The creation of the delivery note in SAP is the starting
point of the delivery process in warehouse.Delivery actually is the term used
to define the process in which the sales order information is passed to
warehouse in SAP and the quantities are mentioned in the delivery note.
There are some salient features that needs to be noted for delivery:
1. Changes to the sales order are generally avoided once the
delivery is created.
2. The delivery/deliveries are passed to warehouse in fixed
intervals in form of batches. The only exception being rush orders.
3. In SAP,it is very much possible to combine multiple sales
orders into a single delivery provided
the shipping is to same destination with same timeline and other factors like
address.
4. Manual or automatic process using the delivery due list
is responsible for creation of deliveries using sales documents.
5. In SAP outbound delivery can be created after fulfilling
certain criteria with reference to either
(i) Sales order
(ii) Stock transport
order
(iii) subcontract
order
(iv) project
(v) No reference
6. SAP has provided default delivery types for most of the
scenarios. For example,outbound standard delivery has delivery type LF, returns
delivery has type LR etc.The details can be checked in the SAP
system using the delivery tcode(VL03n).
7. Based on customer agreements, complete and partial
deliveries are permitted in SAP system. Combining of outbound deliveries into a
single group of delivery is also permitted.
8. A delivery output
is expected to have the following:
Billing of lading
Certificate of
Analysis(CoA)
9. The delivery output can be passed to the customer either
in printed paper or electronically.
10. Delivery due list is a
generated list containing information on all sales documents which are
due for delivery to customer with special emphasis on time and shipping point.
Deliveries for sales orders and purchase orders can be taken care in delivery
due list.
11.The overviews tab in delivery helps the users to monitor the outbound
deliveries.
12.Picking and Post goods issue are part of the delivery
process.
