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Adjusting Automatic Determination of Relevant Fields for Outbound Delivery Creation

<div id="content"><img style="max-width:900px;max-height:none" class="image 1_1_landscape" title="An outbound delivery for a sales order can be created from a shipping point. This document is now the basis for picking and packing." alt="An outbound delivery for a sales order can be created from a shipping point. This document is now the basis for picking and packing." src="/service/media/S46100_26_en-US_media/S46100_26_en-US_images/S46100_U4_L1_IMG_01.png" tabindex="0"><div class="imageCaption"></div><p tabindex="0">Shipping activities follow sales activities.</p><p tabindex="0">SAP S/4HANA supports the following functions within the shipping process:</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Monitoring of deadlines for reference documents due for shipping (for example, customer orders and purchase orders)</li><li tabindex="0">Creating and processing outbound deliveries</li><li tabindex="0">Monitoring goods availability</li><li tabindex="0">Monitoring the capacity situation in the warehouse in WM and EWM</li><li tabindex="0">Support for picking (with a link to the WM system or to EWM)</li><li tabindex="0">Packing the delivery, which usually takes place in EWM</li><li tabindex="0">Printing and distributing shipping documents</li><li tabindex="0">Processing the goods issue, which usually takes place in EWM</li><li tabindex="0">Controlling (through overviews) deliveries currently in progress, activities still to be performed, and possible bottlenecks</li></ul><p tabindex="0">When a goods issue has been posted, deliveries are added to the billing due list. This acts as the basis for creation of a worklist for customer billing.</p></div>

Review of the Shipping Process

<div id="content"><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">See the following video to learn more about the determination of the delivering plant:</div></div><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="A video is shown about the determination of the delivering plant in SAP S/4HANA." class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_39tamnzi"></div></div></div>

Determination of the Delivering Plant

<div id="content"><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">See the following video to learn more about the use of shipping conditions in SAP S/4HANA:</div></div><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="A video is shown about the use of shipping conditions in SAP S/4HANA." class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_rhgwfq8p"></div></div></div>

Shipping Conditions

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How to Control the Origin of Shipping Conditions

<div id="content"><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">See the following video to learn more about the determination of the shipping point:</div></div><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="A video is shown about the determination of the shipping point." class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_hto2o7zr"></div></div></div>

Determination of the Shipping Point

<div id="content"><div class="section"><div class="simulationTile demo"><div class="content"><span class="simulationLabel">Demo</span><a href="https://education.hana.ondemand.com/education/pub/mmcp/index.html?show=project!PR_192B649151F3D096:demo" target="blank" class="simulationButton">Watch Demo</a></div><div class="simulationImage"><img src="/illustrations/simulation-demo.svg" alt="A demonstration is shown on how to reproduce the shipping point determination." class="no-zoom"></div></div></div></div>

How to Reproduce the Shipping Point Determination

<div id="content"><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody">See the following video to learn more about the determination of the route:</div></div><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="A video is shown about route determination in SAP S/4HANA." class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_9y9yimfg"></div></div></div>

Route Determination

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How to Reproduce the Route Determination

<div id="content"><div class="section"><div class="simulationTile demo"><div class="content"><span class="simulationLabel">Demo</span><a href="https://education.hana.ondemand.com/education/pub/mmcp/index.html?show=project!PR_1DE5B65B6AED9ABE:demo" target="blank" class="simulationButton">Watch Demo</a></div><div class="simulationImage"><img src="/illustrations/simulation-demo.svg" alt="A demonstration is shown on how to define routes." class="no-zoom"></div></div></div></div>

How to Define Routes

<div id="content"><div class="section"><p tabindex="0">This is part 1 of the exercise:</p><div class="simulationTile exercise"><div class="content"><span class="simulationLabel">Exercise</span><a href="https://education.hana.ondemand.com/education/pub/mmcp/index.html?show=project!PR_3FAFEB78D95E549D:uebung" target="blank" class="simulationButton">Start Exercise</a></div><div class="simulationImage"><img src="/illustrations/simulation-exercise.svg" alt="Part 1 of an exercise is shown on how to adjust the automatic determination of relevant fields for outbound delivery creation." class="no-zoom"></div></div><p tabindex="0">This is part 2 of the exercise:</p><div class="simulationTile exercise"><div class="content"><span class="simulationLabel">Exercise</span><a href="https://education.hana.ondemand.com/education/pub/mmcp/index.html?show=project!PR_FE4222294AE29886:uebung" target="blank" class="simulationButton">Start Exercise</a></div><div class="simulationImage"><img src="/illustrations/simulation-exercise.svg" alt="Part 2 of an exercise is shown on how to adjust the automatic determination of relevant fields for outbound delivery creation." class="no-zoom"></div></div></div></div>

Adjust the Automatic Determination of Relevant Fields for Outbound Delivery Creation

Configuring Delivery Processing in SAP S/4HANA Sales

The determination of the delivering plant in SAP S/4HANA is discussed.

