Shipping Point Determination
The shipping point is the organizational unit that is responsible for shipping processing. If you sell physical products that must be delivered to the customer, when a sales order is created, the appropriate shipping point is automatically determined for each order item.
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The following diagram summarizes the shipping point determination logic.
Determination of the correct shipping point is critical, as the following functions are dependent on it:
- Delivery scheduling
- Route determination
- Delivery creation
From an organizational point of view, shipping points are assigned to delivering plants. The figure, Shipping Point Determination, shows the criteria that are used to determine the correct shipping point for each sales order item.
The loading group can be found on the Sales: General/Plant Data tab in the material master record. The shipping conditions is determined from the business partner master record (Shipping tab) of either the sold-to party or the ship-to party (depending on the Customizing of the sales order type). The plant is determined in the sales order from master data entries as previously indicated.
If no corresponding delivery document already exists, you can manually change the value of the automatically determined shipping point in the sales order.