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. If loading has not progressed (Loading indicator of the consolidated shipment is in
Not Started state), 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. If loading has progressed,
this activity is only possible after finish loading the consolidated shipment (Loading indicator of the
consolidated shipment and connected shipments are in Finished state) and the shipments that intend
to deliver are already in the Complete status.
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. Please note that if loading
has progressed on either source shipment or the destination shipment (Loading indicator for the shipment is not in
Not Started state), reassign will not be allowed. Moreover, if the loading has finished (Loading
indicator is in Finished state for the source or/and destination shipments), removal of lines and
adjustments in the shipment inventory will not be allowed. This means that if loading has progressed, changing of
the content of the consolidated shipment as well as loaded shipments will be restricted in different levels at
different states in loading process. In addition, adjusting the picked quantity 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.
In addition, if the shipment type is configured to handle automatic receipt of Shipment Order, then after
Delivery a dispatch advice will be sent and the incoming dispatch advice will be received automatically. This is
especially useful when parts in a shipment should be picked up at sender and delivery and receipt should be
executed in one step.
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.
- When delivering a consolidated shipment, all shipments connected to the consolidated shipment must have the
Complete state.
- The loading must not be in progress i.e. the loading indicator must be either Not
Started or Finished.
- For a shipment to be delivered automatically in the shipment flow, the shipment type must have been defined
accordingly.
- A shipment with a temporary receiver, i.e.. same site as sender and receiver, is not allowed to deliver until
the connected Pickup Task work assignment has been started. At work assignment start, the receiver will be
automatically changed to the default remote warehouse for the task assignee. For such shipment, it is later
expected that the delivery should be triggered by the completion of the work assignment.
- For a shipment order to be automatically received after shipment delivery, setting Automatic
Receipt must have been enabled for used shipment type and message class DESADV set up on company level.
If the receiver is a remote warehouse, Default Receive Case for Inventory Part and matching
Default Location has to be configured. In order to receive a No Part, a default arrival location
must exist for the remote warehouse.
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.
- For purchase receipt return, when delivering an inventory part on return rework the transaction RETWORK
(M14/M1) and on return credit the transaction RETCREDIT (M14/M1) will be created. When delivering a non-inventory
part or a no part on return rework the transaction NRETWORK (M91/M92) and on return credit the transaction
NRETCREDIT (M91/M92) will be created.
- For shipment order lines with inventory part; when delivering intra-site the transaction SHIPODWHS- (M4/M1)
will be created, and when delivering inter-site the transactions SHIPODSIT- (M4/M1) and INTORDTR (M3/M4) will be
created. Shipment order lines with no part creates no transactions.
- 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.
- If Automatic Receipt is enabled then the Shipment Order is received and closed.
- If a loaded shipment is delivered, both 'Source Ref Type' and 'Source Ref 1' values of
handling units and their child handling units, that are connected to the shipment, will be moved to 'Handling
Unit History' Table. Then the source references will be modified as follows,