Creating an Outbound Delivery and Pick-up a Printer for SAP S/4HANA Sales Distribution

We continue learning from James at Print2You and Susan at ACME Inc..

The Print2You company offers printing as a service to their customers. The product, printing as a service, is a subscription and is paid monthly. The hardware has two types: Standard and Premium models.

The monthly fee depends on the selected price models of Standard or Premium. Depending on the selected price level, the customer can consume a number of pages per minute, define the number of users, and opt for printing, copying and faxing functions. The service installation is free.

We have a delivery to the Ship-to-Party, ACME Inc., which will be shown in this lesson.

The following video will show you how James creates an outbound delivery, which is the next step after completing a solution order.

• The Create Outbound Deliveries app manages and displays sales orders due for delivery.

• Individual sales documents can be searched through the app, which are associated with specific sales orders.

• The process of creating a delivery entails selecting the sales document, creating the delivery, and viewing the analyzed delivery logs for shipment confirmation.

• A part of the picking process from the warehouse is documented and saved in the system, which includes the picked quantity.

• It's important to confirm the outbound delivery number after the picking process to complete the delivery.

• The equipment number, shown after Post Goods Issue, is necessary for tracking the usage of product according to a subscription contract.

• The Manage Solution Orders app is employed to cross-verify the actions taken during the order processing and confirm the successful completion of the delivery.

1. Create Outbound Delivery Document
   

   In the previous unit, we created a solution order item 10 which creates the sales order. We will find this sales order document in our solution order, which creates an outbound delivery with reference to this sales order item.

   Print2You then delivers the printer to ACME Inc., the designated Ship-to Party, found on sales order item 10.

2. Pick the Printer from Warehouse
   
   In the next step, the premium printer ordered by ACME Inc. is picked from the warehouse. The printer has a serial number which is assigned in the outbound delivery and recorded in the SAP system as an equipment number.
3. Post Goods Issue for Printer
   

   Now that the printer has left the warehouse, the Goods issue is posted by selecting the Post Goods Issue (PGI) button in the Change Outbound Delivery app.

   The equipment number found in the Sales Order is assigned to the subscription contract. Assigning the equipment number is important when mapping the usage of printed pages to the subscription contract.

   In our demo use case Printing as a Service, we use the equipment number of the printer as a technical ID in Subscription Billing and in usage records in order to assign usage to the correct subscription contract.