The Goods Issue Process Based on the Delivery

Question 1

The Shipping Process

Answer 1

• Monitoring of deadlines for reference documents due for shipping
• Creating and processing outbound deliveries
• Monitoring goods availability
• Monitoring the capacity situation in the warehouse in WM and EWM
• Support for picking (with a link to the WM system or to EWM)
• Packing the delivery, which usually takes place in EWM
• Printing and distributing shipping documents
• Processing the goods issue, which usually takes place in EWM
• Controlling deliveries currently in progress, activities still to be performed, and possible bottlenecks

Question 2

Determination of the Delivering Plant

Answer 2

1. Customer-material information record
2. Customer master of the ship-to party
3. Material master

Question 3

Determination of the Shipping Point

Answer 3

• The delivering plant determined for each order item (from the customer-material information record, the ship-to party customer master record, or the material master record)
• The shipping requirements (for example, express shipping) in the Shipping Conditions field
• The required loading equipment within the material master record in the Loading Group field

Question 4

shipping condition

Answer 4

system proposes first from the sales document type. If not, the system proposes the shipping condition from the master record of the sold-to party.

Question 5

Route Determination

Answer 5

• The country and departure zone of the shipping point (assigned in Customizing)
• The shipping condition from the sales document type or the customer master of the sold-to party
• The transportation group assigned to the material
• The country and transportation zone of the ship-to party (assigned in the customer master record)

Question 6

Backward Scheduling

Answer 6

When you create an order, the system can determine the required material availability date based on the delivery date requested by the customer. The goods to be delivered must be available for shipping at that point in time.

Question 7

Transit time

Answer 7

Time required for shipping an outbound delivery to the ship-to party

Question 8

Loading time

Answer 8

Time required for loading the goods

Question 9

Pick/pack time

Answer 9

Time required for picking and packing

Question 10

Transportation lead time

Answer 10

Time required for organizing the transportation

Question 11

loading time and pick/pack time come from…

Answer 11

shipping point

Question 12

the transit time and the transportation lead time come from…

Answer 12

the route

Question 13

Forward Scheduling

Answer 13

If backward scheduling results in a date in the past, the system automatically performs forward scheduling, which confirms a new delivery date

The system also performs forward scheduling if the material is not available on the material availability date

Question 14

Precise Scheduling

Answer 14

Maintains the working times of the shipping point in hours to determine pick/pack time, loading time, and transit lead time

• .The factory calendar route is maintained in days for the Transit time
• The system calculates and displays the results of scheduling down to the minute.
• Pick/pack and loading times are specified in hours and minutes.

Question 15

Daily Scheduling

Answer 15

Does not have the working times of the shipping point maintained

Pick/pack time, loading time, transportation lead time, and lead time are all in

• The system uses days, hours, and minutes for calculation but only displays the resulting date.
• The system uses the factory calendar of the shipping point.

Question 16

shift sequence

Answer 16

defines the shifts for each weekday, and the shifts define the times for starting and finishing work.

Question 17

Route Schedules

Answer 17

organize outbound deliveries from a particular shipping point to different ship-to parties (for example, customer or subsidiary companies) that occur regularly in the same sequence for a certain route.

• A route
• A weekday as the departure date, along with a departure time
• A list of ship-to parties
• An itinerary (optional)

Question 18

Creation of Outbound Deliveries

Answer 18

if you create a delivery manually, you cannot deliver purchase orders or other requests.

If you use collective processing (delivery list), you can deliver goods for all types of shipping documents. In this case, the system automatically creates multiple outbound deliveries.

Question 19

Delivery Due List

Answer 19

a worklist of all operations requiring deliveries. You use various criteria to select the documents that you need to deliver using collective processing. Then, the system automatically creates the outbound deliveries.

Question 20

Delivery Scenarios

Answer 20

models a business process for delivering goods for orders that are due to ship

Question 21

Determination of the Picking Location

Answer 21

the system determines the storage location when it creates the outbound delivery and copies it into the delivery item

The system determines the picking location based on a rule defined in the delivery type.

Question 22

MALA

Answer 22

The system determines the picking location based on the shipping point, the delivering plant, and the material’s storage condition that you have defined in the material master.

Question 23

Change of Outbound Deliveries

Answer 23

You can change or add to delivery documents after you have saved them. For example, you could add items to the outbound delivery. These items may refer to other orders (deliver order function).

Question 24

Output

Answer 24

a communication tool that supports the exchange of information between you and your partners

Output can be sent from different objects such as an outbound delivery, a group of outbound deliveries, or a handling unit.

Question 25

Outbound Delivery Monitor

Answer 25

The outbound delivery monitor displays all deliveries that are still to be processed or that have been processed. The system displays a list of the selected outbound deliveries, and you can perform subsequent functions from this list.