Deliver Shipment
Explanation
This activity is used to deliver the shipment. When the
shipment is
delivered, connected source lines acquire the
Delivered status. The status can vary depending on the
source type.
You can perform a delivery on the shipment or on the consolidated shipment.
A consolidated shipment is defined as one departure of several shipments from
the specified site, to all the delivery addresses of the connected shipments.
This implies that a shipment connected to a consolidated shipment can only be
delivered from the consolidated shipment. This activity is only possible
if picking is reported and the shipment is already in the Complete status
for all shipments you intend to deliver. For a shipment, if you no longer
want to deliver the entire quantity picked, it is possible to adjust the picked
quantity before delivery in four different ways: removal of shipment lines,
reassignment of shipment line quantities, reassignment of handling units, or
adjustments in the shipment inventory. This means that the content of the shipment
is changed and the handling unit structure and the documents must be reviewed
again before delivery.
Note that delivery of a shipment can be done automatically in the shipment
flow if the shipment type allows this.
Prerequisites
- When delivering a shipment not connected to any consolidated shipment,
the shipment must have the Complete status.
- When delivering shipments connected to a consolidated shipment, all
connected shipments must have the Complete status and a shipment
cannot be delivered individually.
- For a shipment to be delivered automatically in the shipment flow, the
shipment type must have been defined accordingly.
System Effects
- The entire shipment will be considered as sent or delivered to the
receiver. Once
a shipment is delivered you cannot
connect any new
source lines.
- When a consolidated shipment is delivered all connected shipments are
considered as sent or delivered to the receiver.
- When shipments are delivered, the next event in the shipment flow will
be triggered if the shipment type allows this. Any optional events defined
to be executed at delivery in the shipment flow, will be triggered.
- For customer orders, when delivering an inventory part using delay cost
of sold goods to delivery confirmation, the cost of sale will not be recognized
at the time of shipment. Two new transactions will be created: DELCONF-OU
(M3/M1), and DELCONF-IN (M1/M3). When delivering a non-inventory part using
delay cost of sold goods to delivery confirmation, a transaction will not
be created when the parts are delivered.
- If sales overhead costs are registered for the part, separate cost of
goods sold (COGS) bookings are created: SALES-OH (Debit M194 - cost of goods
sold, sales overhead, credit M190 - sales overhead).
- When a shipment is delivered, transactions and other source specific
steps are triggered in respective sources.