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.

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.

Window

Shipment
Shipments
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments

Related Window Descriptions

Shipment
Shipments
Consolidated Shipment
Consolidated Shipments

Procedure

To perform delivery in shipment:

1. Open the Shipment window or the Shipments window.
2. Retrieve the shipment for which you want to perform a delivery, by using the populate or query function.
3. In the shipment header, right-click and then click Deliver.

To perform delivery in the consolidated shipment:

1. Open the Consolidated Shipment window or the Consolidated Shipments window.
2. Retrieve the consolidated shipment, for which you want to perform a delivery for all connected shipments, by using the populate or query function.
3. In the consolidated shipment header, right-click and then click Deliver.

Note that delivery of a shipment can be done automatically in the shipment flow if the shipment type allows this.