts in the Delivery Document ... 193
... 6.5 Export Data ... 202
... 6.6 Batches ... 207
... 6.7 Serial Numbers ... 224
... 6.8 Registration, Means of Transportation, and Persons ... 229
... 6.9 Summary ... 233

7 Picking ... 235
... 7.1 Picking Goods ... 235
... 7.2 Door, Staging Area, and Loading Point ... 244
... 7.3 Overdeliveries and Underdeliveries ... 251
... 7.4 Lean WM ... 254
... 7.5 Wave Picks ... 273
... 7.6 Summary ... 280

8 Packing ... 281
... 8.1 Packing Prerequisites ... 281
... 8.2 Manual Packing ... 291
... 8.3 Inventory-Managed Packing ... 301
... 8.4 Packing Proposal ... 305
... 8.5 Handling Unit Monitor ... 314
... 8.6 Summary ... 315

9 Dangerous Goods Management ... 317
... 9.1 Dangerous Goods Master Data ... 317
... 9.2 Basic Settings for the Dangerous Goods Check ... 321
... 9.3 Dangerous Goods Check in the Delivery Document ... 327
... 9.4 Dangerous Goods Check in the Shipment Document ... 337
... 9.5 Dangerous Goods Documents ... 342
... 9.6 Summary ... 345

10 Shipping Papers and Documents ... 347
... 10.1 Standard SAP Printouts ... 348
... 10.2 Output Determination ... 349
... 10.3 Output in the Delivery Document ... 357
... 10.4 Output Per Handling Unit and Group ... 363
... 10.5 Printer Determination ... 364
... 10.6 Summary ... 367

11 Status Tracking ... 369
... 11.1 Description of Statuses ... 369
... 11.2 Delivery Monitor ... 378
... 11.3 Summary ... 382

12 Shipment ... 383
... 12.1 Shipment Documents ... 383
... 12.2 Creation of Shipments ... 393
... 12.3 Selecting the Delivery Documents ... 404
... 12.4 Shipping Deadlines in Shipment ... 412
... 12.5 Partner Determination ... 414
... 12.6 Texts in Shipment ... 418
... 12.7 Routes ... 423
... 12.8 External Transportation Planning System ... 428
... 12.9 Summary ... 430

13 Other Shipment Functions ... 431
... 13.1 Packing ... 432
... 13.2 Stages ... 440
... 13.3 Shipment Cost Settlement ... 454
... 13.4 Summary ... 490

14 Shipment Status ... 491
... 14.1 Shipment Status ... 491
... 14.2 Activity Profi les ... 494
... 14.3 Summary ... 502

15 Transport Papers and Documents ... 503
... 15.1 Standard SAP Printouts ... 504
... 15.2 Output Determination ... 504
... 15.3 Output In Shipment Documents ... 507
... 15.4 Printer Determination ... 509
... 15.5 Summary ... 511

16 EDI and IDocs ... 513
... 16.1 EDI for Delivery Document ... 514
... 16.2 EDI for Shipment Document ... 516
... 16.3 IDocs ... 517
... 16.4 Errors in EDI Outputs ... 524
... 16.5 Summary ... 526

17 Goods Issue ... 527
... 17.1 Types of Goods Issue Posting ... 528
... 17.2 Cancelling a Goods Issue ... 536
... 17.3 Retroactive Delivery Split ... 540
... 17.4 Account Determination ... 548
... 17.5 Summary ... 553