S46100_U4_VID_1_FINAL.mp4

There is a priority sequence, which the system uses to determine the delivering plant for a sales order item. The system determines this plant for each item based on the following priorities:  1. Customer material information record; 2. Customer master of the ship to party, and: 3. The material master. Here you can see an example of the logic that was just described to you: This determination logic is hard-coded. If you wish to change it, you can use the user exit called: USEREXIT_SOURCE_DETERMINATION. If the system locates a customer material information master record, and a delivering plant is maintained in there, the system proposes this plant with the highest priority for the sales order item. If no customer material information master record exists, or if no delivering plant is maintained there, the system attempts to determine the delivering plant from the ship to party master record. If no plant is maintained in the ship to party master record, the system looks for the delivering plant in the material master record.

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The shipping conditions describe the shipping requirements for how goods are delivered to the customer. For example: your company might offer its customers a choice of express delivery or standard delivery. Some customers may choose express delivery to ensure their goods are delivered urgently, perhaps paying a surcharge for this, whereas others may be satisfied with a standard delivery, perhaps once per week. The field Shipping Conditions is sometimes also used to identify the type of transport to be used in delivery. For example: most of your company's orders may be delivered by road using a truck, while exports must be shipped using export containers. This would typically require two distinct shipping processes, each with its own team of responsible employees and also its own set of delivery lead times. Shipping conditions are stored at header level in a sales order. They are used in the determination of the shipping point, and also the determination of the route. The system determines the shipping conditions that are valid for a sales order based on the following priorities: first of all, the sales document type, and after that, the business partner (or customer).  In earlier releases of SAP S/4HANA the customer in this context was the sold-to party. The reason was that the shipping conditions represented part of the contractual agreement with the customer and were therefore associated with the sold-to party. However, not all SAP customers wanted to work this way, believing the field was more logically associated with the ship-to party. This processing has since then become more flexible. A field called Shipping Conditions from Ship to Party Master Record is available in the customizing of the sales document type. This field enables you to choose, per sales document type, from which partner, sold-to or ship-to party, you determine the shipping conditions. The following values can be entered in the mentioned field. Blank: Shipping conditions retrieved from the sold-to party. (this is the traditional logic). A: Shipping conditions retrieved from the ship-to party or B: Shipping conditions retrieved from the ship-to party, unless not maintained, in which case they are taken from the sold-to party. Again, this choice is made per document type.

Shipping point determination is discussed.

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The system determines the responsible shipping point for each order item. It automatically proposes a shipping point, but you can change the shipping point within certain limits. An outbound delivery is always managed by one shipping point only. The shipping point cannot be changed in the outbound delivery itself. The shipping point depends on the following criteria: the delivering plant, which is determined for each order item, and also the shipping requirements for which the field Shipping Conditions is used, and lastly, the required loading equipment maintained within the material master record using the field called Loading Group. If shipping conditions have been assigned to the sales document type, the system proposes these shipping conditions first. If not, the system proposes the shipping conditions from the master record of either the sold-to party or the ship-to party, depending on the settings in Customizing for the sales document type. The system does not copy order items with different shipping points into the same outbound delivery.

Route determination in both the sales order and the outbound delivery is discussed.

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The system carries out automatic route determination in the sales order for each item. Route determination depends on the following factors: the country and departure zone of the shipping point assigned in Customizing. The shipping conditions from the sales document type, or the master record of the sold-to party or ship-to party, depending on the settings of the sales document type. The transportation group, maintained in the material master, and the country and transportation zone of the ship-to party maintained in the customer master record. In the order item, you can manually overwrite the route determined by the system. You can determine the route again in the outbound delivery. This route redetermination takes into account the same four factors as used in the sales order, but additionally evaluates the weight of the delivery against a series of pre-defined weight groups. Use of route redetermination is optional, and is maintained per delivery type in Customizing.